Be in the know. 12 key reads for Monday…

  1. Cigna board adds $6 billion to company’s share buyback authorization, boosting it to $10 billion (marketwatch)
  2. PayPal, Intel and Paramount Stock Hit Multiyear Lows. Insiders Scooped Up Shares. (barrons)
  3. An Iran Nuclear Deal Looks Close. What That Means for Oil Markets. (barrons)
  4. Putin played Powell — and US pays the price (nypost)
  5. Lockheed, Defense Stocks Jump as Germany Boosts Military Spending (barrons)
  6. Taiwan Is Not Ukraine (barrons)
  7. JPMorgan Says Selling Stocks Now Carries Too Much Risk (bloomberg)
  8. S., Allies Considering 60 Million Barrel Oil Reserve Release (bloomberg)
  9. Ukrainians Return Home to Fight Russia: ‘I Have to Go’ (wsj)
  10. Germany to Boost Military Spending in Latest Historic Shift (yahoo)
  11. Russia Central Bank Increases Interest Rate to 20% After Ruble Plunged, Introduces Capital Controls; Defense Stocks ‘Top of Mind’ for Investors (streetinsider)
  12. Before he was Ukraine’s president, Zelensky voiced Paddington Bear (nypost)