- PBOC Injects Record Liquidity Using Its New Tool, Delays RRR Cut (bloomberg)
- China stocks set for US$236 billion influx from state-owned investors: UBS (scmp)
- China’s Great Coupon Handout Puts Band-Aid on Weak Consumption (bloomberg)
- Nvidia Slashes $600B in Market Cap. It’s the Biggest Loss in a Single Day. (barrons)
- Tech stocks plunge as Wall Street fears stretched valuations. Will value stocks win? (marketwatch)
- What Is DeepSeek? Everything to Know About China’s ChatGPT Rival and Why It Might Mean the End of the AI Trade. (barrons)
- Rare China Support Shows Vanke May Be Too Big to Fail (bloomberg)
- Estée Lauder Reviews Brands Amid Management Change (The Lauder family owns about 38% of Estée Lauder’s total common stock and about 86% of the voting power) (bloomberg)
- Young Americans Are Drinking Less—But Can It Last? (bloomberg)
- What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector? (reuters)
- DeepSeek FAQ (stratechery)
- Boeing may soon sell some of its businesses. That could finally boost the stock. (marketwatch)
- Trump Says Colombia Will Accept Deportees, Ending Tariff Standoff (wsj)
- DeepSeek Undercuts Belief That Chip-Hungry U.S. Players Will Win AI Race (wsj)
- A Chinese A.I. Company Rattles the Tech World (nytimes)
- AI-Fueled Stock Rally Dealt $1 Trillion Blow by Chinese Upstart (bloomberg)
- BOJ Watchers Think Next Interest Rate Hike Will Be in Six Months (bloomberg)
- Yuan Investors on Edge as China’s Holiday May Spur Swings (bloomberg)
- Beacon Roofing CEO describes dealings with QXO as takeover bid heats up (cnbc)
- Chinese tech stocks gain as Hong Kong index bucks trend (ft)
- DeepSeek changes rules of AI’s great game (ft)
- Starbucks cracks down on freeloaders to reverse sales decline (ft)
- Beijing unveils US$7.2 billion injection of insurer capital for stocks (scmp)
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Indicator of the Day (video): NYSE High Low Index
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- China Boosts Index Investments in Latest Bid to Revive Market (bloomberg)
- Building-Products Distributor QXO Launching Hostile Bid for Beacon (wsj)
- Why America is in an alcohol recession (thehustle)
- Chinese AI applications now have bigger aims — they’re looking beyond chatbots (cnbc)
- China’s central bank conducts 14-day reverse repos ‘to inject liquidity into the market and boost confidence’ (globaltimes)
- Tom Brady and His Watch Are Both Modern Sports Icons (gq)
- Lamborghini Revuelto vs. McLaren 750S: Which Supercar Is Best? — Performance Car of the Year 2025 (roadandtrack)
- The BoJ’s Dangerous Confidence (gavekal)
- Bryson DeChambeau’s LIV Golf wealth fueling ‘mega-project’ (golf)
- ‘I got better at life’: Why Joel Dahmen trained with a Navy Seal (golf)
- Diageo Doesn’t Intend to Sell Guinness, Moet Hennessy Stake (bloomberg)
- Trump vs Powell: Who will drive the stock market as the Fed holds its first meeting of the year? (marketwatch)
- This Wegovy user spent $5,000 on a new wardrobe after losing 80 pounds — and she’s not alone (marketwatch)
- This Trend Could Spell Trouble for Bank Stocks (barrons)
- Germany’s Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B (wsj)
Indicator of the Day (video): S&P Consumer Staples Stocks Above 200 EMA
Quote of the Day…
Be in the know. 13 key reads for Sunday…
- So Much for Tariffs? Businesses Could Avoid Paying $250 Billion in Levies, Goldman Sachs Says. (barrons)
- Investors Bet Trump Will Make Europe Investable Again (wsj)
- Trump Tries to Forge ‘Golden Age’ Economy of Self-Reliance and Defiance (wsj)
- Business elites truly believe Trump could be on the verge of solving one of the world’s most difficult problems: The Ukraine War (com)
- The podcast bros who helped put Trump back in the White House (ft)
- ‘Leveraged to the hilt’: PE-backed firms hit by wave of bankruptcies (ft)
- How Canada Goose went from making Antarctic outerwear to selling luxury status symbols, and where it goes from here (businessinsider)
- 10 Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $10 (morningstar)
- The Cheat Sheet on Trump’s First Week (nytimes)
- 2021-2024 Textbook 4-Year Cycle in The Books (jeffhirsch)
- Javier Milei’s free-market shock therapy to transform Argentina’s economy gets huge endorsement as sudden growth rebound seen (fortune)
- How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party? (economist)
- The 18 Best New Supercars of 2025 (robbreport)