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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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
U.S. Consumer Tech Sales Projected to Increase 4% in 2020. These Trends Will Drive the Growth. (Barron’s )
‘Bad’ Manufacturing Data Contained Good News for Industrial Stocks. Here’s Why. (Barron’s )
UK economy boosted by ‘greater Brexit clarity’ after conservative win (Fox Business )
Barron’s Picks And Pans: Amazon, Dine Brands, Walgreens And More (Yahoo! Finance )
Top Energy Stocks for January 2020 (Investopedia )
Don’t laugh: Here’s why the ‘great rotation’ from bonds to stocks could finally happen in 2020 (MarketWatch )
Here’s how the Dow and S&P 500 perform in years after they ring up gains of 20% (MarketWatch )
The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2020 (New York Times )
Inside the world of one of YouTube’s most popular food vloggers (Vox )
‘Points Guy’ Brian Kelly on Maximizing Travel Rewards (Podcast) (Bloomberg )
Typical January Trading: Volatile Last 20 Years (Almanac Trader )
The MMT backlash takes a new form (FT Alphaville )
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 )
This Icelandic Retreat Is Reminiscent of a Bond Villain’s Lair (Fortune )
22 of the Most Expensive Homes in the World for Sale (Robb Report )
18 Travel Experiences To Add To Your Bucket List In 2020 (BuzzFeed )
ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives )
Here’s What’s Coming To Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO and Disney+ in January (Maxim )
Episode 216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil (NPR Planet Money )
The Great British Bicycle Bubble (NPR Planet Money )
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Runs a $143 Billion Company From an iPhone. Here’s Why That Makes Perfect Sense (Inc. )
Why So Many Emerging Markets Are Blowing Up Right Now (Podcast) (Bloomberg )
Scientists Spot Addiction-Associated Circuit in Rats (Scientific American )
Issues 2020: A Fracking Ban Would Trigger Global Recession (Manhattan Institute )
Top 10 Tips to Meet Your New Year’s Resolution. (LiveLux )
20 Questions We Have for the 2020s (Popular Mechanics )
713: The Tipping Point Between Failure and Success (Harvard Business Review )