Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Ignore the ‘top callers,’ there’s still ‘easy money’ to be made this year, hedge-fund manager says (MarketWatch)
  2. Value Stock Rally Buoys Returns of Dividend Payers (Barron’s)
  3. Banks could see a windfall as economy recovers: ‘Biggest reserve release in the history of banking’ (CNBC)
  4. BofA Hikes Price Target on GE (GE) to $13 After Raising Numbers Amid Covid-19 Update (Street Insider)
  5. Boeing (BA) Confirms Ryanair Ordered 75 More 737 MAX Jets (Street Insider)
  6. Paul Tudor Jones sees ‘massive boom’ after COVID-19 vaccine gets released (Yahoo! Finance)
  7. Moderna Says It Will Ship 100M-125M COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Worldwide In Q1 (Benzinga)
  8. Best Bet in a Down Year: The Dividend Aristocrats (Barron’s)
  9. Oil pushes toward $50 a barrel after OPEC+ deal to slowly taper production cuts (MarketWatch)
  10. Why a rising stock market and a weak dollar are likely to keep going hand in hand (MarketWatch)
  11. Marvell Stock Dips After Earnings Report Warns of Supply Constraints (Barron’s)
  12. Pfizer Denies Its Vaccine Production Is Seeing New Delays (Barron’s)
  13. Pfizer And Moderna Face Their Biggest Challenge: Vaccinating The World (Investor’s Business Daily)
  14. Where’s the stock market going next? Look at the 1960s for an answer, says a Fidelity strategist (MarketWatch)
  15. Mortgage Industry Roars to Best Year Ever, Courtesy of the Fed (Bloomberg)
  16. Pelosi and McConnell resume talks as Congress rushes to strike a Covid stimulus deal (CNBC)
  17. The 12 best Christmas songs to listen to this holiday season and beyond (New York Post)
  18. Coronavirus Stimulus Talks Moving in Right Direction, Party Leaders Say (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Dry Ice Demand Swells as Covid-19 Vaccines Prepare for Deployment (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Could the ‘China Hustle’ Law End the Big Short? (Institutional Investor)