Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Stock Market Short Sellers That Helped Fuel This Year’s Rally Are Finally Giving Up (bloomberg)
  2. China Ends Tech Crackdown With Fines on Tencent, Ant Group (bloomberg)
  3. Ant to Repurchase Shares at $78.5 Billion Valuation (bloomberg)
  4. Prominent China Influencer Says Buy Mainland Stocks, Not Homes (bloomberg)
  5. Q2 Earnings Might Not Lift the Indexes. They Could Mean Big Gains for Certain Stocks. (barrons)
  6. Fed’s Goolsbee says job data show labor market is cooling to sustainable pace (marketwatch)
  7. AI Is Driving an Uptick in Cloud Computing Demand. Good News for Amazon. (barrons)
  8. A Deal-Making Rebound Is Already in the Works (barrons)
  9. Yellen Goes to Battle for U.S. Chip Makers on China Visit (barrons)
  10. S. Jobs Growth Slowed in June. It’s a Relief for the Fed. (barrons)
  11. General Motors Stock Rises for 9th Straight Day. What’s Behind the Streak. (barrons)
  12. Has BLS Overestimated Job Growth in Recent Quarters? We’ll Know Soon. (barrons)
  13. Americans Have the Travel Bug, and They’re Going Abroad. What Stocks to Play. (barrons)
  14. Job Market Is Giving the Fed What It Wants — Just Slowly (bloomberg)
  15. CEO Who Grew Up in Poverty Builds Rare $1.4 Billion Fish Startup (bloomberg)
  16. Yellen Seeks “Fair Set Of Rules” In Meeting With Chinese Premier Amid Strained Ties (forbes)
  17. Yellen Says US Doesn’t Want ‘Winner Take All’ Fight With China (bloomberg)
  18. He Drives the Clark Kent of Porsche Supercars (wsj)
  19. How to Drive a Supercar: Everything You Need to Know Before Getting Behind the Wheel (robbreport)
  20. Here are 30 book recommendations from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates to add to your summer reading list if you want to get smarter about business and leadership (businessinsider)