Be in the know. 25 key reads for Friday…

  1. What Small-Cap Stocks Need to Finally Join the Market Rally (barrons)
  2. Where Will Intel Stock Be in 3 Years? (fool)
  3. U.S. and China hold first informal nuclear talks in five years (reuters)
  4. As Nvidia Soars, History Advises Caution. (barrons)
  5. FedEx Stock Has Delivered Disappointment. Next Week’s Earnings Could Change That. (barrons)
  6. Gilead’s Twice-Yearly Shot Prevents HIV. Where the Stock Is Headed. (barrons)
  7. 2025 McLaren Artura Spider: An Unobnoxious Supercar (wsj)
  8. Nvidia’s Success Is the Stock Market’s Problem (wsj)
  9. New Home Construction Slows as Mortgage Rates Remain High (nytimes)
  10. Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Babies (bloomberg)
  11. US business activity inches up in June; price pressures abating (reuters)
  12. Chart Master: Is a REIT revival incoming? (cnbc)
  13. Bugatti Unveils V-16 Hybrid Supercar ‘Tourbillon’ (bloomberg)
  14. US Services Activity Expands by Most in More Than Two Years (bloomberg)
  15. Boeing-Spirit Aero Deal Nears Close as Airbus Talks Advance (bloomberg)
  16. Odd Lots: John Arnold on Why It’s Hard To Build Things (bloomberg)
  17. How YouTube Became Must Watch TV (bloomberg)
  18. Nike Stock Can Just Do It. It’s Time to Buy. (barrons)
  19. VF Stock Keeps Sliding. CEO Bracken Darrell Just Bought $1 Million of Shares. (barrons)
  20. Chances of ‘no landing’ grows by the day: Bank of America (streetinsider)
  21. Wells Fargo tells its clients to reduce exposure to ‘overvalued’ tech stocks (streetinsider)
  22. Amazon stock target lifted at Baird on revised margin outlook (streetinsider)
  23. China talks up support for IPOs. Investors are watching the speed of approval (cnbc)
  24. Leading economic index falls again, but it’s not signaling recession (marketwatch)
  25. Hertz upsizes junk-bond offering to $1 billion as it pushes ahead with fleet refresh (marketwatch)