Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

1. Wall Street Has Abandoned Oil and Gas Stocks. You Shouldn’t. (Barron’s)
2. American Eagle Stock Will Soar Despite the Trade War (Barron’s)
3. Copper prices could take off as supply tightens (Barron’s)
4. Strong consumer spending points away from a recession (Barron’s)
5. How to Avoid Recession? Cut Rates Like It’s 1995. (Barron’s)
6. Ackman Calls Berkshire a ‘Misunderstood’ Cash Machine (Barron’s)
7. Alibaba ADRs Are Rising Because of Strong Earnings. Here’s What Wall Street Thinks. (Barron’s)
8. Deere Stock Is Up Because All the Bad News Was Known (Barron’s)
9. Why The Co-Founder of Allbirds Always Exercises Before His Flight (Wall Street Journal)
10. Silicon Valley Goes to Congress in First Trailer for the Final Season (Vanity Fair)
11. Here’s what Powell could say at Jackson Hole to soothe the roller coaster markets
(CNBC)
12. BofA’s CEO Says the Biggest Recession Risk Is the Fear of Recession (Bloomberg)
13. Bugatti Channels Early ’90s Supercar Swag in New $8.9 Million Auto (Bloomberg)
14. Why the ECB Will Stuff Free Money Into Bank Pockets Again (Bloomberg)
15. Fed’s Kashkari Backs More Policy Support as Recession Risks Rise (Bloomberg)
16. These are the 15 hottest destinations billionaires are traveling to in 2019 (Business Insider)
17. More and More Public Companies Are Going Private (Institutional Investor)
18. ‘The Worst That Activist Short Selling Has to Offer’ (Institutional Investor)
19. Comedian Jim Gaffigan Rakes In $30 Million By Ditching Netflix And Betting On Himself (Forbes)
20. Tencent and other Chinese tech firms are reporting decent results (Economist)