Be in the know. 22 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Year-End China Stocks Rally Takes Hold as Foreign Funds Pile In (bloomberg)
  2. Dividend Stocks: 3M Hits Buy Point With Dividend Set To Climb For 65th Straight Year (yahoo)
  3. Brad Jacobs Plans to Make Billions in the Building Supply Industry (bloomberg)
  4. Investing for Growth Future Review Alibaba’s 5 Major Themes in 2023 (alibabanews)
  5. Small-cap stocks are nearing a ‘golden cross’ as year-end rally heats up (marketwatch)
  6. This Vaccine Maker’s Stock Is Worth Owning (barrons)
  7. Tencent Buys the Dip as Online Gaming Regulators Scramble (chinalastnight)
  8. Traders that fueled stock-market rally are now nearly tapped out, Goldman says (marketwatch)
  9. 2024 Could Be a Winner for Oil, Gas, and Gold (barrons)
  10. A Wave of Corporate Refinancings Is Coming. This Time, It Won’t Lead to Layoffs. (barrons)
  11. Equalweight S&P 500 and handful of key market gauges at or near ‘golden cross’ (marketwatch)
  12. 20 midcap stocks with 2024 upside ranging up to 62%, according to analysts (marketwatch)
  13. 20 favorite small-cap stocks for 2024 among Wall Street analysts (marketwatch)
  14. How Electric Vehicles Are Losing Momentum with U.S. Buyers, in Charts (wsj)
  15. Santa Might Have One Last Gift for Investors (wsj)
  16. Will China Ease Its New Video Game Controls? Investors Think So. (nytimes)
  17. The Water Trade Is Booming — and Sucking Australia Dry (bloomberg)
  18. Biden administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations will face major tests in 2024 (cnbc)
  19. The ‘Wizard of Wharton’ says stocks will jump next year as economic fears fade – and fresh faith in the Fed explains the market’s latest rally (businessinsider)
  20. The Roaring ’20s are so back, baby! (Probably. OK, maybe … hopefully?) (businessinsider)
  21. 2024 Could Be the Year of the Yen (wsj)
  22. Soft Landing Talk Prompts 1990s Flashbacks (wsj)