Be in the know. 25 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Financial Stocks Rally as Jefferies Turns Bullish Through 2021 (Bloomberg)
  2. Opinion: Put bank stocks in the ‘buy’ pile if you think a coronavirus vaccine will help mend the economy (MarketWatch)
  3. Pfizer’s Final Analysis Shows Covid Vaccine is 95% Effective (Barron’s)
  4. The MAX Jet Is Back. It’s Good for More Stocks Than Boeing. (Barron’s)
  5. U.S. housing starts beat expectations in October (Reuters)
  6. Apple to Cut App Store Fees in Half for Most Developers (Yahoo! Finance)
  7. Hospitals may limit access to Eli Lilly COVID-19 treatment (New York Post)
  8. FDA Gives Nod To First COVID-19 At-Home Rapid Test (Benzinga)
  9. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Bids for Simon & Schuster (New York Times)
  10. Disappearing Tweets? Twitter Now Has a Feature for That (New York Times)
  11. Warren Buffett is Hiding Something Big (Street Insider)
  12. ‘The Squad’ pushes Biden to cancel student debt — here’s how they’d personally benefit (Fox Business)
  13. Tire Maker Michelin Could Get a Lift From More Drivers (Barron’s)
  14. How Bad Is Amazon Pharmacy for CVS and Walgreens? (Barron’s)
  15. Here’s why stocks can climb 15% next year, according to JPMorgan’s strategists (MarketWatch)
  16. ‘Keep the faith, trust the recovery’ — Morgan Stanley raises its S&P 500 target but says it won’t be a smooth ride (MarketWatch)
  17.  The ECB May Loosen Its Dividend Ban, so Eurozone Banks Should Narrow the Gap With UBS, Goldman Sachs Says (Barron’s)
  18. Fund managers have hopped on the rotation-to-value trade, latest Bank of America survey shows (MarketWatch)
  19. Japan’s exports nearly back at pre-COVID levels (MarketWatch)
  20. U.S. Retail Sales Climbed at a Slower Pace in October (Wall Street Journal)
  21. Moderna and Pfizer Are Reinventing Vaccines, Starting With Covid (Wall Street Journal)
  22. Mortgage demand from homebuyers surges after election pause (CNBC)
  23. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Says Congress Is Being ‘Childish’ on Stimulus (Bloomberg)
  24. Goldman Sachs says commodities poised for bull market (Reuters)
  25. Pfizer says it will seek U.S. emergency-use authorization within days for coronavirus vaccine (MarketWatch)