Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Someone’s Betting Big on an S&P 500 Rebound as Sell-Off Worsens (Bloomberg)
  2. Worried? History Says Don’t Be — Yet  (Barron’s)
  3. Bill Ackman Is Betting Big on Berkshire Hathaway  (Barron’s)
  4. The case for higher oil prices (Barron’s)
  5. President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was a “great leader” and posed setting up a “personal meeting” to solve escalating protests in Hong Kong. (Business Insider)
  6. After the yield curve inverts — here’s how the stock market tends to perform since 1978 (MarketWatch)
  7. Lumber Liquidators: Get in on the Ground Floor (Wall Street Journal)
  8. U.S. retail sales surge in July in boost to economy (Reuters)
  9. Stocks set for strong open after China says it hopes to meet halfway on trade issues (CNBC)
  10. Warren Buffett Is a Huge Backer of U.S. Banks (Wall Street Journal)