Be in the know. 12 key reads for Friday…

  1. China Weighs Removing Major Homebuying Curbs to Boost Demand (bloomberg)
  2. How Luxury Stocks Lost Their Shine. These Are the Ones That Will Get It Back. (barrons)
  3. Small-Caps Are Outperforming. They Could Be the Stock Market’s Best Bet. (barrons)
  4. Chinese Officials are also mulling measures to shore up stock market (bloomberg)
  5. This Money Manager Likes Durable Businesses. 4 Industrial Stocks He’s Got His Eye On. (barrons)
  6. Yen Weakens as Ueda Indicates BOJ Isn’t in Hurry to Hike Rates (bloomberg)
  7. The Fed’s New R-Word Is ‘Recalibrate.’ Why Investors Love It. (barrons)
  8. Analysts warned about the fallout from a surging yen. But then this happened. (marketwatch)
  9. FedEx’s earnings miss may be more of a speed bump than a brick wall, analyst says (marketwatch)
  10. This is what the Fed’s interest-rate cut means for distressed companies (marketwatch)
  11. Hang Seng Index posts biggest weekly gain in 5 months (scmp)
  12. Alibaba CEO eyes greater AI research and development, open sources 100 new LLMs (scmp)