Be in the know. 22 key reads for Friday…

  1. China Has ‘a Lot of Room’ to Raise Fiscal Deficit, Xinhua Says (bloomberg)
  2. 10-year Treasury yield falls to lowest since mid-October after strong jobs report (marketwatch)
  3. Intel’s New Board Members Offer Clues About CEO Search (barrons)
  4. Trump picks former senator Perdue for ambassador to China (ft)
  5. Intel adds some much-needed help to its board (marketwatch)
  6. BofA’s Hartnett Warns Froth Is Building in US Stocks, Crypto (bloomberg)
  7. Hiring Bounced Back in November, With 227,000 Jobs Added (wsj)
  8. Unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% (wsj)
  9. Trump Picks Musk Confidant as AI, Crypto Czar (wsj)
  10. As the U.S. Stock Market Booms, It’s Time to Look Abroad. 12 Picks From Our Experts. (barrons)
  11. Temu’s Operations Suspended in Vietnam (wsj)
  12. For Small-Cap Stocks, Look Past the ‘Trump Trade’ (wsj)
  13. This market maven raised his S&P 500 target three times this year. Now he says there’s too many bulls (marketwatch)
  14. Stock buybacks soar as holiday rally breaks records (marketwatch)
  15. Wall Street veteran David Rosenberg offers up apology for his stock-market pessimism (marketwatch)
  16. Hong Kong stocks rise on stimulus hopes ahead of key China economic meeting (scmp)
  17. Investors search for fresh China stimulus signs ahead of economic conference (scmp)
  18. Xinhua Editorial Highlights Domestic Consumption Increase (chinalastnight)
  19. BOJ is holding cards close to its chest on December rate hike (reuters)
  20. Hong Kong’s IPO Activity Emerges From Drought (wsj)
  21.  AlipayHK Becomes Official Partner of NBA China Games (aastocks)
  22. Is This Wildly Overvalued Stock Market Doomed? Yes, but Maybe Not Yet (wsj)