Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Alibaba, DiDi, NIO, and Other Chinese Stocks Soar. A Critical Headwind May Be Easing. (barrons)
  2. China Weighs Giving U.S. Full Access to Audits of Most Firms (2) (bloomberg)
  3. Is 3M the Next Big Company to Break Up? Here’s What It Could Look Like. (barrons)
  4. Vertex Continues Its Meteoric Run After Its Opioid Alternative Scores In A Key Test (investors)
  5. Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65 (barrons)
  6. The Case for Building Wealth With Stocks, Not Homes (barrons)
  7. Home Builders Are the Cheapest Stocks Around. Is It Time to Buy? (barrons)
  8. Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more. (marketwatch)
  9. NIO, Li, and XPeng EV Deliveries Look Solid. That’s Good for Tesla. (barrons)
  10. Biden to Draw Down Oil Reserves in Bid to Ease Gas Prices (wsj)
  11. U.S. Inflation Rises to 40-Year Peak in February by Fed’s Preferred Measure (wsj)
  12. OPEC Sticks to Production Plan Despite Elevated Oil Prices Amid Ukraine War (wsj)
  13. The Dominance of Tech Stocks in S&P 500 Is Set to Shrink Next Year (bloomberg)
  14. Here’s How China Can Escape the Covid Zero Lockdown Trap (bloomberg)
  15. Chinese ADRs surge after report of China authorities’ plans to give access to audits (marketwatch)
  16. US Treasury yield curve inverts again (foxbusiness)
  17. The Yield Curve Inverts: What Happens Next (zerohedge)
  18. Buyback Bonanza as Regulators Talk About Talking (chinalastnight)
  19. A dozen S&P 500 stocks just had their worst quarter ever, as tech stocks sloughed off nearly $2 trillion in value (marketwatch)
  20. Jefferies shares the 20 stocks that hedge fund managers are placing the biggest bets on for their wealthy clients — and the 20 names they’re betting against the most (businessinsider)