Be in the know. 25 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Exxon Mobil stock rises again after J.P. Morgan analyst turns bullish for the first time in 7 years (MarketWatch)
  2. Oil Rally Will Continue as Producers Curb Supplies (Barron’s)
  3. 5 Stocks to Play the Next Surge in Natural Gas (Barron’s)
  4. GM Teased Flying Cars at CES. Its Ambitions Are Even Bigger. (Barron’s)
  5. LNG Cargo Prices Rising Faster Than Bitcoin (Yahoo! Finance)
  6. Regeneron Inks Deal to Sell Covid-19 Treatment to U.S., Even as Usage Lags (Barron’s)
  7. Barron’s Daily: The Apple Car Chatter Is Back—and It’s Helping Everyone Except Apple (Barron’s)
  8. Bristol Myers Looks to Drug Pipeline to Turbocharge Growth (Barron’s)
  9. Bank of America Stock Could Pop on Earnings. How to Play the Results. (Barron’s)
  10. What Eli Lilly’s Good News About Its Alzheimer’s Drug Means for Biogen (Barron’s)
  11. GM unveils self-driving Cadillac that can fly (New York Post)
  12. Atop the Powerful Budget Committee at Last, Bernie Sanders Wants to Go Big (New York Times)
  13. Bitcoin Will Break Wall Street’s Heart (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Walgreens to launch credit cards with Synchrony Financial and Mastercard (MarketWatch)
  15. Lagarde Blasts Bitcoin’s Role in Facilitating Money Laundering (Bloomberg)
  16. Occidental to Strip Carbon From the Air and Use It to Pump Crude (Bloomberg)
  17. 6 Energy Stocks Trading Well Below 52-Week Highs (247wallst)
  18. Schumer pledges quick delivery of $2,000 stimulus checks: ‘We will get that done’ (Fox Business)
  19. Mortgage refinancing jumps 20% to begin the year (Fox Business)
  20. Billionaire investor Howard Marks discussed Tesla’s valuation, growth vs value investing, and the Fed juicing markets in a recent interview. Here are the 8 best quotes. (Business Insider)
  21. Oil prices rise to near 1-year highs as vaccines, stimulus and Saudi Arabian production cuts lift the energy outlook (Business Insider)
  22. The bull market will continue in 2021 with stock holdings still well below dangerous Global Financial Crisis levels, JPMorgan says (Business Insider)
  23. Covid-19 Rapid-Test Sites Planned for New York Office Buildings (Wall Street Journal)
  24. New GM Electric-Truck Business Targets Delivery Market (Wall Street Journal)
  25. Big Real-Estate Firms Turn Buyers of Their Own Shares (Wall Street Journal)