Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Hong Kong Stocks Cap Biggest Post-Lunar Holiday Gain Since 2009 (bloomberg)
  2. Nasdaq Index of China Stocks Shows Signs of Life After Pummeling (bloomberg)
  3. Amazon Stock Soars on Good Enough Earnings. Plus, the Price of Prime Is Going Up. (barrons)
  4. S. Added 467,000 Jobs in January. Omicron’s Impact Was Less Than Feared. (barrons)
  5. Expect a Post-Omicron Boom as Americans Binge on Services. Workers Are the Wild Card. (barrons)
  6. Wall Street Is Trying to Make Sense of Meta’s Earnings. It Isn’t Easy. (barrons)
  7. Emerging Market Value Stocks Look Ready to Run (barrons)
  8. The Right Way to Read Unemployment Data (barrons)
  9. The Growth Scare Is Receding. The Fed Policy Scare Is Here. What That Means for Investors. (barrons)
  10. This way of picking value stocks has actually worked — and Berkshire Hathaway screens the best (marketwatch)
  11. Opinion: This market-timing model has made stock investors more money than the ‘Super Bowl Predictor’ (marketwatch)
  12. S. Sees Iran’s Nuclear Program as Too Advanced to Restore Key Goal of 2015 Pact (wsj)
  13. Why the World’s Biggest Ocean Shipping Lines Are Buying Cargo Planes (wsj)
  14. BofA Strategists See Surging Equity Flows While Bonds Get Dumped (bloomberg)
  15. A fund manager whose energy bets have placed him in the top 4% of fund managers this year shares 6 stocks to watch in 2022 — and why oil is destined to slip to $65 per barrel (businessinsider)
  16. Why US workers will return to the labour market (ft)
  17. Meta’s dramatic fall masks strong earnings week across Big Tech (ft)
  18. S. 30-Year Real Yield Turns Positive as Fed Hike Bets Increase (bloomberg)
  19. Flatter U.S. Yield Curve Dominates Emerging-Market Trader Minds (bloomberg)
  20. Rate-Hike Bets Wipe Out $1.5 Trillion of Sub-Zero Debt in a Day (bloomberg)