Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Airbus Increases A320 Jet Production as Aerospace Giant Signals Recovery (Barron’s)
  2. Meme Stocks Are Rallying. Analysts Aren’t Focusing on Potential Short Squeezes. (Barron’s)
  3. Food Network’s Guy Fieri snags $80M deal that renews his 2 shows (Fox Business)
  4. Glaxo, Once a Covid Also-Ran, Gets Go-Ahead for Antibody (Barron’s)
  5. Facebook Set for Antitrust Probe Over Online Marketplace, According to Report (Barron’s)
  6. Toll Brothers Earnings Show Luxury Homes Are Still Booming (Barron’s)
  7. EU Eyes Formal Antitrust Investigation Into Facebook (Wall Street Journal)
  8. US workers file 406,000 new jobless claims as economy heats up (New York Post)
  9. Influencers Say They Were Urged to Criticize Pfizer Vaccine (New York Times)
  10. See if your favorite beach is among the top 10 beaches in America for 2021 (USA Today)
  11. 1970s Inflation Is So 50 Years Ago (Bloomberg)
  12. The Fed keeps expanding its powers, and that’s making some people nervous (CNBC)
  13. Activist Fund Elliott Management Could Give GSK Some Space: Report (MarketWatch)
  14. U.S. GDP expanded at unrevised 6.4% rate in first quarter (MarketWatch)
  15. U.S. durable-goods orders decline 1.3% in April; core data show orders up 1% (MarketWatch)
  16. Biden’s proposed budget to push spending to highest sustained levels since World War II: report (MarketWatch)
  17. Royal Caribbean Group (RCL) sets June return for sailing from the US (Street Insider)
  18. Goldman Sachs Upgrades Occidental Petroleum (OXY) to Buy (Street Insider)
  19. 5 High-Yielding Dividend Aristocrats May Be the Best Stocks to Own Now (24/7 Wall Street)
  20. White House sticks by Biden’s $4T spending plans despite Dimon warning (Fox Business)