Be in the know. 15 key reads for Good Friday…

  1. US job growth slows in March as economy adds 236,000 new positions. US economy adds 236,000 jobs in March, slowest pace of growth in over 2 years (foxbusiness)
  2. REITs Are Battered. It Could Be Time to Nibble on a Few. (barrons)
  3. Alibaba Touts ChatGPT Challenger Ahead of Main Event (bloomberg)
  4. Amid warnings for the sector, these 11 commercial REIT stocks are loved by analysts, who see upside of up to 47% (marketwatch)
  5. ‘Take a deep breath’: Jamie Dimon says banking crisis raises risk of recession, but it’s not 2008 all over again (marketwatch)
  6. Latest Fed Increase Came Down to the Wire. ‘That Was a Rough Weekend.’ (wsj)
  7. The Sizzling Snooze of Golf Star Scottie Scheffler (wsj)
  8. Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Include Chat AI (wsj)
  9. Declines in Loan Values Are Widespread Among Banks (wsj)
  10. Bosses Want Hard Workers—So They’re Hiring Older People (wsj)
  11. Schwab Reveals $53 Billion in New Client Assets in March, Seeking to Calm Investors (bloomberg)
  12. Macron Urges Xi to Bring Putin ‘Back to Reason’ Over Ukraine (bloomberg)
  13. Global Food Costs Mark One Year of Drops, at Odds With Inflation (bloomberg)
  14. NFT Sales Collapse As “Crypto Bros” Rein In Luxury Spending (zerohedge)
  15. China’s stocks hit one-month high on rising turnover, policy support (scmp)