Be in the know. 18 key reads for Friday…

  1. Investors Shouldn’t Sweat the Defense Budget. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  2. Aerospace and Defense May Be the Best Offense for Q2: 5 Top Stocks to Buy Now (24/7wallst)
  3. U.S. PPI up 1% in March, with factory-level inflation rate registering 4.2% on a year-over-year basis (MarketWatch)
  4. Biotech Stocks Hit A Snag — Why Experts Say The Heyday Isn’t Over (IBD)
  5. Why It Might Be Time to Buy Brazil Stocks (Barron’s)
  6. Stocks Are Close to Bubble Territory Again—but Only by Some Measures (Barron’s)
  7. Safe haven plays still popular amid rotation into cyclical stocks, March fund flows show (MarketWatch)
  8. Stock-Market Investing Is Picking Up. Baby Boomers Might Be Behind It. (Barron’s)
  9. First-Time Investors Now Make Up 15% of Retail Market (Institutional Investor)
  10. How Equity Analysts Filled the Covid-19 ‘Information Void’ (Institutional Investor)
  11. New York City’s Wealthy Will Pay Nation’s Highest Tax Rates. How Will That Affect a Rebound? (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Dangerous Games. The Energy Report 04/09/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  13. Home Prices Soar in Frenzied U.S. Market Drained of Supply (Bloomberg)
  14. ‘Enjoy this ride’ — Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel says stock market could go up 30% before boom ends (CNBC)
  15. NIH recommends Lilly and Regeneron’s combination antibody treatments to people with mild and moderate COVID-19 (MarketWatch)
  16. General Electric (GE) PT Raised to $17 at UBS on Turnaround (Street Insider)
  17. 2 wild economic charts we’ll be watching closely: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  18. Inflation might be the way out of the debt crisis (Financial Times)