Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Amazon Stock Split and Buyback Could Deliver Much-Needed Liftoff (bloomberg)
  2. House Passes $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill (barrons)
  3. China Supports Tech Firm U.S. IPO Revival, Signaling End to Freeze (bloomberg)
  4. JD Revenue Rises 23% in Defiance of China’s Consumption Slowdown (bloomberg)
  5. European Central Bank surprises markets with plan to wind down stimulus sooner than planned (cnbc)
  6. China’s 5.5% Growth Target Is a Big Reach (wsj)
  7. Inflation rises 7.9% in February, a new 40-year high (foxbusiness)
  8. Roblox (RBLX) for PlayStation Appears to Be on the Horizon (streetinsider)
  9. The Rich List: The 21st Annual Ranking of the Highest- Earning Hedge Fund Managers (institutionalinvestor)
  10. Russia rejects Ukraine ‘neutrality’ proposals at deadlocked talks (ft)
  11. The Big Read. The rising costs of China’s friendship with Russia (ft)
  12. ‘Brutal’ selling in speculative tech stocks knocks Tiger Cub hedge funds (ft)
  13. S. unemployment claims climb 11,000 to 227,000, but still near pandemic low (marketwatch)
  14. ‘We can’t stay in a state of panic.’ Forecaster who predicted a series of rolling bear markets has just turned bullish. (marketwatch)
  15. Walk and Chew Gum. The Energy Report 03/10/2022 (Phil Flynn)
  16. GE Holds the Line on 2022, Lays Out Its Future at Investor Meeting (barrons)
  17. These Beaten-Up Closed-End Funds Are Future Bargains (barrons)
  18. Wall Street Sends Fresh Alarms on Bond Liquidity as QE Era Ends (bloomberg)
  19. China’s February Auto Sales Get Boost From New-Energy Vehicles (bloomberg)
  20. United Airlines to Let Unvaccinated Workers Return (wsj)