Be in the know. 14 key reads for Thursday…

  1. GDP Growth Surged in Fourth Quarter for Strong Finish to 2023 (barrons)
  2. China Stocks Are World’s ‘Best Value Proposition’ to Gavekal (bloomberg)
  3. Airlines Can Complain About Boeing All They Want. Why It Doesn’t Matter. (barrons)
  4. Here are 3 things investors need to know about how the Fed might roll back quantitative tightening (marketwatch)
  5. U.S. initial jobless claims up 25,000 to 214,000 in latest week (marketwatch)
  6. Insurers Rake In Profits as Customers’ Premiums Soar (wsj)
  7. China Moves to Boost Bank Lending in Broad Effort to Prop Up Growth (wsj)
  8. China property stocks jump as Beijing takes steps to boost liquidity in the beleaguered sector (cnbc)
  9. 5 reasons the stock market rally will broaden in 2024, according to forecaster who nailed 2023’s surge (businessinsider)
  10. China wants domestic investors to stop buying so much foreign stock (businessinsider)
  11. Chinese retail investors hit by big losses in ‘snowball’ derivatives (ft)
  12. Fintech giant Ant Group sets up AI unit led by former Google researcher (scmp)
  13. Hong Kong stocks recoup US$400 billion, China plans to restore market confidence (scmp)
  14. Fairlead’s Katie Stockton charts the next move for small caps (cnbc)