Be in the know. 18 key reads for Friday…

  1. This forecast model says interest rates are nearing a peak. Bond investors will reap the rewards. (marketwatch)
  2. What to Buy Following an Epic Bond Rout (Barron’s)
  3. Home Depot uses Bluetooth to prevent stolen items from working and combat organized retail crime (marketwatch)
  4. Pfizer Just Made a Small Acquisition. It May Be More Important Than It Looks. (barron’s)
  5. This Auto Market Is Wild. Why Nothing Is as It Seems. (barron’s)
  6. Oil on track for second weekly fall after release of crude reserves (marketwatch)
  7. Berkshire Hathaway Piled Into HP. Now, the Debate Begins. (barron’s)
  8. Corporate Bonds Had Their Worst Quarter in Decades. Now for the Good News. (barron’s)
  9. Interest rates are nearing a peak. Bond investors will reap the rewards. (marketwatch)
  10. The stock market is behaving a lot like it did during the Iraq war. Here’s the future if the pattern continues. (marketwatch)
  11. Shanghai, in Lockdown, Struggles to Feed Itself (wsj)
  12. Tiger Woods Is Back at the Masters. So Are the Roars. (wsj)
  13. Blue-Collar Workers Make the Leap to Tech Jobs, No College Degree Necessary (wsj)
  14. Elon Musk’s One Twitter Board Seat May Be Enough (wsj)
  15. Jeep says its new electric Wrangler SUV concept goes 0-60 mph in 2 seconds (cnbc)
  16. Alibaba’s artificial intelligence tool to improve efficiency of China’s waste-to-energy plants (scmp)
  17. Spirit Airlines to start talks with JetBlue on its $3.6-billion bid (finance.yahoo)
  18. Elon Musk says 194 billion hamsters can fit inside Tesla’s new Gigafactory in Texas, which is as big as 3 Pentagons (businessinsider)