Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. 5 COVID-19 Casualty Stocks to Buy With Big-Time Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
  2. Retest Possible, But Bottom Likely In as Jobless Claims Trend Lower (Almanac Trader)
  3. Oil Futures Pricing in Tighter Supplies (Futures Mag)
  4. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Barry Rosenstein, Jim Simons, Marshall Wace LLP, Selwood Asset Management, Pantera Capital, Vivint Smart Home Inc (VVNT), Penn National Gaming, Inc (PENN), and More (InsiderMonkey)
  5. Space Force unveils flag; Trump touts ‘super-duper missile’ (AP)
  6. President Trump unveils new vaccine effort ‘Operation Warp Speed’ (OANN)
  7. This Art Installation Of A Giant Wave In South Korea Is Honestly Pretty Chill (digg)
  8. Saudi wealth fund boosts U.S. holdings with stakes in Citi, Boeing, Facebook (OANN)
  9. Brabham Automotive Unleashes BT62 Race Car (Maxim)
  10. Seth Klarman: Top 10 Holdings (Q1 2020) (The Acquirers Multiple)
  11. Rethinking Fear (Farnam Street)
  12. 2020 Ferrari F8 Tributo review: Somehow, it got better (cnet)
  13. A Strategy for Reopening New York City’s Economy (Manhattan Institute)
  14. Reopening Sports: Does MMA Point The Way? (NPR Planet Money)
  15. Young Bulls and Old Bears (The Irrelevant Investor)
  16. Major tax benefits for Tesla if Elon Musk moves production from California (Fox Business)
  17. Maximilian Schneider Designs a 21st Century Batmobile Dubbed The Koenigsegg Konigsei Concept (Luxuo)
  18. Your Ultimate Grill Buying Guide—Tested and Approved (Popular Mechanics)
  19. “Poison Pills” Make Comeback at Hollywood Firms Bracing for Hostile Takeovers (Hollywood Reporter)
  20. Stock Market Keeping Score in the Three-Front War Against the Virus (Yardeni)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Newly Flush PNC Could Kick Off the Next Round of Bank M&A (Barron’s)
  2. Oil Market Dazzled With a Swift Delivery of Supply Cuts (Bloomberg)
  3. Slash tax rate in half for corporations returning to US, White House adviser suggests (New York Post)
  4. McConnell says next stimulus must have coronavirus liability protections (New York Post)
  5. Appaloosa buys Twitter, Netflix stakes, exits Caesars, cuts Facebook position (TheFly)
  6. TSA Preparing to Check Passenger Temperatures at Airports Amid Coronavirus Concerns (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Wells Fargo Has Lost $220 Billion in Market Value Under Fed Cap (Bloomberg)
  8. Inside the Science and Companies Racing to Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine (Barron’s)
  9. John Malone Has a Great Investing Record. Here’s How to Play Along. (Barron’s)
  10. How Investors Should Evaluate Energy Bonds — And the Funds That Own Them (Barron’s)
  11. This Economist Sees a ‘Regime Change’ Favoring Stockpickers (Barron’s)
  12. Assessing the stock market after one of the fastest declines and subsequent comebacks in history (CNBC)
  13. On Furlough From the Kingdom, Disney Workers Try to Keep the Magic Alive (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Michael Jordan Didn’t Manage People, He Lit Them on Fire (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Car Makers See Chinese Market Picking Up (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Bill Murray drinks, jokes with Guy Fieri on Nacho Showdown: ‘Truth is, he’s a redhead’ (USA Today)
  17. Google Antitrust Lawsuit Being Drafted by U.S Justice Department (Bloomberg)
  18. Next coronavirus aid package expected to become reality ‘in June at the earliest,’ as House passes its bill (MarketWatch)
  19. Is this the pullback you’ve been waiting for? (QuantifiableEdges)
  20. JPMorgan Bets on a Dash for the Suburbs (Institutional Investor)
  21. What Happens to Stocks After a Big Up Month? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  22. Bill Miller doesn’t see market as ‘dramatically overvalued,’ says Amazon could double in 3 years (CNBC)
  23. Loeb’s Third Point Builds Stake in Disney, Exits Campbell Soup (Bloomberg)
  24. Saudi wealth fund snaps up $7.7bn of blue-chip stocks (Financial Times)
  25. How bank hedging jolted investors into talk of negative rates (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Value Stocks Look Cheaper Than Ever. How to Play a Rebound. (Barron’s)
  2. ‘Stealth Bailout’ Shovels Millions of Dollars to Oil Companies (Bloomberg)
  3. TikTok Raises Profile As Digital Ad Rival To Snap, Facebook, Google (Investor’s Business Daily)
  4. The Oil Market Is Changing Its Tune (Barron’s)
  5. GE Stock Dropped Again. Here’s What’s Going Right. (Barron’s)
  6. Factory Output in China Surged in April (Barron’s)
  7. NYSE Will Partially Reopen Its Trading Floor (Barron’s)
  8. Meet the trikini, beach fashion’s answer to coronavirus (New York Post)
  9. McDonald’s Details What Dining In Will Look Like (New York Times)
  10. Elon Musk’s Boring Company completes second tunnel in Las Vegas (USA Today)
  11. Wealthy Travelers Are Starting to Book Year-End Vacations (Bloomberg)
  12. Are We Asking Too Much of Testing? (Bloomberg)
  13. Drive-in theaters have become a safe haven for moviegoers. Here’s what it’s like to visit one (CNBC)
  14. Who’s on The Hook for Skipped Mortgage Payments? (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Economic Shock of Virus Hit Lower-Income Households Harder, Fed Finds (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Time for GE to Bring Good Things Back to Life (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Oil back at early April highs as demand shows signs of picking up (Street Insider)
  18. PPP Loans Under $2 Million Get A Significant Waiver From SBA (Yahoo! Finance)
  19. Ross to Bartiromo: Taiwan manufacturer hopes to bring supply chain to this state (Fox Business)
  20. Investors warn Covid-19 crisis is paving the way for inflation (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 17 key reads for Thursday…

  1. 13 Stock Ideas From Top Value Managers (Barron’s)
  2. Gilead’s Remdesivir Is a Rare Example of Foresight in This Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  3. What’s Good for Banks Isn’t Necessarily Good for Bankers (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Deals Aren’t Dead. Here Are 12 Stocks That Could Become Buyout Targets (Barron’s)
  5. Green Shoots for the Economy and 5 More Things to Know (Barron’s)
  6. As Stock Buybacks Disappear, Dividends Stand to Gain (Barron’s)
  7. As States Reopen, Home Purchase Applications Rise for the Fourth Week in a Row (Barron’s)
  8. Mnuchin Seeks to Assuage Investors After Powell’s Gloomy Outlook (Bloomberg)
  9. Trump Says He Disagrees With Fauci’s Concerns Over Reopening (Bloomberg)
  10. Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down state’s ‘stay-at-home’ order (CNBC)
  11. A London-based trading house bought 250,000 barrels of oil during the historic plunge below $0, and likely made a fortune. (Business Insider)
  12. U.S. weekly jobless benefits to stay elevated as coronavirus layoffs widen (Reuters)
  13. AbbVie’s Potential Is ‘Underappreciated,’ Says Morgan Stanley Analyst (Benzinga)
  14. The Swedish Model Trades More Disease for Less Economic Damage (Bloomberg)
  15. Oil Price Crash Could Hurt Trump in Texas, Help in Pennsylvania (Bloomberg)
  16. New York and New Jersey Start to Reopen Their Economies (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Fed TALF Revision Could Help Clear CLO Logjam (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Tesla Wins as County Blinks First in Standoff Over Plant (Barron’s)
  2. Fed spells out terms of TALF rescue facility, potentially paving way to unleash funds in weeks (MarketWatch)
  3. Hedge Funds, Go Home — Japan Is Closing the Door (Bloomberg)
  4. Steve Cohen, Jeff Bezos Achieve Scroll Fame at Robin Hood Telethon (Bloomberg)
  5. Hedge Fund That Never Loses Bets Big on South Africa Debt (Bloomberg)
  6. House Democrats unveil new $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill (CNBC)
  7. Gilead strikes deal to make remdesivir coronavirus treatment in 127 countries (CNBC)
  8. What Doesn’t Kill Fast Food Makes It Stronger (Wall Street Journal)
  9. The Emerging-Market Debt Trap (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Live Nation to issue $800 million of bonds that mature in 2027 (MarketWatch)
  11. Boyd Gaming is offering $500 million of senior notes that mature in 2025 (MarketWatch)
  12. Royal Caribbean pledges 28 ships as collateral for $3.3 bln bond offering (Reuters)
  13. CNBC’s Jim Cramer: Elon Musk may be a ‘zealot’ but he’s ‘dead right’ about his decision to break the rules (MarketWatch)
  14. China will step up macro-economic adjustments to offset pandemic impact – state TV (Reuters)
  15. Powell Says Washington Will Need to Spend More to Battle Downturn (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Saudis to make further oil supply cut to ‘encourage’ peers (Financial Times)
  2. Shanghai Disneyland Reopens With Strict Safety Procedures (New York Times)
  3. Investors Are Terrified of Chinese Stocks. How to Profit From Their Fear. Barron’s)
  4. Chinese investment in US drops to lowest level since 2009 (USA Today)
  5. Trump orders federal retirement money invested in Chinese equities to be pulled (Fox Business)
  6. China announces new tariff waivers for some U.S. imports (Reuters)
  7. The Fed Is Buying E.T.F.s Today (New York Times)
  8. Simon to reopen half of its malls within a week as states begin to reopen (New York Post)
  9. Palm Beach is new escape for New Yorkers looking to dodge coronavirus (New York Post)
  10. Boeing Plans to Resume Building the 737 MAX This Month (Barron’s)
  11. A Movie Studio Could Buy AMC, Even if Amazon Isn’t Interested (Barron’s)
  12. Why Investors Should Consider Companies That Are Repaying Their Credit-Line Debt (Barron’s)
  13. ‘Feels like we’re at the bottom’: Some executives see signs of recovery in April (CNBC)
  14. Secret recipes for United Airlines’ stroopwafel, Disney’s beignets, more to make in quarantine (USA Today)
  15. AbbVie Stock Is ‘Unsustainably Cheap’ After Allergan Acquisition (Yahoo! Finance)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. PulteGroup (PHM) says recent sales trends have been more encouraging (Street Insider)
  2. Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead? (AQR)
  3. Berkshire Hathaway Stock Has Rarely Been This Cheap (Barron’s)
  4. Marriott, Cisco, DraftKings, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week (Barron’s)
  5. 9 Value Stocks Investors Are Buying While Buffett Waits (Barron’s)
  6. Under virus pressure, Saudi Aramco may cut government payout (Reuters)
  7. AMC Entertainment’s stock soars after report Amazon has expressed buyout interest (Yahoo! Finance)
  8. One Sign That Outperforming Active Managers Will Continue to Outperform (Institutional Investor)
  9. Coronavirus crisis: does value investing still make sense? (Financial Times)
  10. America’s Smallest Stocks Are Staging a Comeback (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Shanghai Disneyland tickets sell out as park prepares to reopen (Fox Business)
  2. Southwest to raise $815 million through sale and leaseback of 20 planes (Reuters)
  3. The 22 Most Expensive Homes in the World for Sale (Robb Report)
  4. Order An Entire Meal From Texas Roadhouse And We’ll Guess How Old You Are (BuzzFeed) (It said I was 19!)
  5. R.I. teen creates non-profit org. to provide smart tech to patients isolated from loved ones (OANN)
  6. Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 (RollingStone)
  7. Why Ford Took The Bronco Off The Market – And Why It’s Bringing It Back (digg)
  8. Automobili Pininfarina Is Speeding Into a New Era of Hypercars (Maxim)
  9. This Weekend: NASCAR Makes Virtual Return to Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway (The Drive)
  10. Episode 998: Journey To The Center Of The Fed (NPR Planet Money)
  11. Bad Arguments and How to Avoid Them (Farnam Street)
  12. 7 Early Attempts at Self-Driving Cars (Mental Floss)
  13. MiB: Jim Bianco of Bianco Research (Bloomberg)
  14. Relocated UFC 249 could ‘bring sense of normalcy to people’ (Fox Business)
  15. Epidemics in World History, With Frank M. Snowden (CFR)
  16. Oil is the Comeback King (Futures Mag)
  17. The One Factor That Will Determine The Size Of India’s LNG Boom (OilPrice)
  18. Sam Zell: Nice Distressed Real Estate Bargains Are Ahead (Chief Investment Officer)
  19. Lawmakers urge punishment for banks that won’t back drillers (Pensions & Investments)
  20. Ferrari sales and other Luxury Cars beat Estimates as Global Car sales plummet (Luxuo)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Guy Fieri raised $20 million for restaurant workers amid pandemic (New York Post)
  2. Battered Builder Stocks Could Be Hot Properties Again (Barron’s)
  3. A Stock to Bet on a Recovery in Gambling (Barron’s)
  4. 9 Value Stocks Investors Are Buying While Buffett Waits (Barron’s)
  5. Walmart and other superstores continue coronavirus-fueled hiring spree (New York Post)
  6. Mad Dash for Small-Business Loans Slows Down to Glacial Pace (Bloomberg)
  7. When United Pawned Old Jets, Bond Traders Sent a Stark Warning (Bloomberg)
  8. Fresh Coronavirus Wave Won’t Require Shutdown, White House Says (Bloomberg)
  9. ‘Survival Mode’: How Billionaire Bosses Tackle the Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  10. Bain Capital makes $1bn bet on Japan’s nursing homes (Financial Times)
  11. ‘We’ve seen the lows in March’ for stocks, says man who called Dow 20,000 in 2015, ‘and we will never see those lows again’ (MarketWatch)
  12. New study claims vitamin D deficiency may impact coronavirus mortality rates (MarketWatch)
  13. Royal Caribbean’s stock rallies after COVID-19-related business and liquidity update (MarketWatch)
  14. Elon Musk Says He’ll Be Working on the Tesla Assembly Line Today (Futurism)
  15. Leading Cause of Death in U.S.? Hint: It Isn’t Covid-19 (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Rolls-Royce Cullinan: A Bid for Rich Millennial Buyers (Wall Street Journal)
  17. If Charlie Munger Didn’t Quit When He Was Divorced, Broke, and Burying His 9 Year Old Son, You Have No Excuse (joshuakennon)
  18. Ariel Investments Chairman John Rogers: We’re buying stocks, ‘leaning in looking for opportunities’ (Yahoo! Finance)
  19. An Apology for Small-Cap Value (Verdad)
  20. Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Transcript 2020 (Rev)

Be in the know. 17 key reads for Friday…

  1. Global Equities Hold Gains as Jobs Figures Land (Barron’s)
  2. Why China’s Tech Stocks Are Rallying (Barron’s)
  3. Insurance Stocks Are Cheap. Lincoln Could Double, J.P. Morgan Says. (Barron’s)
  4. Norwegian Cruise Line CEO: ‘We expect to sail sometime in 2020’ (CNBC)
  5. Hertz Seeks Lender Leniency or Faces Bankruptcy Within Weeks (Bloomberg)
  6. Turning Oil Wells Back on Is Trickier Than Shutting Them Off (Bloomberg)
  7. ‘Who am I to be bold?’: Warren Buffett’s lack of stock purchases worries billionaire investor Leon Cooperman (Business Insider)
  8. The Defense Haven Isn’t Overcrowded Yet (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) says booked position for 2021 within historical ranges (Street Insider)
  10. What Americans Will Do With Their 11-Year-Old Cars (24/7 Wall Street)
  11. Top U.S., China trade officials agree to strengthen cooperation (Reuters)
  12. A Disney resort will partially reopen in America surprisingly soon (Fox Business)
  13. Michigan governor says auto plants can reopen Monday (MarketWatch)
  14. Chess Is the New King of the Pandemic (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Liberty Global, Telefonica to Combine U.K. Units, Creating $39 Billion Giant (Wall Street Journal)
  16. China’s Auto Market Rumbles Back to Growth (Wall Street Journal)
  17. ViacomCBS Shares Rise on Earnings Beat, Despite Slumping Revenue (Wall Street Journal)