Be in the know. 26 key reads for Friday…

  1. Ryan Cohen Boosts Alibaba Stake to $1 Billion (wsj)
  2. Ant Group’s Profit Rises With Jack Ma Back in the Public Eye (bloomberg)
  3.  “The whole idea hopefully is lower the value of the dollar, lower the value of interest rates, bring down the debt burden in the country. And that’s what they’re trying to do.” (bloomberg)
  4. Japan’s inflation rate climbs to a 2-year high of 4% in January, supporting rate hike calls from BOJ members (cnbc)
  5. Alibaba to ramp up AI, cloud investments as quarterly profit surges (scmp)
  6. Fed Minutes Reveal Little Appetite for Near-Term Rate Cuts (wsj)
  7. The Wild Economics Behind Ferrari’s Domination of the Luxury Car Market (wsj)
  8. China’s Power Elite: A Guide to the Tech Kingpins Who Met Xi Jinping (wsj)
  9. The Weird New Putting Technique That’s Driving the Golf World Completely Nuts (wsj)
  10. Drop Your Gloves! Are Team USA and Canada Delivering the Hockey Showdown of the Decade? (wsj)
  11. USA vs. Canada: Teams all tied up in third period of 4 Nations finale thriller (nypost)
  12. Nikola, E.V. Start-Up That Once Thrilled Investors, Files for Bankruptcy (nytimes)
  13. Elon Musk wields chainsaw on stage, says he and Trump are battling ‘the matrix’ (usatoday)
  14. Boeing CEO says Musk ‘helping in a big way’ on timing of Air Force One planes (usatoday)
  15. Hedge Funds Reload Option Trades for Yen Gains in Coming Months (bloomberg)
  16. Trump Meets Tiger Woods, Golf Execs as PGA Tour-Saudi Deal Looms (bloomberg)
  17. US Mortgage Rates Drop for Fifth-Straight Week, Falling to 6.85% (bloomberg)
  18. Fed’s Bostic Sees Two Cuts in 2025 Amid Uncertain Outlook (bloomberg)
  19. Alibaba shares soar 11% in Hong Kong after stellar earnings as China’s e-commerce sector recovers (cnbc)
  20. Magnificent Who? The S&P 500 Powers Ahead Without Big Tech. (barrons)
  21. Palantir extends losses on report of defense budget cut (streetinsider)
  22. Ant Group jumps into humanoid robots as China’s AI advances (scmp)
  23. Alibaba Cloud AI model Animate Anyone 2 simplifies making of lifelike character animation (scmp)
  24. Alibaba’s AI Bonanza, Trump China Comments & Premier Li on Raising Domestic Consumption (chinalastnight)
  25. China backs Trump’s Ukraine peace bid at G20 as US allies rally behind Zelenskiy (reuters)
  26. Dollar hits year-to-date lows as bulls get nervous (reuters)