Be in the know. 35 key reads for Monday…

  1. Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal scored a 15x return on a stock — and used margin debt to invest $87 million last quarter (businessinsider)
  2. How the U.S. Built a Winning Men’s Olympic Hockey Team in 10 Days (wsj)
  3. China’s tech giants push toward an $8 trillion metaverse opportunity — one that will be highly regulated (cnbc)
  4. A Reason to Bet on a Less Aggressive Fed (barrons)
  5. Biotech Money Shock: Investors Unwind Speculative Bets as Pandemic Fears Fade (bloomberg)
  6. The managers of a biotech fund that has beaten nearly 70% of its peers in the last 10 years lay out the 5 key trends that will power the industry in a post-Covid world – and reveal 3 stocks that could surge thanks to drug breakthroughs (businessinsider)
  7. Central Bank Should Weigh Asset Sales to Curb Inflation, Says Fed Official (wsj)
  8. LeBron James, Larry David And QR Codes: The Star-Studded Crypto Super Bowl Commercials (benzinga)
  9. News in-depth. Jay Powell keeps options open as he seeks Fed consensus on rate move (ft)
  10. Live news: Russian foreign minister tells Putin there is a way forward for security talks (ft)
  11. Remittances made to Central America from the US reach record levels (ft)
  12. PayPal’s Stock Drop Wiped Out 2 Years of Gains. Insiders Are Buying Up Shares. (yahoo)
  13. Lockheed Martin Ditches Aerojet Purchase After FTC Opposition (barrons)
  14. A giant, doughnut-shaped machine delivers a major climate-change breakthrough — sustained nuclear fusion (marketwatch)
  15. China auto sales decline for eighth month in a row (marketwatch)
  16. Goldman Sachs sees three paths for the S&P 500 (marketwatch)
  17. The best Super Bowl 2022 commercials: The ads that scored a touchdown (nypost)
  18. China evades questions on why it hasn’t evacuated embassy staff and citizens from Ukraine (cnn)
  19. China’s Approval of Pfizer Pill Opens Door to Ending Covid Zero (bloomberg)
  20. New York Fed Concludes Underlying Inflation IS Only 4.6% (mishtalk)
  21. Ukraine’s leader invites Biden to visit soon (reuters)
  22. Boeing Says It Won’t Rush Process of Resuming 787 Deliveries (bloomberg)
  23. Private Equity Surges in China as Broader M&A Market Stalls (wsj)
  24. Larry David Doesn’t Get Crypto. That’s Why He’s the Perfect Pitchman. (nytimes)
  25. ‘We’ve seen the lows’ Fidelity’s global macro director says. He lays out the ‘key ingredient’ the Fed uses to keep the stock market stable — and shares the 1 under-the-radar risk that could upset it (businessinsider)
  26. Ukraine could drop NATO bid to avoid war, ambassador tells BBC (reuters)
  27. Gary Vaynerchuk says 98% of NFT projects will fail after the gold rush fades. Here’s why 2 experts think he might be right. (businessinsider)
  28. The market technician Helene Meisler has taught everyone from Wall Street pros to investing newcomers for 25 years. She told us why she still charts 200 stocks a day by hand and her must-watch indicator right now. (businessinsider)
  29. Energy Insecurity. The Energy Report 02/14/2022 (Phil Flynn)
  30. Putin Signals Talks With U.S. to Go On as Some Troop Drills End (bloomberg)
  31. Airbus Sees Boom in Asia-Pacific Plane Demand as Virus Eases (bloomberg)
  32. Dimon Risks Past Success Story in Push for Growth, Mayo Says (bloomberg)
  33. S. Tech Firms Hunt for Cheap Home-Based Hires in Latin America (bloomberg)
  34. Tim Duy on the Huge Challenge the Fed Now Has in 2022 (bloomberg)
  35. Rolls-Royce to Help Power Electric Planes as Soon as 2025 (bloomberg)