Be in the know. 33 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. 10-year Treasury yield ends at nearly 11-week low (marketwatch)
  2. US bond yield slide hits dollar (ft)
  3. PayPal Sees Earnings Growth as Firm Streamlines Businesses (bloomberg)
  4. Popular momentum trades like Palantir and AppLovin are unraveling. Don’t expect them to bounce right back. (marketwatch)
  5. Xi Brings China’s Big Tech Companies Back In From the Cold (bloomberg)
  6. MicroStrategy Stock Tumbles. The Value of Its Bitcoin Hoard Is Falling. (barrons)
  7. Healthcare Stocks Should Be Hurting. How the Sector Became This Year’s Top Performer. (barrons)
  8. Bitcoin Sinks, MicroStrategy Dives As Initial Trump Euphoria Sours (investors)
  9. House Passes GOP Budget Plan as Holdouts Relent (wsj)
  10. Meet the World’s 24 Superbillionaires (wsj)
  11. Xi also tells officials to promote sustained economic recovery (bloomberg)
  12. Forget MAGA, Investors Want MEGA: Make Europe Great Again (wsj)
  13. PayPal has some big new growth targets. Can it hit its marks? (marketwatch)
  14. BofA Strategist Hartnett Warns S&P 500 Rally Draws Investor Skepticism (bloomberg)
  15. Nvidia Drifts Ahead of Make-or-Break Earnings (barrons)
  16. Palantir Stock Falls Again. Why Its Losing Streak Won’t End. (barrons)
  17. Investors’ euphoric outlook on the markets has largely faded, replaced by a creeping sense of uncertainty (marketwatch)
  18. These stock-market sectors are dominating the S&P 500 so far this year as investors play defense (marketwatch)
  19. The AI Trade Is Unwinding. The Market Isn’t Waiting for Nvidia Earnings to Sell. (barrons)
  20. Mexico-Canada Tariffs Are Still Up in the Air, White House Says. The Market Had Already Caught On. (barrons)
  21. Industrial Stocks Have Taken It on the Chin. 6 to Buy on the Dip. (barrons)
  22. What Do Mass Federal Layoffs Mean for the Labor Market? (wsj)
  23. What Is Quantum Computing, and Why Does It Matter? (wsj)
  24. Alibaba previews new AI reasoning model to challenge DeepSeek R1, OpenAI o1 (finance.yahoo)
  25. Trump says US will sell $5M ‘gold cards’ to foreigners: ‘Green card privileges-plus’ (nypost)
  26. Tax Cut Chances Rise as House Passes Budget Targeting Safety Net (bloomberg)
  27. How Temu’s Online Dollar Store Became a Trade War Target (bloomberg)
  28. US Consumer Confidence Drops by Most Since 2021 on Outlook (bloomberg)
  29. What a ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’ Would Mean for the Dollar (bloomberg)
  30. PayPal is betting big on Venmo (QZ)
  31. PayPal touts ambitious growth plans during annual investor day (finance.yahoo)
  32. PayPal Investor Day Touts Profit Roadmap, Venmo Monetization, Merchant Platform (finance.yahoo)
  33. Jefferies starts coverage on Stanley Black & Decker with ‘buy,’ sees 20% upside (finance.yahoo)