Be in the know. 7 key reads for Monday…

  1. U.S. Consumer Tech Sales Projected to Increase 4% in 2020. These Trends Will Drive the Growth. (Barron’s)
  2. ‘Bad’ Manufacturing Data Contained Good News for Industrial Stocks. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  3. UK economy boosted by ‘greater Brexit clarity’ after conservative win (Fox Business)
  4. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Amazon, Dine Brands, Walgreens And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  5. Top Energy Stocks for January 2020 (Investopedia)
  6. Don’t laugh: Here’s why the ‘great rotation’ from bonds to stocks could finally happen in 2020 (MarketWatch)
  7. Here’s how the Dow and S&P 500 perform in years after they ring up gains of 20% (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2020 (New York Times)
  2. Inside the world of one of YouTube’s most popular food vloggers (Vox)
  3. ‘Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  4. Typical January Trading: Volatile Last 20 Years (Almanac Trader)
  5. The MMT backlash takes a new form (FT Alphaville)
  6. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Bill Ackman, Marshall Wace, Greenlight Capital, Becton Dickinson and Co (BDX), On Track Innovations Ltd (OTIVF), and More (Insider Monkey)
  7. This Icelandic Retreat Is Reminiscent of a Bond Villain’s Lair (Fortune)
  8. 22 of the Most Expensive Homes in the World for Sale (Robb Report)
  9. 18 Travel Experiences To Add To Your Bucket List In 2020 (BuzzFeed)
  10. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  11. Here’s What’s Coming To Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO and Disney+ in January (Maxim)
  12. Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil (NPR Planet Money)
  13. The Great British Bicycle Bubble (NPR Planet Money)
  14. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Runs a $143 Billion Company From an iPhone. Here’s Why That Makes Perfect Sense (Inc.)
  15. Why So Many Emerging Markets Are Blowing Up Right Now (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  16. Scientists Spot Addiction-Associated Circuit in Rats (Scientific American)
  17. Issues 2020: A Fracking Ban Would Trigger Global Recession (Manhattan Institute)
  18. Top 10 Tips to Meet Your New Year’s Resolution. (LiveLux)
  19. 20 Questions We Have for the 2020s (Popular Mechanics)
  20. 713: The Tipping Point Between Failure and Success (Harvard Business Review)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Forget About Dogs Of The Dow, Upgrade To Dobermans (Forbes)
  2. Hedge Fund Tips – Episode 10 – VideoCast. Stock Market Commentary. (ZeroHedge)
  3. How Trump Planned the Drone Strike With a Tight Circle of Aides (Bloomberg)
  4. Here’s what typically happens to the financial markets after major Middle East crisis events (CNBC)
  5. Billionaires shop at Costco too—see Mark Zuckerberg checking out TVs (CNBC)
  6. Strait of Hormuz, the world’s biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as Iran tensions flare (MarketWatch)
  7. Lennar Stock Looks Like a Bargain. Here’s Why. (MarketWatch)
  8. Large Macy’s Option Trader Betting On A Rebound Year (Benzinga)
  9. How Uncut Gems Won Over the Diamond District (Vanity Fair)
  10. Amazon Is a Free-Cash Rocket Ship.Time to Jump on Board. (Barron’s)
  11. There Are Slim Pickings in the Restaurant Sector. Here’s One Stock Worth Nibbling On. (Barron’s)
  12. Occidental Petroleum, Walt Disney, Nissan Motor: Stocks That Defined the Week (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Ten people set to shape Wall Street in 2020 (Financial Times)
  14. Fed minutes show confidence in 2020 interest rate path (Financial Times)
  15. Stocks Face New Risks, But Here’s Why It’s Not Time To Flee (Investor’s Business Daily)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Friday…

  1. Top 10 Tasks for Boeing’s New CEO (Wall Street Journal)
  2. China’s cabinet plans further action to boost manufacturers: state media (Reuters)
  3. The Power of Social Media in Predicting Stock Returns (Institutional Investor)
  4. Ten Strategists on What U.S.-Iran Escalation Means for Markets (Bloomberg)
  5. Why Battered Oilfield Services Stocks Could Be Big 2020 Winners (24/7 Wall Street)
  6. Why You Should Keep An Eye On These 5 Leading Health Care Stocks (Investor’s Business Daily)
  7. Macau casinos’ luck may change. Two stocks that could win (Barron’s)
  8. The U.S. killed an Iranian General—and the Riskiest Oil Stocks Are Flying (Barron’s)
  9. Boris Johnson’s chief adviser posted a bizarre advert calling for ‘super-talented weirdos’ to help run the UK government (Business Insider)
  10. U.S. shale producers to tap brakes in 2020 after years of rapid growth (Reuters)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…

  1. China Moves to Steady Its Slowing Economic Growth (New York Times)
  2. The Earth, Wind & Fire “Shining Star” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results) (ZeroHedge)
  3. These 6 charts compare the US and China economies (CNBC)
  4. Irrational exuberance? Why last year’s stellar returns may have been a reversal of ‘excessive pessimism’ (MarketWatch)
  5. Goldman Sachs Was the Worst Dow Stock of 2018. It Was One of the Best in 2019. (Barron’s)
  6. FedEx Stock Ended 2019 With a Loss. One Director Bought Up Shares in December. (Barron’s)
  7. The highest-paid CEOs of 2019 (USA Today)
  8. The Dollar’s Losses May Just Be Getting Started (Bloomberg)
  9. Almost Everything Wall Street Expects in 2020 (Bloomberg)
  10. OPEC Output Falls as Gulf Nations Step Up Delivery of Oil Cuts (Bloomberg)
  11. This is what the Warren Buffett empire looks like, in one giant chart (MarketWatch)
  12. Treasury’s Mnuchin to head U.S. delegation to Davos conclave (Reuters)
  13. 7 Excellent Value Stocks to Buy for 2020 (Yahoo! Finance)
  14. Twilio CEO Lawson Tinkers Until Solving Customers’ Problems (Investor’s Business Daily)
  15. MAX Crashes Strengthen Resolve of Boeing to Automate Flight (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for New Year’s Day…

  1. Three Neglected Parts of the Stock Market That Could Win in 2020 (Barron’s)
  2. How investors see 2020 shaping up in US financial markets (Financial Times)
  3. Stock Market Caps Bullish Year With Modest Gains; Which Sectors Will Lead In 2020? (Investor’s Business Daily)
  4. Steve Cohen one of few bright spots in bad year for hedge funds (New York Post)
  5. Chill, It Might Not Be That Bad: The Optimist’s Guide to 2020 (Bloomberg)
  6. India Stocks Rise as Investors Bank on Economic Recovery in 2020 (Bloomberg)
  7. Oil Caps Strongest Year Since 2016 on OPEC Cuts, Trade Truce (Bloomberg)
  8. UK is set to exit the EU next month: Here are some important Brexit-related dates of 2020 (CNBC)
  9. Warren Buffett turned down a chance to buy Tiffany’s (Business Insider)
  10. 11 Top Merrill Lynch Stock Picks for 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
  11. Here are the best and worst Dow and S&P 500 stocks of 2019 (MarketWatch)
  12. These are the 20 best-performing stocks of the past decade, and some of them will surprise you (MarketWatch)
  13. These 10 S&P 500 stocks were lousy in 2019, but they could return 40% or more in 2020 (MarketWatch)
  14. Dow, Exxon Mobil and IBM top the ‘Dogs of the Dow’ list as 2019 ends (MarketWatch)
  15. Oil analysts bet on modest price gains in 2020 as supply shrinks: Reuters poll (Yahoo! Finance)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for New Year’s Eve…

  1. William Blair Sees Biotech M&A Continuing in 2020; Issues Top 10 Predictions (Street Insider)
  2. Hedge Fund Tips – Episode 9 – VideoCast. Stock Market Commentary. (ZeroHedge)
  3. Is Nio a Serious Threat to Tesla in China? (24/7 Wall Street)
  4. US Home Price Gains Accelerate Again (But Not In San Francisco) (ZeroHedge)
  5. Dennis Gartman Says Goodbye With One Last Stock Market Warning (Barron’s)
  6. Warren Buffett on why companies cannot be moral arbiters (Financial Times)
  7. Soy Heads for Best Month Since 2016 on China Demand Optimism (Bloomberg)
  8. Apple Was the Dow’s Best Stock in 2019. Here’s What History Says Will Happen Next Year. (Barron’s)
  9. The Dogs of the Dow was a winning strategy for the decade (Barron’s)
  10. The Stock Market Is Ending the Year With a Strong December. Here’s What History Says Happens Next. (Barron’s)

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Monday…

  1. Analysts: These Beat-Up Stocks Will Gush Big Gains In 2020 (Investor’s Business Daily)
  2. China boosts lending to small businesses despite risk (Financial Times)
  3. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Applied Materials, Boeing, Travelers And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  4. US Goods Trade Deficit Shrinks To 27 Month Low (ZeroHedge)
  5. The 10 Stocks With the Biggest Comebacks of 2019 (Barron’s)
  6. IBM Bet Everything on an Acquisition in 2019. Now They Need To Grow Again. (Barron’s)
  7. Is QE4 Underway? One Veteran Banking Analyst Says ‘Yes’ (Street Insider)
  8. The Best—and Worst—Company Stocks in the Dow This Year (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Sunday…

  1. For Energy, Poor People Deserve To Be Rich (Forbes)
  2. These biomedical breakthroughs of the decade saved lives and reduced suffering (CNBC)
  3. Prescription for Disaster ()
  4. The Work Week, Episode 4: Is The Unemployment Rate Broken? (NPR Planet Money)
  5. Why Economists Still Don’t Understand Money (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  6. Musk’s Boring Co. Vegas Tunnel ‘Hopefully’ Operational in 2020 (Bloomberg)
  7. Eddie Murphy’s Return to ‘Saturday Night Live’ Made For the Best Episode in Years (Maxim)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Biotech Is Market Front-Runner Heading Into Election Year (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Tom Steyer, Daniel Och, Netflix Inc (NFLX), Antares Pharma Inc (ATRS), and More ()
  3. Oil Posts Longest Run of Weekly Gains Since April on Crude Draw (Bloomberg)
  4. The best investment of the decade turned $1 into $90,000 ()
  5. Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2020 (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Stock Market Forecast 2020: Clear Skies From Fed, China Trade, But Election Clouds Loom (Investor’s Business Daily)
  7. The 25 Most Popular Robb Report Stories of 2019 (Robb Report)
  8. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  9. 4 Dirty Little Secrets You Need To Know About Successful People (Forbes)
  10. US Oil Rig Count Falls In Last Week Of 2019 (Yahoo! Finance)