Be in the know. 27 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Verizon Expects a Big Year for 5G—and Potential Price Hikes (Barron’s)
  2. AT&T’s CEO Says the Stock Is Undervalued. (Barron’s)
  3. SoftBank to Back Steven Mnuchin’s $2.5 Billion Private Equity Fund (Barron’s)
  4. China Evergrande Reaches Deal on Key Domestic Bond Payment. What That Means. (Barron’s)
  5. Fed Meeting Ends Today. Look for Clues on Taper Timing, Interest-Rate Liftoff. (Barron’s)
  6. Evergrande Crisis Isn’t a Lehman Brothers Event That Will Take Down the Market (Barron’s)
  7. Big Tax Changes Are Brewing What You Need to Know. (Barron’s)
  8. The Bond Market Has Had a Historic Bull Run. Here’s What We’ve Said About It Over the Years. (Barron’s)
  9. SoftBank to Back Steven Mnuchin’s $2.5 Billion Private Equity Fund (Barron’s)
  10. 5 Things to Know About the Democrats’ Tax Proposals (Barron’s)
  11. Powell’s Taper Tightrope Could Be Complicated by Fed ‘Dots’ (Wall Street Journal)
  12. SEC’s Gensler Doesn’t See Cryptocurrencies Lasting Long (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Russia’s New Gas Pipeline to Germany Delivers More Power to Moscow (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Uber Says First Adjusted Profit Possible This Quarter (Wall Street Journal)
  15. FedEx Earnings Reflect Labor Shortage, Supply-Chain Woes (Wall Street Journal)
  16. China’s Regulatory Storm Risks Triggering Wider Economic Damage (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Global Traders Given Evergrande Reprieve as PBOC Adds Liquidity (Bloomberg)
  18. Jerome Powell Is Confronting a World of Risks to the Fed’s Taper Timeline (Bloomberg)
  19. Democrats’ Big Plans Shrink in Face of Disunity, Implacable GOP (Bloomberg)
  20. Fed Dot Plot to Show Debate on 2022 Liftoff: Decision-Day Guide (Bloomberg)
  21. Stronger mortgage demand points to September surge in home sales (CNBC)
  22. 4 reasons why the market will see a full rebound from the Evergrande sell-off as early as this week, according to Fundstrat’s Tom Lee (Business Insider)
  23. News Corp sets new $1 billion stock buyback program (marketwatch)
  24. Move to These 5 Big Dividend Winners Now (247wallst)
  25. Hardly Evergrande: China’s economy seen needing more support as curbs on property and tech take toll (Reuters)
  26. Cheerios-owner General Mills sales jump on pet food boom (Yahoo! Finance)
  27. Evergrande and the end of China’s ‘build, build, build’ model (Financial Times)