Be in the know. 23 key reads for Monday…

  1. Intel Stock Rises on Report of Apollo Investment. Why It’s a Good Sign. (barrons)
  2. China Stimulus Hopes Add to Fed Cues as EM Stocks Hit July Highs (bloomberg)
  3. China stimulus calls are growing louder — inside and outside the country (cnbc)
  4. China’s youth unemployment hits fresh high amid economic slowdown and restrictive hiring policies (cnbc)
  5. Nvidia Stock Is Slumping. What What Tesla Can Tell Us. (barrons)
  6. The Dow at 50,000. How It Could Happen—and When. (barrons)
  7. These Restaurants Are Ordering Up CEOs. How It Goes Down With the Stocks. (barrons)
  8. Fed’s Bostic Sees a U.S. Economy Ready for Neutral Interest Rates (barrons)
  9. Wall Street’s most cautious voice says defensive stocks are now too rich. What alternatives are left? (marketwatch)
  10. Boeing’s Defense Head Leaves. Starliner Wasn’t the Only Reason. (barrons)
  11. ‘Reagan’ Defies Negative Reviews And Holds Strong In Box Office Top 5 (forbes)
  12. Investors cheer a soft landing scenario after Fed’s big rate cut. But they’re still keeping their guard up for a downturn. (marketwatch)
  13. The Fed’s rate cut should make it easier to get a job — eventually. Here are the industries that could ramp up hiring first. (marketwatch)
  14. How Bill Ackman Is Pursuing Howard Hughes’ Real Estate Empire (barrons)
  15. Amazon Fell Behind in AI. An Alexa Creator Is Leading Its Push to Catch Up. (wsj)
  16. The Rate Cut Happened. Not All Borrowing Costs Are Going Down. (wsj)
  17. Elliott Hill Loved Nike and Left It. Now He’s Back as CEO (wsj)
  18. How a Surfer Who Never Finished College Became a Biotech Billionaire (wsj)
  19. Rather than taxing Americans on the money they earn at their jobs and on their investments, Mr. Trump instead suggested imposing a broad tax on the goods that Americans buy from abroad. In his view, such tariffs could replace income taxes as the main source of federal revenue. (nytimes)
  20. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari: Fed is likely to make smaller rate moves going forward (youtube)
  21. Bull Market Chance at 80% With Fed Cuts, Says Ed Yardeni (bloomberg)
  22. How Foot Locker is waging a comeback after its breakup with Nike (cnbc)
  23. S. business activity suffers small loss of momentum in September, PMI shows (marketwatch)