Be in the know. 20 key reads for Monday…

  1. Virgin Galactic Stock Is Soaring. Just Like That, SPACs Are Back. (Barron’s)
  2. ‘Fortnite’ Game Developer and Apple Wrap Up Three-Week Trial (Barron’s)
  3. Bill Gates’ Trust Exited Apple and Twitter Stock (Barron’s)
  4. U.S. Covid-19 Cases Are the Lowest Since Early in the Pandemic. What to Know. (Barron’s)
  5. Global Stocks Edge Up as China Targets Commodity Price Boom (Barron’s)
  6. Biden Tax Hikes Hitting Resistance, With ‘No Room for Error’ (Bloomberg)
  7. Ferrari Pitches $500,000 Hybrid Supercar as a Bargain for Daily Driving (Bloomberg)
  8. Shale Drillers Cabot, Cimarex to Merge in $7.4 Billion Deal (Bloomberg)
  9. Bank CEOs Headed to Congress Due for Grilling Over Drop in Loans (Bloomberg)
  10. Investors are still confident in thematic tech even as prices plunge (CNBC)
  11. John Malone sees merged WarnerMedia-Discovery becoming No. 3 global streamer behind Netflix, Disney+ (CNBC)
  12. Fed’s Lael Brainard pushes digital dollar as central bank currency race heats up (CNBC)
  13. Coinbase could jump 36% as it is the best way to invest in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, Goldman Sachs says (Business Insider)
  14. Pfizer Starts Another Covid-19 Booster Trial (MarketWatch)
  15. How a Global Minimum Tax Could Impact Markets (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Coinbase appoints former White House staffer as chief policy officer (Reuters)
  17. Fed’s Brainard says she expects pricing pressures to subside over time (Reuters)
  18. CN (CNI) to Combine With Kansas City Southern (KSU) (StreetInsider)
  19. UPDATE 2-Norwegian Cruise to return to U.S. sailing in August (Yahoo! Finance)
  20. Controversial Ivermectin Added to University of Minnesota COVID-19 Drug Trial (Trial Site News)