Be in the know. 10 key reads for Friday…

  1. Intel Stock Rises After Chip Maker Beats Earnings. CFO Sees ‘Green Shoots’ in China (barrons)
  2. Intel tops Wall Street estimates, CEO says data-center business is improving (marketwatch)
  3. Amazon’s Cloud Outlook Panicked Investors. Don’t Overreact, Analysts Say. (barrons)
  4. Fed’s Favored Inflation Metric Remains Stubbornly High (barrons)
  5. Inflation barely rises, PCE shows, but ‘core’ rate still ‘sticky’ (marketwatch)
  6. First Republic Bank Faces a Critical Weekend. What to Expect. (barrons)
  7. GDP Report Shows Economic Growth Slowed in First Quarter (wsj)
  8. Russian Pranksters Dupe Fed Chair Jerome Powell Into Recorded Call (wsj)
  9. S. officials lead urgent rescue talks for First Republic (reuters)
  10. Big Tech earnings resilient as sector gears up for AI boom (ft)