Be in the know. 30 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Highlights from Charlie Munger at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting (Yahoo! Finance)
  2. You May Not Want It. The Energy Report 02/25/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  3. As the vaccine rollout gathers pace, this could be the ‘trade of the decade’ (MarketWatch)
  4. Nothing Lucid About a $57 Billion Valuation for an Electric-Vehicle Startup (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Big Banks Love Rising Interest Rates: 4 Dividend Stocks to Buy Now (24/7 Wall Street)
  6. DoorDash Investors Should Relish Their Feast (Wall Street Journal)
  7. U.S. Food and Drug Administration Analysis of Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Finds Safe and Effective—EUA Anticipated Soon (trialsitenews)
  8. Pfizer Will Test Third Dose of Vaccine to Protect Against Variants (Barron’s)
  9. A New Oil Dividend Trend Could Pay Off for Investors (Barron’s)
  10. A new wave of fearless retail investors could be ready to pour $170 billion into stocks, says Deutsche Bank (MarketWatch)
  11. Dividends Could Rise 5% in a Rebound Year, Helped by More Special Payouts (Barron’s)
  12. Here are 3 reasons that the stock market can survive rising bond yields in 2021 (MarketWatch)
  13. Opinion: These 15 companies are run in a Warren Buffett-like way (MarketWatch)
  14. Paramount+ promises a ‘Godfather’ streaming series and a ‘Frasier’ reboot. (New York Times)
  15. Losing Bid for Postal Contract Proves Costly for Electric-Vehicle Maker (New York Times)
  16. UBS Upgrades AstraZeneca (AZN:LN) (AZN) to Buy on ‘Much Cleaner Pro-Forma Profile’ (Street Insider)
  17. Charlie Munger Talks Bitcoin, SPACs And GameStop Mania: ‘It Must End Badly, But I Don’t Know When’ (Benzinga)
  18. Boeing Trying To Resume Max 737 Flights In Asia: Report (Benzinga)
  19. Powell pulls his punches on benefits of more fiscal stimulus (Financial Times)
  20. Inflation fears rattle global bond markets (Financial Times)
  21. Buffett’s Letter to Break Months of Silence Amid Tumult in U.S. (Bloomberg)
  22. SPAC and ESG Fads on Collision Course With Billions at Stake (Bloomberg)
  23. Cathie Wood’s Tesla Noise Is Deafening Investors (Bloomberg)
  24. Chevron CEO on modern leadership: You can’t be afraid to make yourself heard (CNBC)
  25. Australia passes law to make Google, Facebook pay for news (USA Today)
  26. J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Safe and Effective, FDA Says, Paving Way for Approval (Wall Street Journal)
  27. Israeli Study Finds Pfizer Shot Equally Effective for Young and Old (Wall Street Journal)
  28. Saudi Arabia Borrows at Negative Rates for First Time as Oil Recovers (Wall Street Journal)
  29. Why Higher Rates Are Hammering Big Tech (Wall Street Journal)
  30. Yellen describes vaccines as global economy’s ‘strongest stimulus’ in G-20 letter (MarketWatch)