Be in the know. 30 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. PayPal Stock Rises Sharply After Beat-and-Raise Quarter (barrons)
  2. China’s Xi calls for faster measures to boost domestic consumption (ft)
  3. Alibaba’s Taobao and ByteDance’s Douyin seek e-commerce price war detente with new policies (scmp)
  4. PayPal’s stock gains as earnings bring big positive surprise on this key number (marketwatch)
  5. Pfizer beats earnings estimates, hikes full-year outlook as drugmaker cuts costs (cnbc)
  6. ‘Fed Whisperer’ Nick Timiraos: Fed May Signal Sep’s Rate Cut (aastocks)
  7. Alibaba Shares Jump on Plans to Boost Service Fee for Merchants (bloomberg)
  8. In the 1,500, There’s Katie Ledecky and Then There’s Everyone Else (nytimes)
  9. Japan Wanted Higher Inflation. It’s Here, and It Hurts. (nytimes)
  10. Alibaba Cloud raises prices for domain name auctions amid AI compute price war (scmp)
  11. Nvidia Stock Swoon Didn’t Slow CEO Jensen Huang’s Sales (barrons)
  12. Alibaba’s Monetization Moves The Stock, Domestic Investors Plead “Jia You” (chinalastnight)
  13. Boeing Has a New CEO Candidate. (barrons)
  14. The Olympics Are Here. Take Gold With These 3 Stocks. (barrons)
  15. Why 3M Stock Rose 23% on Friday (and Why Investors Should Have Seen It Coming) (barrons)
  16. Guinness a bright spot as Johnnie Walker-maker Diageo drops on full-year sales decline (cnbc)
  17. Don’t Count on a Fed Rate Cut to Boost Stocks (barrons)
  18. Newell Stock Got a Boost From Earnings. CEO Says Stressed Consumers Won’t Hold It Back. (barrons)
  19. Investors on Alert for September Rate Cut Signals (wsj)
  20. Traders are focused on a central bank this week. But it may not be the Fed. (marketwatch)
  21. What to look for in Friday’s jobs report (marketwatch)
  22. Surge in Commercial-Property Foreclosures Suggests Bottom Is Near (wsj)
  23. In a Troubled Box Office, Premium Still Sells (wsj)
  24. Why Global Investors Are Watching What Japan Does Next (nytimes)
  25. The Science Behind Olympic Greatness, Revealed Through Motion (nytimes)
  26. Starbucks CEO Gets Cover for a Belated Overhaul (bloomberg)
  27. Inside The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Annual General Meeting
  28. Houston Cofield/Bloomberg
  29. Buffett Cuts BofA Stake, Unloading $3 Billion This Month (bloomberg)
  30. Inside the race to make the world’s fastest running shoes (ft)