Be in the know. 30 key reads for Friday…

  1. Fed Doesn’t Yet Favor a Half-Point Hike or an Emergency Move (bloomberg)
  2. Alibaba Earnings Are Coming. Here’s When, What to Expect and 4 Numbers to Watch. (barrons)
  3. Preferred Stock Yields Hit 5% After Sharp Market Selloff (barrons)
  4. Brazil Lures Value Investors. Don’t Expect a Carnival. (barrons)
  5. Opinion: Inflation fears are overblown — five reasons why you need to buy the dip in stocks (marketwatch)
  6. Air Taxis Are Hot. Blade Blows Away Sales Estimates. (barrons)
  7. Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App After Its Home-Flipping Exit. What Wall Street Thinks. (barrons)
  8. Why British Stocks Are Outperforming the U.S. (barrons)
  9. Inflation Is Surging. Here Are Some Portfolio Changes to Consider. (barrons)
  10. Moving on US women’s hockey team advances to semifinals, but it wasn’t easy (nypost)
  11. WarnerMedia-Discovery merger OK’d, but Amazon-MGM remains in limbo (nypost)
  12. China’s Anti-Graft Show Is Educational, With Unintended Lessons (nytimes)
  13. Turkey Sees Inflation Easing to Single Digits by 2023 Election (bloomberg)
  14. When Will China Be the World’s Biggest Economy? Maybe Never (bloomberg)
  15. $1 Billion in Super Bowl Bets Reshapes Sports Fandom (bloomberg)
  16. Why Russia-Ukraine Tensions Are So Hard to Defuse (bloomberg)
  17. Why Some Chinese Are ‘Lying Flat’ and What That Means (bloomberg)
  18. China’s biggest chipmaker SMIC posts record revenue despite U.S. sanctions (cnbc)
  19. The Fed is still likely to take a measured approach to rate hikes despite calls for bigger action (cnbc)
  20. France’s Macron Bets on Nuclear Power to Fight Climate Change (wsj)
  21. Coke and PepsiCo Earnings Show Big Sales Gains on Big Price Increases (wsj)
  22. Shareholders Reign Supreme Despite CEO Promises to Society (wsj)
  23. My Head Says Rams. My Heart Says Bengals. It’s a Super Bowl Toss-Up! (wsj)
  24. Schools Lift Mask Requirements, Change Rules as Omicron Recedes (wsj)
  25. Nokia to launch equivalent of up to $342 million in stock repurchases (marketwatch)
  26. U.S. consumer sentiment falls to ‘stunning’ decade low as inflation expectations hit 13-year high (marketwatch)
  27. Bond Veterans Say Market Wrong to See Fed Hikes Ending Near 2% (bloomberg)
  28. Fed Scrambles To Push Back Against Damage Caused By Bullard’s “Immature, Unprofessional” Comments (zerohedge)
  29. Goldman ups Fed hike forecast to 7 rate increases in 2022 after CPI data (streetinsider)
  30. Traders crank up bets of aggressive Fed action to combat hot inflation (ft)