Be in the know. 27 key reads for Thursday…

  1. China’s Economy Shows Signs of Life. It Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet. (barrons)
  2. Individual investors sold nearly $16 billion worth of stocks in October (bloomberg)
  3. Ford Stock Rises. The Company’s Guidance Surprised. (barrons)
  4. Xi’s Shanghai Trip Demonstrates Support For Real Estate, Technology Sectors (chinalastnight)
  5. Inflation hits lowest level since 2021, Fed’s preferred gauge shows (yahoo)
  6. Henry Kissinger, Who Helped Forge U.S. Foreign Policy During Vietnam and Cold Wars, Dies at 100 (wsj)
  7. Former secretary of state and national security adviser preached and personified realpolitik (ft)
  8. GM’s $10 Billion Apology (wsj)
  9. Alibaba pushes new AI tool to help wholesale merchants manage overseas clients (scmp)
  10. Consumer-spending slowdown could add to improving inflation picture (marketwatch)
  11. US Clean Energy Stocks Have Lost $30 Billion In Value In The Last 6 Months (zerohedge)
  12. “Mr. President, Tap The Brakes”: 3,900 Auto Dealers Warn EV Demand Crumbling (zerohedge)
  13. It’s Tesla Cybertruck Day. Price Is a Big Mystery. (barrons)
  14. PCE Inflation Slips as Expected. The Fed Could Mull Rate Cuts. (barrons)
  15. 7% Dividend Yields or Higher: The S&P 500’s 6 Best Payouts (barrons)
  16. Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the EV Slowdown and ‘Terrible’ Human Drivers (barrons)
  17. Fed’s Beige Book finds economy has slowed — and so has inflation (marketwatch)
  18. The Fed Is Tightening More Than It Says (barrons)
  19. How ‘Value’ Stocks Like Bank of America Can Trounce Growth for a While (barrons)
  20. For Collector Cars, Specialized Insurance Is Both Cheaper and Much Better (barrons)
  21. Jobless claims tick higher, and continuing claims are highest in two years (marketwatch)
  22. Charlie Munger’s Life Was About Way More Than Money (wsj)
  23. Fed’s Bostic Says Evidence Points to Downward Path for Inflation (bloomberg)
  24. Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition (wsj)
  25. Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS (ft)
  26. Fed’s Williams Expects Policy to Stay Restrictive for Some Time (bloomberg)
  27. Schizophrenia Is Coming for the Election-Year Economy (bloomberg)