Be in the know. 30 key reads for Saturday…

  1. University of California Increased Alibaba, Pinduoduo Stock Investments (Barron’s)
  2. MSG Entertainment, MSG Sports, and AMC Networks Can Be Contenders. And Their Stocks Are Cheap. (Barron’s)
  3. Tesla Is Winning the EV Race. Better Batteries Will Help Ford and GM Close the Gap. (Barron’s)
  4. Forget AMC. Buy Cinemark. (Barron’s)
  5. Royal Caribbean Expects a Profit Next Year. Wall Street Takes a Wait-and-See Approach. (Barron’s)
  6. Cruise Lines Could Get a Boost as Travelers Splurge on ‘Revenge Travel’ (Barron’s)
  7. Merck’s Covid Antiviral Isn’t Just a Quick Win (Barron’s)
  8. Easy Money Will Stay Even if the Fed Tightens. That’s Good for Stocks. (Barron’s)
  9. There Are Hundreds of Reasons to Sell the Stock Market. Don’t. (Barron’s)
  10. Big Tech Earnings Are Over. 6 Things Investors Need to Know About a Disappointing Week. (Barron’s)
  11. Inside DeFi, the Wild West of Cryptocurrency (Barron’s)
  12. Democrats Want to Raise Taxes. Here’s What’s Likely to Change. (Barron’s)
  13. Narrowing Yield Gap Signals Worries Over Fed, Growth (Wall Street Journal)
  14. China Says Outbreak in Inner Mongolia Tourist Spot Under Control (Bloomberg)
  15. Erdogan Set to Seek Biden Meeting in Rome, May Skip COP26 Summit (Bloomberg)
  16. ‘Going It Alone’ Is Not an Option, Draghi Says: G-20 Update (Bloomberg)
  17. Tiger Moms Switch Kids to Sports After Tutoring Purge (Bloomberg)
  18. Stock Skeptics Forced to Recant by Best October Run in Six Years (Bloomberg)
  19. It’s not a ‘Great Resignation’ that will change work forever, one economist says. His calculations show the labor shortage is ending soon. (businessinsider)
  20. Here are 22 stocks best-positioned to drive big returns as the S&P 500 gets set to surge by up to 30% in the next several months, according to a senior research analyst at a $437 billion firm (businessinsider)
  21. From ‘adults giggling’ to utopia: How GM’s Corvette team describes the new Z06 (CNBC)
  22. Jim Cramer says chipmaker GlobalFoundries is a buy after its IPO this week (CNBC)
  23. G-20: COVID-19, corporate taxes, Iran nuclear deal on Biden’s Day 1 agenda (USA Today)
  24. ‘I’d rather be a billionaire and not be loved by everybody’: Charlie Munger shrugs off controversy over $200M donation for nearly windowless dorm (MarketWatch)
  25. Hedge funds seen facing heavy losses amid wrong-way Treasury bets ahead of Fed tapering, traders say (marketwatch)
  26. Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions on the Horizon, and Exploring the Meaning of Life (#541) (Tim Ferriss)
  27. 10 Scary Stocks: 2021 Edition (morningstar)
  28. Small Cap Outlook: What’s Likely to Continue—or Change? (royce)
  29. The Billionaire Tax: The Worst Tax Idea Ever? (aswathdamodaran)
  30. Goldman Now Sees Fed Hiking Rates in July as Inflation Lingers (Bloomberg)