Be in the know. 25 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. More Rate Scares Ahead for Stocks (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Exxon vs activists: can disenchanted investors force change? (Financial Times)
  3. US Treasury bond wobble heightens concerns over health of $21tn market (Financial Times)
  4. Financials may be a silver lining in bond market rout (Financial Times)
  5. Property and the pandemic: the great reckoning that never seems to arrive (Financial Times)
  6. Saudi Arabia says Khashoggi report won’t set back US relations (Financial Times)
  7. Bitcoin cannot replace the banks (Financial Times)
  8. Las Vegas Sands sells the Venetian, Sands Expo for $6.25B (FoxBusiness)
  9. SPACs are now a $700 billion market: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  10. Analysis: Fed may need more than words in next battle with markets (Reuters)
  11. Oil up as OPEC+ considers rollover rather than raising output (Street Insider)
  12. Apollo to Acquire Retailer Michaels for $3.3 Billion in Cash (Bloomberg)
  13. Companies Are Feeling the Inflation Pinch. What to Watch Next. (Barron’s)
  14. Forget GameStop. If You Want Real Risk, Invest in Supercars (Bloomberg)
  15. Fox News Finds It’s Back in Familiar Spot: Prime-Time Lead (Bloomberg)
  16. ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry says governments may ‘handicap’ bitcoin – and doubts it can disrupt global finance (Business Insider)
  17. Oil industry is getting greener faster as U.S. policy shifts to climate change (CNBC)
  18. Cruise Stocks Get Upgraded by Macquarie, Because Covid’s Worst Is in the Past (Barron’s)
  19. There Probably Won’t Be a Post-Covid Wave of Foreclosures (Barron’s)
  20. U.S. Vaccine Shortage Could Soon End With Oversupply (Barron’s)
  21. Democrats Are Already Looking Ahead to More Economic Relief (Barron’s)
  22. Here’s the problem the Fed is fueling — and it’s not inflation, strategist says (MarketWatch)
  23. Big Oil ‘Friends’ the Carbon Tax (Wall Street Journal)
  24. CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations (Wall Street Journal)
  25. Houston’s Big Oil Conference Goes Green as Energy Transition Accelerates (Wall Street Journal)