Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. Berkshire’s $11.6B Alleghany deal expands insurance business (washingtonpost)
  2. Worried About Oil Prices? These Charts Show What Could Come Next. (barrons)
  3. Russian elites planning to overthrow Putin: Ukrainian intelligence (nypost)
  4. China’s Disneyland shuts down following COVID-19 surge (nypost)
  5. China Plane Crash Update: Airline to Ground Boeing 737-800 (bloomberg)
  6. Ukraine Update: Mariupol Rejects Surrender Demand; Kyiv Mall Hit (bloomberg)
  7. Here’s Why a Russian Bond Default Would Be Particularly Messy (bloomberg)
  8. Fed’s Bostic Favors Six Rate Hikes in 2022, Fewer Than Colleagues (bloomberg)
  9. Traders See Key Part of Treasury Yield Curve Inverting by June (bloomberg)
  10. Russia staves off default by sending dollar bond payments to creditors, but now faces a $4.6 billion challenge (businessinsider)
  11. Is travel back? (marketwatch)
  12. Opinion: Nuclear power can be part of the energy solution if we can get over our unfounded fears (marketwatch)
  13. From Record Selling To Panic Buying: A Week For The Hedge Fund History Books (zerohedge)
  14. Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Buy Real Estate And Most Other Investors Shouldn’t Either (benzinga)
  15. Hong Kong’s stock market needs more than just verbal assurances for a sustainable rally, say analysts (scmp)