Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. The S&P 500 Took Off at Year’s End. Earnings Could Bring More Gains. (barrons)
  2. Signs That Prices Might Be Heading Back Down Soon (barrons)
  3. Why Visa, Juggernaut of the Payments Business, Is a Buy (barrons)
  4. Fed Minutes Suggest More Stock-Market Turmoil Could Lie Ahead (barrons)
  5. Biggest Tech Selling in a Decade as Rate Rout Spooks Hedge Funds (bloomberg)
  6. These Pharma Firms Have the Cash for Acquisitions (barrons)
  7. Netflix’s Subscriber Growth May Fall Short, Analyst Says. Why He’s Still Upbeat. (barrons)
  8. Tech Stocks Are Having Their Worst Start to a Year Since 2008. What’s Behind the Selloff. (barrons)
  9. Meme Stocks, Crypto Sink as Possible Rate Hike Looms. GameStop and AMC Led the Slump. (barrons)
  10. Walgreens Stock Rises on Profit Beat and Guidance Raise (barrons)
  11. 20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58% (marketwatch)
  12. Fed Minutes Point to Possible Rate Increase in March (wsj)
  13. China’s Unpredictable, Heavy-Handed Governance Threatens Growth (wsj)
  14. Anger at Xi’an Lockdown Spreads in China (wsj)
  15. AT&T Shed Media Assets in 2021. This Year It Wants to Add Investors. (wsj)
  16. Goldman Strategists See Haven in Europe Stocks Amid Rate Hikes (bloomberg)
  17. Boeing stock gains after Atlas Air orders 4 Boeing 777 freighters (marketwatch)
  18. Big tech stocks will be ‘bumpy’ in 2022: Bob Doll (foxbusiness)
  19. Wells Fargo, Bank of America draw price target hikes on bullish loan data (marketwatch)
  20. Wall Street Loves China More Than Ever (bloomberg)
  21. China’s digital currency comes to its biggest messaging app WeChat, which has over a billion users (cnbc)
  22. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may be buying Japanese stocks again, based on its latest bond issue (businessinsider)
  23. Alibaba bets on the metaverse with DingTalk AR glasses (scmp)
  24. This tech giant will shape the future of the metaverse, buy its stock: analyst (yahoo)
  25. Could A Graphite Shortage Derail The $3 Trillion EV Boom? (yahoo)