Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. OPEC+ Agrees to Extend Output Cuts as Quota Cheats Offer Penance (Bloomberg)
  2. Selloff reminiscent of an older bear market: Oakmark’s Nygren (CNBC)
  3. A Booming Stock Market Could Come Back to Bite the Recovery (Bloomberg)
  4. Can Big Business Fix Racial Injustice? It Has to Try. (Barron’s)
  5. 3 Stocks That Could Benefit When Dining Out Returns (Barron’s)
  6. Here are the 10 most under and overbought S&P 500 stocks, according to Goldman (MarketWatch)
  7. How the U.S. dollar’s ‘almost silent slide’ is juicing the stock-market rally (MarketWatch)
  8. These stocks rose by double digits Friday as underperforming sectors bounced back (MarketWatch)
  9. American Airlines stock adds to its tally of records with a weekly gain of over 75% (MarketWatch)
  10. Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp to spend over $115 million to address ‘economic and racial inequities’ (MarketWatch)
  11. Antibody Drugs Could Help Curb the Pandemic. What Investors Need to Know. (Barron’s)
  12. Occidental Stock Rockets 30% Higher (Barron’s)
  13. Amid U.S.-China Tensions, Active Managers Are Buying (Barron’s)
  14. U.S. Unemployment Rate Fell to 13.3% in May (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Home Prices Are Rising, Along With Post-Lockdown Demand (New York Times)
  16. Bears Thwarted Again by Stock Market That Believes in Recovery (Bloomberg)
  17. These 25 Photos Show Why Things Were Designed The Way They Were (Fetch Sport)
  18. Meet the estate agents turning themselves into superstars (Financial Times)
  19. The Art of Being Alone (Farnam Street)
  20. Jamie Dimon: Fed is bringing out the bazooka (YouTube)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Stocks Take Off as Jobs Come Back (Barron’s)
  2. China to Allow Foreign Airlines to Restore Some Flights After U.S. Pressure (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Time to Buy Emerging Markets? (Barron’s)
  4. Oil Rebounds as Market Waits for Production Cuts (Barron’s)
  5. Oil prices rise as OPEC+ seen setting stage for weekend meeting (MarketWatch)
  6. Casino Stocks Are Surging as Las Vegas Reopens (Barron’s)
  7. ‘Europe Finally Got the Message’: Leaders Act Together on Stimulus (New York Times)
  8. Researchers Retract Study Linking Malaria Pill to Heart Risk (Bloomberg)
  9. History Suggests the Handshake Will Survive the Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  10. Is the Coronavirus Really Getting Weaker? (Bloomberg)
  11. Trump Team Envisions Up to $1 Trillion for Next Stimulus Round (Bloomberg)
  12. Las Vegas Casinos Reopen With $30-a-Night Rooms on the Strip (Bloomberg)
  13. 10-year Treasury yield surges above 0.9% after better-than-expected jobs report (CNBC)
  14. The ‘Inconvenient Fact’ Behind Private Equity Outperformance (Institutional Investor)
  15. ‘The biggest payroll surprise in history’ — economists react to May jobs report (MarketWatch)
  16. India Stocks Set for Second Weekly Gain on Easing Lockdown (Bloomberg)
  17. European Central Bank Ramps Up Stimulus Program Beyond $1.5 Trillion (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Airlines Add Flights as Travel Slowed by the Coronavirus Starts to Pick Up (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Americans Are Saving More, but How Long Can It Last? (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Investors Climb Back Into Riskiest Emerging-Market Bonds (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. ECB to Spend Extra 600 Bn Euro on Emergency Bond Buys (Barron’s)
  2. Deutsche Bank Upgrades Wells Fargo (WFC) to Buy; Risks Priced In (Street Insider)
  3. The Morgan Wallen “Chasin’ You” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)… (Zero Hedge)
  4. Friday’s Job Report Could Support Recovery Hopes (Barron’s)
  5. Consumer Spending Trickles Back as U.S. Reopens (Barron’s)
  6. Podcast: The Paycheck Protection Program Is Starting to Run Out (Barron’s)
  7. History Can Show Us Why the Market Is Rising Now (Barron’s)
  8. Pinterest Accelerates Tech Projects as Pandemic Boosts User Engagement (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Fed Expands Municipal Bond Program, Opening Door to Some Smaller Cities (New York Times)
  10. Beijing to Give $1.7 Billion in Vouchers to Boost Shopping (Bloomberg)
  11. Global GDP Tracker’s 2.3% Drop in May Shows Worst Over (Bloomberg)
  12. Fauci (the Horse) Loses Race Badly in the Mud at Belmont Park (Bloomberg)
  13. European Central Bank takes its pandemic bond buying to 1.35 trillion euros to try and prop up economy (CNBC)
  14. Here are the 9 economic relief programs the Fed is using to combat coronavirus fallout (Business Insider)
  15. An oil CEO says crude prices could surge 90% to $70 by fall because US firms have ‘over-cut production’ (Business Insider)
  16. Saudi Arabia and Russia push for an extension to output cuts, OPEC+ meeting this week still possible (CNBC)
  17. American Airlines (AAL) Increases Domestic Flying for Summer Travel Season, Begins Reopening Admirals Clubs and Increases Flexibility (Street Insider)
  18. 10 US Oil Companies Still Likely to Thrive in 2030 (24/7 Wall Street)
  19. 1.88 million workers file for unemployment benefits (Yahoo! Finance)
  20. Nio stock surges after company posts record-high deliveries for May (MarketWatch)
  21. Homebuilders will benefit from Millennials leaving cities: Expert (Fox Business)
  22. U.S. banks attract bargain hunters (Reuters)
  23. Locked-Up Journalists. Espionage Investigations. Constitutional Challenges. The Government’s Release of Economic Data Was Arcane and Complex — Until Now. (Institutional Investor)
  24. Gilead Analyst: Coronavirus Drug, Arcus Collaboration Make Biopharma A Buy (Benzinga)
  25. Royal Caribbean to offer up to $2 billion in bonds and convertible bonds that mature in 2023 (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. ADP Employment Change (May) -2.76M vs -9M Expected (StreetInsider)
  2. Gilead developing inhaled remdesivir usable outside of hospitals (New York Post)
  3. Trump Administration Escalates Global Fight Over Taxing Tech (New York Times)
  4. Small banks and small businesses turned out to be a good combination when it came to PPP loans (USA Today)
  5. Eurozone services PMI climbs to 30.5 in May (MarketWatch)
  6. Restaurant bookings have fully recovered in Germany in a sign that activity rebounds quickly as lockdowns ease (MarketWatch)
  7. Here’s what the ECB has been buying with the special pandemic asset-purchase program that it is set to expand (MarketWatch)
  8. Barron’s Daily: Good News Stock Investors — the Dollar Is Slumping (MarketWatch)
  9. Gilead’s stock upgraded on high hopes for remdesivir revenue (MarketWatch)
  10. The No. 1 thing Americans are spending their stimulus checks on — even more than shopping at Costco, Walmart and Target (MarketWatch)
  11. Saudi, Russia reach deal on oil cuts, raising pressure for compliance (Reuters)
  12. China drives global oil demand recovery out of coronavirus collapse (Reuters)
  13. Boeing jumps after Third Point reveals stake in monthly report (TheFly)
  14. Real Estate Investors View Small Cities as Big Opportunities (Institutional Investor)
  15. China Caixin service PMI up sharply in May (MarketWatch)
  16. What Happened in 1968 Can Show Us Why the Market Is Rising Now (Barron’s)
  17. Lyft Says Ride Volumes Picked Up Smartly in May (Barron’s)
  18. Boeing and Airbus Will Benefit First From an Aerospace Recovery (Barron’s)
  19. A Relative Calm as U.S. Cities Undergo Curfews (Wall Street Journal)
  20. How many small businesses in US are now fully or partially open (Fox Business)
  21. Mortgage demand from homebuyers jumps 18%, as interest rates set another record low (CNBC)
  22. Heart Drugs Show Promise With Covid-19 Complications (Wall Street Journal)
  23. British Pound Climbs on Optimism Over EU Trade Talks (Wall Street Journal)
  24. Fed Promised to Buy Bonds but Is Finding Few Takers (Wall Street Journal)
  25. Coronavirus Stimulus Funds Are Largely Spoken for Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says (Reuters)
  2. Why Protests Rarely Rattle Markets (Barron’s)
  3. Coty shakes off Kylie Jenner problem, surges 20 percent after KKR buys stake (New York Post)
  4. American Exporters Sell Soy to China Despite Rising Tensions (Bloomberg)
  5. Pound Advances on Glimmer of Optimism Around Latest Brexit Talks (Bloomberg)
  6. Investment banks are torn on which way the market is heading. Citi warns stocks are ‘way ahead of reality,’ but JPMorgan says they can climb higher. (Business Insider)
  7. The pandemic leads to a running boom in America: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  8. Oil prices rise ahead of OPEC+ meeting on output cuts (Reuters)
  9. EasyJet to restart flights to 75% of route network by August (BBC)
  10. Oil Prices Mixed As OPEC Tries To Get Ahead Of New Flash Point (Investor’s Business Daily)
  11. Citi Option Trader Bets Nearly $1M On Long-Term Upside (Benzinga)
  12. The Buy-Side Trader Is Getting Outsourced in Coronavirus Crisis (Bloomberg)
  13. One in Four U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Are in Nursing Homes, Data Shows (Wall Street Journal)
  14. The Lancet’s Politicized Science on Antimalarial Drugs (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Buy Lilly, AbbVie and Merck, J.P. Morgan Says (Barron’s)
  16. Las Vegas Casinos Reopen This Week. The Stocks May Reap Different Fortunes. (Barron’s)
  17. Norwegian Cruise Stock Has Tumbled. The Company Has a New Top Investor. (Barron’s)
  18. Here Are Six Dividend Stocks With Solid Payout Prospects—and a Built-In Exit Strategy (Barron’s)
  19. Morgan Stanley Thinks a V-Shaped Recovery Is Possible (Barron’s)
  20. Who Can Get a Loan Through the Paycheck Protection Program? (Barron’s)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Monday…

  1. Wall Street and Fed fly blind as coronavirus upends annual stress tests (Reuters)
  2. Chinese manufacturing output surged the most in 9 years in May, signaling a coronavirus recovery. (Business Insider)
  3. OPEC+ to Discuss Short Extension of Oil Output Cuts (Bloomberg)
  4. Russians claim to have an effective treatment for the coronavirus, which hospitals will start using this month (CNBC)
  5. Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything (Medium)
  6. Tesla CEO Elon Musk Makes History With SpaceX (Barron’s)
  7. Not All Cyclicals Are Created Equal. These 7 Are Resilient. (Barron’s)
  8. Dollar Slides as Investors Regain Confidence in Global Economy (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Tenants Largely Stay Current on Rent, for Now (New York Times)
  10. Record Ratings and Record Chaos on Cable News (New York Times)
  11. Wuhan’s Mass Testing May Have Eradicated the Coronavirus (Bloomberg)
  12. The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya (Institutional Investor)
  13. Women-led hedge funds beat male rivals in coronavirus crisis (Financial Times)
  14. Nio CEO Says Tesla An Ally In Increasing Sales, Remains Bullish On Chinese EV Market Growth (Benzinga)
  15. Yale Epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine Should Be ‘Widely Available And Promoted Immediately’ As Standard Treatment (ZeroHedge)
  16. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Cheniere Energy, Delta Air Lines, Extended Stay And More (Benzinga)
  17. Goldman Sachs bets against the dollar as economies reopen (CNBC)
  18. 7 Cyclical Stocks That Can Ride Out the Coronavirus Slump (Barron’s)
  19. Europeans Want to Travel Again. What That Means for Booking Stock. (Barron’s)
  20. Remote Work Could Spark Housing Boom in Suburbs, Smaller Cities (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. SpaceX Speeding Astronauts to Space Station in Landmark Trip (Bloomberg)
  2. An Encouraging EIA Report (Futures Mag)
  3. Howard Marks: Get Used to Uncertainty (Institutional Investor)
  4. Powell says Fed ‘strongly committed’ to helping US economy (Financial Times)
  5. Under Pressure (The Reformed Broker)
  6. Latest memo from Howard Marks: Uncertainty II (OakTree)
  7. Lockdowns vs. the Vulnerable (Wall Street Journal)
  8. When Safety Proves Dangerous (Farnam Street)
  9. Top Value Managers Share Stock Ideas (Validea)
  10. Typical June Trading: Early Gains Tend to Fade After Mid-Month (Almanac Trader)
  11. Gordon Murray Says the Hotly Anticipated T.50 Will Be the Lightest Supercar Ever Made (Robb Report)
  12. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  13. 2021 Dodge Challenger ACR Is Being Benchmarked Against the Viper: Report (The Drive)
  14. The Beige Book And The Pig Farmer (NPR Planet Money)
  15. “We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country,” says a top former economic adviser to Obama. (POLITICO)
  16. How sugar can temporarily sabotage your immune system (CNET)
  17. Ryan Gosling’s ‘Wolfman’ Gears Up at Universal as Director Decision Nears (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
  18. A Giant Pension Bought Citigroup and CVS Stock. Here’s What It’s Selling. (Barron’s)
  19. Watch Musk, Leno Test Drive the Tesla Cybertruck (Popular Mechanics)
  20. Netflix comedy ‘Space Force’ shows real military branch’s struggle to be taken seriously (NBC News)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. How Fed Could Goose Economy via Yield-Curve Control (Bloomberg)
  2. JPMorgan provides 5 charts that suggest the stock market still has ‘plenty of room’ to rise from current levels (Business Insider)
  3. Ride the Travel Rebound With 7 Less Risky Stocks (Barron’s)
  4. Saudis transfer $40bn to back wealth fund’s spending spree (Financial Times)
  5. Disney World gets green light to reopen July 11 (CNBC)
  6. ‘Return-to-work’ bonuses of $450 a week, second stimulus checks: What’s being discussed in DC (CNBC)
  7. Trump’s China Response Leaves Room to De-Escalate Tensions (Bloomberg)
  8. The Really Big Stock Bull Case Says Fed Stimulus Doesn’t Go Away (Bloomberg)
  9. Texas Is Showing the World How to Reopen Cautiously (Bloomberg)
  10. Defense Stocks Lockheed, Northrop, L3Harris Just Below Buy Points In Coronavirus Market Rally (Investor’s Business Daily)
  11. How to Assess U.S. Threat to Delist Chinese Stocks (Barron’s)
  12. The Market’s Rally Could Linger for a Few Weeks. That Doesn’t Mean We’re in the Clear. (Barron’s)
  13. Casinos and Theme Parks Are Reopening This Summer. It Could Be Good News for Airlines. (Barron’s)
  14. 3 Airline Stocks That Can Benefit From a Pickup in Domestic Travel (Barron’s)
  15. Americans Are Getting Back on the Road. 3 Stocks to Buy. (Barron’s)
  16. Why the Stock Market Shrugged Off Escalating U.S.-China Tension This Week (Barron’s)
  17. U.S. oil futures up 88% in May, biggest monthly rise on record (MarketWatch)
  18. Plan to Save World’s Crops Lives in Norwegian Bunker (Wall Street Journal)
  19. William Lyon Built Homes in California and Survived Busts (Wall Street Journal)
  20. The Best James Bond Book for Summer—Especially This Summer (Wall Street Journal)
  21. Remote Work Could Spark Housing Boom in Suburbs, Smaller Cities (Wall Street Journal)
  22. Why is the U.S. stock market ignoring a brewing crisis in Hong Kong? (MarketWatch)
  23. Uneven Stock Recovery Divides Real-Estate Industry (Wall Street Journal)
  24. Elon Musk: “We Want to Be a Leader in Apocalypse Technology” (Futurism)
  25. Secretary Madeleine Albright — Optimism, the Future of the US, and 450-Pound Leg Presses (#437) (Tim Ferriss)

Be in the know. 12 key reads for Friday…

  1. Here’s what the Fed will do next, according to a Goldman Sachs economist (MarketWatch)
  2. BAE Systems Stock Should Be on Investors’ Radar. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  3. The Market May Have Gotten Ahead of Itself. But Cyclicals Still Look Cheap. (Barron’s)
  4. Sales Challenges Prove that Luxury Carmakers Aren’t Covid-Immune (Barron’s)
  5. Tesla’s Elon Musk just scored this massive payday (Fox Business)
  6. The Dirty Secret of Asset Management: It’s Doing…Okay? (Institutional Investor)
  7. How investors learnt to love the rally in stocks (Financial Times)
  8. Alan Jackson is the latest country star to play outdoor drive-in concerts (USA Today)
  9. Scientists Question Study Linking Malaria Drugs to Covid Risks (Bloomberg)
  10. Americans Have Stopped Thinking the Economy Is Getting Worse (Bloomberg)
  11. Sweden’s Economy Grew Last Quarter, Adding to Covid-19 Debate (Bloomberg)
  12. Mnuchin’s $29 Billion Loan Fund Untapped as Airlines Eye Rebound (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Boeing Restarts 737 Max Production As Massive Job Cuts Detailed (Investor’s Business Daily)
  2. The Dua Lipa “Did a full 180” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)… (ZeroHedge)
  3. Vacation rentals around the world have jumped 127% since early April in a sign that people are slowly starting to travel again (Business Insider)
  4. Why Ackman Sold His Berkshire Hathaway Stake (Barron’s)
  5. Regal Owner Cineworld to Reopen Cinemas in July. That’s Not The Only Reason The Stock Is Soaring. (Barron’s)
  6. Battered Delta Stock Could Take Off. Here’s How to Play It. (Barron’s)
  7. Papa John’s second record sales month sends stocks soaring (New York Post)
  8. Apple Lands Martin Scorsese Movie Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter fact-checking Trump: Companies shouldn’t serve as ‘arbiter of truth’ (USA Today)
  10. Roche Partners With Gilead in Covid Trial of Drug Combination (Bloomberg)
  11. Jamie Dimon Captures the Stock Market Moment (Bloomberg)
  12. With M&A Dead, Wall Street Bankers Keep Busy With Stock Sales (Bloomberg)
  13. Jobless claims rise over 2 million again but data offer glimmer of hope (MarketWatch)
  14. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says U.S. economy starting to ‘come out of the hole’ (CNBC)
  15. Dollar General (DG) Tops Q1 EPS by 86c, Same-Store Sales Increased 21.7% (Street Insider)
  16. Toll Brothers (TOL) Tops Q2 EPS by 11c (Street Insider)
  17. 4 Dow Stocks to Buy Now That Have Lagged the Huge Rally (24/7 Wall Street)
  18. Ex-White House adviser Gary Cohn: Congress must act to help US recovery (Fox Business)
  19. Zuckerberg and Dorsey clash as Trump order looms (Financial Times)
  20. Hedge Funds Said One Thing. Their Portfolios Show Another. (Institutional Investor)