Be in the know. 20 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Merck’s Covid-19 Antiviral Shows Early Promise (Barron’s)
  2. How Wall Street’s 24 Best-Loved Stocks Can Help Tell What’s Ahead (Barron’s)
  3. Theater Chains Were at Hollywood’s Mercy During Pandemic. That May Be Changing. (Barron’s)
  4. Why One Coca-Cola Skeptic Is Now a Believer Again (Barron’s)
  5. Another Costco Bull Defends the Stock Post-Earnings (Barron’s)
  6. Why David Tepper says ‘it’s very difficult to be bearish’ on the stock market (MarketWatch)
  7. Airbnb, Lyft and Other Stocks Set to Benefit From a Consumer Spending Boom (Barron’s)
  8. Vaccinated Americans, Let the Unmasked Gatherings Begin (but Start Small) (New York Times)
  9. Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Shot Neutralizes Brazilian Strain in Lab (Bloomberg)
  10. China’s $1 Trillion Stock Rout Tests Limit of State Intervention (Bloomberg)
  11. Rise of the retail army: the amateur traders transforming markets (Financial Times)
  12. Private Equity’s Time May Have Come for Bank Deals (Wall Street Journal)
  13. This Isn’t Inflation’s TIP-ping Point (Wall Street Journal)
  14. House Progressives Back Revised Covid-19 Aid Bill as Vote Nears (Wall Street Journal)
  15. The Energy Report 03/09/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  16. Walgreens has administered 5 million COVID-19 vaccine shots (MarketWatch)
  17. Shell Strikes $926 Million Deal to Sell Oil Assets in Egyptian Desert (Yahoo! Finance)
  18. OPEC’s sneaky oil move may leave energy markets thirsty (Fox Business)
  19. Cliff Asness Has Once Again Come to Value’s Defense (Institutional Investor)
  20. AMC Sees Price Target Doubled At Wedbush Amid Meme Stock Renaissance (Benzinga)