- China says trade deal good for all, media discourages ‘nitpicking’ (Reuters)
- “Are you tired of winning yet?” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)… (ZeroHedge)
- U.S. Energy Industry Looks for Clarity in China Trade Deal (New York Times)
- Morgan Stanley Downgrades Tesla (TSLA) to Underweight, Raises PT (Street Insider)
- Why Raymond James Top MLPs to Buy Also May Be 2020 Best Income Ideas (24/7 Wall Street)
- Morgan Stanley 4Q earnings smash Wall Street estimates as revenue jumps across the board (Business Insider)
- Intuitive Surgical CEO Cracks The Da Vinci Code Of Success For You (Investor’s Business Daily)
- 2020 Could Be the Year for Small-Caps. Buy Only the Best. (Barron’s)
- Things May Be Looking Up for Hedge Funds (Institutional Investor)
- Nobody Makes Money Like Apollo’s Ruthless Founder Leon Black (Bloomberg)
Category: What I’m Reading Today
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Wednesday…
- Bridgewater’s Greg Jensen sees gold rallying as central banks ease (Financial Times)
- Burger King offers Prince Harry a job (New York Post)
- US natgas production to slip for first time since 2016 (Financial Times)
- FOX Business EXCLUSIVE: Breakdown of China’s $200B buys from America under historic phase one trade deal (Fox Business)
- This Is What Sets Top-Performing Hedge Fund Managers Apart (Institutional Investor)
- It May Be Time to Shop for Shares of U.K. Property Firms (Barron’s)
- Sen. Rob Portman: Trump’s Trade Deal Forces China to Start Playing by the Rules (Barron’s)
- Are Amazon and FedEx Really Ready to Be Friends Again? (24/7 Wall Street)
- The Fed (Mostly) Didn’t Cause the Latest Stock Market Melt-Up (Wall Street Journal)
- Nio’s stock soars on heavy volume after report of funding secured (MarketWatch)
Be in the know. 12 key reads for Tuesday…
- Oil Companies Are Finally Pumping Out Cash. That’s Good News for Their Stocks. (Barron’s)
- Buy Occidental Petroleum Stock, Morgan Stanley Says. Its Dividend Is ‘Best-In-Class.’ (Barron’s)
- JPMorgan posts record profit in strong start to US earnings season (Financial Times)
- Citigroup earnings beat expectations on 49% fixed-income trading surge (CNBC)
- For Howard Marks, Investing Is Like a Game (Institutional Investor)
- Hedge fund puts $550m into technology stock option financing (Financial Times)
- EXCLUSIVE: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon praises ‘phase one’ US-China trade deal (Fox Business)
- 2 GM engineers arrested after 100-mph Kentucky joyride in new Corvettes (USA Today)
- Big Commitments for China Energy/Ag Buys in Phase 1 Trade Deal (Reuters)
- Worry over ‘Japanification’ of the economy is overblown (Barron’s)
- Warren Buffett Should Buy FedEx. It’s Cheap and Elephant-Sized. (Barron’s)
- Xi Strikes Optimistic Tone After Riding Out Trade War With Trump (Bloomberg)
Be in the know. 12 key reads for Monday…
- Stocks Continue to Rise. How Much Is Due to the ‘January Effect?’ (Barron’s)
- Trump administration nears decision on LNG shipping by train (Financial Times)
- Goldman Sachs says Europe’s stocks have a huge ‘cushion’ not seen since the financial crisis (Business Insider)
- Commodities may not stay cheap forever (Financial Times)
- History will repeat itself when it comes to stocks in 2020, Goldman Sachs says (MarketWatch)
- Biotech Stocks Could Soar In 2020 On CRISPR Gene Editing And Precision Medicine (Investor’s Business Daily)
- Time to Buy Long-Dated TIPS, Says Bank of America (MarketWatch)
- Stock Picker Who Pummeled The Market By 76% Reveals His 2020 Bets (Investor’s Business Daily)
- China’s yuan rallies, yen slides ahead of U.S. trade deal (Street Insider)
- Photos of Yelp’s top 100 places to eat in 2020 (USA Today)
- U.S.-China phase one trade deal: 7 things you need to know (FoxBusiness)
- Barron’s Picks And Pans: Apple, Bank of America, Lockheed Martin And More (Yahoo! Finance)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…
- January Expiration Week: Mixed Bag Last 21 Years (Almanac Trader)
- The Man Who’s Spending $1 Billion to Own Every Pop Song (Medium)
- U.S., China agree to have semi-annual talks aimed a reforms, resolving disputes: WSJ (Reuters)
- Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Chase Coleman, Ray Dalio, Daniel Loeb, Ken Griffin, Salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM), Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS), and More (Insider Monkey)
- Where’s Your Flying Car? Hyundai and Uber Say They’re Working on It (New York Times)
- The 8 Most Beautiful Castle Gardens in Europe (Architectural Digest)
- Bloomberg Spent $200 Million and Isn’t on Track to Score a Single Delegate (The Daily Beast)
- Nashville Goaltender Pekka Rinne Scores NHL’s First Goalie Goal In Six Years (digg)
- avatar-inspired mercedes-benz VISION AVTR concept car lands at CES 2020 (designboom)
- Matthew Benkendorf on Managing Equities (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
- The 1970 Plymouth Superbird Won 18 NASCAR Races. Now You Can Buy a Street-Legal Version of Your Own. (Robb Report)
- ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
- This Custom 1970 Dodge Challenger Has 2,500 Horsepower Under the Hood (Maxim)
- Will Northrop Grumman Stock Be a Top Performer Again in 2020? (24/7 Wall St.)
- Trump called Iran’s bluff. And he won. (Washington Post)
- The St. Louis Blues Are Finding New Ways To Beat The Odds (FiveThirtyEight)
- The new tools of monetary policy (Ben Bernanke)
- Issues 2020: A Fracking Ban Would Trigger Global Recession (Manhattan Institute)
- What It’s Like to Be an Investor in Iran’s Market Now (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
- How I Built This with Guy Raz Dell Computers: Michael Dell (Apple)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…
- Biotech Looks for Fireworks in First Quarter to Regain Momentum (Bloomberg)
- Bet on the Big Banks — and Bank of America (Barron’s)
- Davos? Meet Me at Butternut Instead. (Barron’s)
- A New Hot Spot for Oil Could Boost These 4 Companies (Barron’s)
- Davos? Meet Me at Butternut Instead. (Barron’s)
- Biogen Awaits a Decision on a Key Patent. At Risk Is Its Biggest Drug (Barron’s)
- Trump Allies Explore Buyout of Conservative Channel Seeking to Compete With Fox News (Wall Street Journal)
- New Sanctions Power Could Squeeze Remaining Iranian Trade Channels (Wall Street Journal)
- The Internet of Things Is Changing the World (Wall Street Journal)
- Trump Says Iran Had Planned to Attack Four U.S. Embassies (Bloomberg)
- Hummer is back as GM revives name for electric pickup (USA Today)
- S&P 5,000? Why one fund manager says that milestone may be reached sooner than you would expect (MarketWatch)
- These were the most talked-about products at CES (CNN Business)
- Mark Zuckerberg Says He Hunts Wild Boar With a Bow and Arrow (Futurism)
- Penn Jillette on Magic, Losing 100+ Pounds, and Weaponizing Kindness (#405) (Podcast)
- The Four Traits of Successful Asset Managers (Institutional Investor)
- Gradual Improvements Redux (theirrelevantinvestor)
- Client for Life (The Reformed Broker)
- Is Vulnerability a Choice? (Farnam Street)
- Eight lessons from market history (Evidence Investor)
Be in the know. 8 key reads for Friday…
- The Stock Market Was Up the First 5 Days of 2020. Here’s What History Says Will Happen Next. (Barron’s)
- After A Sizzling End To 2019, Biotech Stocks Could Soar In 2020 (Investor’s Business Daily)
- Stocks More Than Doubled Over the Last Decade. Many Investors Missed Out. (Institutional Investor)
- Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads (New York Times)
- Warren Buffett calls this ‘indispensable’ life advice: ‘You can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow’ (CNBC)
- The U6 unemployment rate fell to 6.7% to mark the lowest level on record (MarketWatch)
- Fed’s Bullard, Kashkari Favor Holding Interest Rates Steady (Wall Street Journal)
- Top 2019 Stock Picker Spotted Under-the-Radar Tech (Bloomberg)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…
- Red-Hot Biotech Stocks Brace For Key Meeting — Here’s What To Expect (Investor’s Business Daily)
- Legal sports betting: California among states set for 2020 push (Fox Business)
- The CAKE “Short Skirt, Long Jacket” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results) (ZeroHedge)
- Taco Bell Offering $100,000 Salary Amid Mounting Worker Shortage (Bloomberg)
- Defense Stocks Have Climbed on Mideast Tension. The Run Isn’t Over. (Barron’s)
- City bosses reveal their bargains and bubbles for 2020 (Financial News)
- Divergent paths: Oil, natural gas going different directions (for now) (Reuters)
- Pepperidge Farm releasing its first gluten-free products – Farmhouse Thin & Crispy cookies (USA Today)
- XPO Logistics CEO Brad Jacobs Centers His Strategy Around Tech (Investor’s Business Daily)
- To Save Avon, New Owner Comes Calling on Social Media (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 5 key reads for Wednesday…
- Nothing scares Jeffrey Gundlach more than Bernie Sanders (MarketWatch)
- Starbucks, Lowe’s and 6 Other Consumer Stocks That Could Shine in 2020 (Barron’s)
- 3 Oil Stocks to Buy and 1 to Avoid in 2020, According to an Analyst (Barron’s)
- Iran’s Forewarned Strikes Give Trump a Path to Avert All-Out War (Bloomberg)
- Here’s What Could Take the Dow Up to 32,000 in 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…
- For India’s Battered Small Caps, Patience Is Virtue, ICICI Says (Bloomberg)
- US debt investors seek protection against inflation (Financial Times)
- Expert: These Will Be The Biggest Hedge Funds Trends Of 2020 (Benzinga)
- How 7-Eleven Struck Back Against an Owner Who Took a Day Off (New York Times)
- New cars hit the LA Auto Show (USA Today)
- Byron Wien makes some bold 2020 calls in his widely followed surprises list including 2 rate cuts (CNBC)
- Bet on these big names to use their scale to squeeze out smaller rivals, says Jefferies (MarketWatch)
- US trade deficit plunges to more than 3-year low (Fox Business)
- RBC Capital Markets Out With First Top Picks Equity List for 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
- Oil tycoon Harold Hamm predicts 19% jump in U.S. oil prices within six months, ‘regardless of what happens’ in the Mideast (MarketWatch)