Be in the know. 13 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Why This Legendary Value Manager Likes Alphabet and Citigroup Stock (barrons)
  2. Fed Rate Cuts Are Coming. Get Ready for the Stock Market’s Next Phase. (barrons)
  3. Cruise Stocks Are Steaming Ahead. It Isn’t Too Late to Jump Aboard. (barrons)
  4. Chewy Stock Gains After Earnings. Autoship Sales Are Strong. (barrons)
  5. Hedge funds sell out of U.S. cyclical stocks at fastest rate this year (marketwatch)
  6. Activist Investor Irenic Builds Stake in Forward Air (wsj)
  7. Consumer confidence rebounds for first time in 3 months (finance.yahoo)
  8. Yen May Ironically Get Help From The Fed Of All Places (zerohedge)
  9. A ‘robust’ earnings outlook is driving further optimism for stocks in 2024 (finance.yahoo)
  10. IMF raises China growth forecast but warns on industrial policy (ft)
  11. In China’s Tech Sphere, Everything Eventually Descends Into a Price War (bloomberg)
  12. ECB member says rates to ease ‘gradually,’ as market awaits June cut (cnbc)
  13. How China Pulled So Far Ahead on Industrial Policy (nytimes)

Be in the know. 22 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (wsj)
  2. China, Hong Kong stock markets are back in favour with global investors, HKEX CEO Bonnie Chan says (scmp)
  3. CPC leadership reviews measures to further energize central region, provisions to defuse financial risks (cn)
  4. China’s Xi Pledges to Make Youth Employment a Top Priority (bloomberg)
  5. U.S. consumer confidence rebounds in May after three months of decline (marketwatch)
  6. Home prices reach new high in March, Case-Shiller says, fueled by scarcity (marketwatch)
  7. This Wall Street Shake-Up Will Put Money in Your Hands Faster (barrons)
  8. UBS leapfrogs UBS with new S&P 500 price target (marketwatch)
  9. Apple iPhone Shipments In China Rebound 52%, Market Share Loss To Huawei May Be Stabilizing (zerohedge)
  10. 7 Biases That Can Cloud Investors’ Judgment About Finances (barrons)
  11. New Rules for Buying a Home Are Coming. A Guide to Getting the Best Deal. (barrons)
  12. China Raises $48 Billion for Semiconductor Fund to Bolster Chip-Making Capabilities (wsj)
  13. Hate Chatbots? You Aren’t the Only One (wsj)
  14. How to Have a Great Vacation: What Science Tells Us (wsj)
  15. Bullish Investors Are Piling Into Stock and Bond Funds (wsj)
  16. Bankruptcies Have Left More Stores Vacant, but the Space Doesn’t Sit Empty for Long (wsj)
  17. AI Is Driving ‘the Next Industrial Revolution.’ Wall Street Is Cashing In. (wsj)
  18. San Francisco’s Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars (nytimes)
  19. The small town life beckons for many as Americans continue to flee big cities (usatoday)
  20. Hedge Funds Split Over Stocks’ Move From Here (zerohedge)
  21. Guangzhou Follows Shanghai Real Estate Policy (chinalastnight)
  22. Western businesses backtrack on their Russia exit plans (ft)

Be in the know. 27 key reads for Memorial Day…

  1. What’s Andy Jassy’s Best Business Advantage? A Positive Attitude (inc)
  2. Alibaba News Roundup: Alibaba Raises $4.5B Via Convertible Bonds; Alibaba Cloud Partners with Olympic Broadcasting Services (alizila)
  3. Alibaba Cloud Expands Data Center Network and Global Gen AI Offerings (alizila)
  4. Explore our latest Top 100 Courses in the World ranking (golf)
  5. How the world’s best memorizers remember things (fastcompany)
  6. The Curse is Broken, Charles Leclerc Wins the Monaco Grand Prix (roadandtrack)
  7. I analyzed 1,353 shots from Scottie Scheffler’s historic streak—these are the secrets to his success (golfdigest)
  8. The Best Cars That Still Offer a Manual Transmission in 2024, Ranked (roadandtrack)
  9. Google Set to Make Its Largest Acquisition Ever, Threatening Microsoft (gizmodo)
  10. For AI to Deliver on Its Promises, People Need to Trust It (cnet)
  11. Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (theverge)
  12. 5 best Netflix comedy movies you should watch on Memorial Day (digitaltrends)
  13. Darshan Shah’s KPIs for Healthy Aging (ypo)
  14. With AI, anyone can be a coder now (ted)
  15. An activist investor on challenging the status quo (ted)
  16. How Red Lobster got cooked and other indicators (npr)
  17. How Horsepower Works (howstuffworks)
  18. Spy Slang: 24 Top Secret Terms You Should Know (mentalfloss)
  19. The Origins of All 32 NHL Team Names (mentalfloss)
  20. Nuclear Energy’s Bottom Line (theatlantic)
  21. The Man Who Moves Markets (theatlantic)
  22. Don’t Believe the AI Hype (project-syndicate)
  23. Why the US Can’t Win the Trade War With China (project-syndicate)
  24. Surfing the American Dream (slate)
  25. Something Just Flipped in the Credit Market for the First Time Since 2020 (bloomberg)
  26. 4 Predictions for What Happens If TikTok Gets Banned in the U.S., According to a Harvard Business School Professor (inc)
  27. Here are the companies OpenAI has made deals with to train ChatGPT (fastcompany)

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Sunday…

  1. The Hidden Driver of Soaring Home Insurance Costs (wsj)
  2. US equity funds see massive weekly inflows on rate cut expectations (reuters)
  3. Weekly Leading Economic Index (advisorperspectives)
  4. Banks don’t want to inspect your home office, so they’re forcing hundreds of employees to come in five days a week (fortune)
  5. Could drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy help people live longer? Some experts see them as potential longevity pills (fortune)
  6. Can the rich world escape its baby crisis? (economist)
  7. AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China (techcrunch)
  8. ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.’ (psyche)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Saturday…

  1. The ECB May Beat the Fed to Cutting Rates. Here Are the Risks. (barrons)
  2. Cancer Biotech Stocks Are on the Move Ahead of a Big Event. What to Know. (barrons)
  3. Warner Bros. Discovery Exec Bought Up the ‘Undervalued’ Stock (barrons)
  4. In early May, Stellantis unveiled the new sales program for dealers, which provides cash awards for hitting aggressive monthly targets. (wsj)
  5. Bearish Trades Crater Fast in Wall Street’s High-Momentum Rally (bloomberg)
  6. Nvidia ‘seems bubbly’ because it won’t be able to maintain its dominant market share, investing legend Rob Arnott says (businessinsider)
  7. ‘‘I told the guy that if he reads Security Analysis [by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd] and The Intelligent Investor [by Benjamin Graham] and then reads all of Warren Buffett’s annual reports, and if he really understands what they were saying, he will know everything there is to know about investing.’’ (Bill Miller)
  8. Benetti Superyachts Are Favored by Everyone From Jay-Z To James Bond (maxim)
  9. How The Ferrari 250 GTO Became The World’s Most Valuable Production Car (maxim)
  10. This N.Y.C. Steakhouse Is America’s Best, According To Meaty New Rankings (maxim)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Friday…

  1. Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu’s 2024 Letter to Shareholders (alizila)
  2. Alibaba’s convertible bond sale to fund buy-backs ‘oversubscribed’ (scmp)
  3. Alibaba raises $5bn for share buybacks (ft)
  4. JPMorgan is ‘positive’ on China stocks and ‘constructive’ on its real estate (cnbc)
  5. BofA’s Hartnett Says Stock Rally Is Moving Closer to Sell Signal (bloomberg)
  6. “Looking beyond to the next 4-6 quarters, we believe a decline in demand for Nvidia compute is inevitable, as model providers shift toward focusing on driving computational efficiency and their largest customers…all develop their own silicon,” Luria wrote in a research note. (barrons)
  7. Hello Nvidia, Goodbye Intel? What the AI Stock’s Split Could Mean for the Dow. (barrons)
  8. Do companies’ stocks tend to outperform after they are removed from the Dow Jones index? (ai)
  9. Cathie Wood sees a Great Depression-like search for safety in the stock market (marketwatch)
  10. Home builders are slashing prices to lure home buyers, but it may not be enough (marketwatch)
  11. Treasury Bills Are the Best Place to Park Your Cash. Just Ask Warren Buffett. (barrons)
  12. SEC Widens Accessibility of Crypto Investing With Approval of ETFs for Ether (wsj)
  13. How Singapore Got Rich, and Can It Last (bloomberg)
  14. Carry Trade Is All the Rage Across Global Bond and FX Markets (bloomberg)
  15. Rate Cuts Will Trigger Flood of Bond Buying, PGIM Says (bloomberg)
  16. Goldman Axes Bet on July Fed Rate Cut (bloomberg)
  17. A Hedge-Fund Volatility Trade Risks Getting Crushed by the Crowd (bloomberg)
  18. Reuben Brothers Bet on $2 Billion Puerto Rico Development (bloomberg)
  19. Lululemon Shares at Bottom of S&P 500 as Sales Concerns Grow (bloomberg)
  20. A global labor shortage will send tech stocks soaring, with the sector poised to grow to 50% of the total stock market, Fundstrat says (businessinsider)
  21. Sam Altman’s time as the golden child of tech might be coming to an end (businessinsider)
  22. China’s Second Special Ultra-Long Bond Sale Sees Solid Demand (bloomberg)
  23. This is how stock splits are performing 12 months after announcement (streetinsider)
  24. China’s mutual funds top record with US$4.1 trillion invested (scmp)
  25. Chinese sovereign bond trading suspended after frantic retail buying (ft)

Be in the know. 17 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Alibaba has spoken with investment banks about selling bonds that can be converted into US-listed stock, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. The aim is to fund share repurchases and growth, the people said. (yahoo)
  2. Alibaba bets on AI to fuel cloud growth as it expands globally to catch up with U.S. tech giants (cnbc)
  3. Washington’s Pivot on Bank Rules Could Free Up Tens of Billions (wsj)
  4. Retail-investor stock appetite has not yet fully recovered (marketwatch)
  5. One of the biggest U.S. lenders is offering 0%-down-payment mortgages for first-time home buyers. Here’s the catch. (marketwatch)
  6. Jobless claims fall again to 215,000. Strong labor market fuels U.S. economy. (marketwatch)
  7. Xi urges hard work to improve people’s well-being (cn)
  8. Ford (F) new Buy at Bernstein amid ‘clear path to significant operating leverage’ (streetinsider)
  9. Fed Minutes Show Officials Were Wary About Inflation at May Meeting (nytimes)
  10. The race for an AI-powered personal assistant (ft)
  11. Nvidia Is Booming. Here’s What Could Slow It Down. (wsj)
  12. Hims & Hers Is Selling Copycat Weight-Loss Drugs. Here’s How. (barrons)
  13. Carmakers Dangle Big Discounts as Inventory Swells (bloomberg)
  14. JPMorgan says China can’t be ignored: ‘You have to do business there’ (cnbc)
  15. Pfizer aims to save $1.5 billion by 2027 in first wave of new cost cuts (cnbc)
  16. Elon Musk predicts smarter-than-humans AI in 2 years. The CEO of China’s Baidu says it’s 10 years away (cnbc)
  17. This Is What Hedge And Mutual Funds Did In Q1: Goldman’s HF and MF Monitors (zerohedge)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. China’s Improving Market Breadth Is Good News for Stock Bulls (bloomberg)
  2. China’s online retail sales up 11.5 pct in January-April period (cn)
  3. China’s 618 shopping festival: Alibaba touts early sales after withholding data last year, a sign of brighter outlook (scmp)
  4. China’s property stimulus bazooka fuels instant rebound in sentiment as inquiries, home sales in Shanghai, Beijing jump (scmp)
  5. China stock rally far from over as Beijing doles out stimulus: Alpine Macro (streetinsider)
  6. Hedge Funds Trim Big Tech Exposure in Hunt for Other AI Winners (bloomberg)
  7. The SEC’s T+1 settlement rule will transform stock trading: Here’s what you need to know. (marketwatch)
  8. Risky Bonds Join Everything Rally (wsj)
  9. The Highest Paid CEOs of 2023 (wsj)
  10. Biogen to Pay Up to $1.8 Billion for Immune Drug Developer (bloomberg)
  11. The last bear on Wall Street: Why JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic is sticking by his forecast for a 20% market sell-off (businessinsider)
  12. ‘Not a good sign:’ Lululemon (LULU) stock down after CPO departs (streetinsider)
  13. A tidal wave of cash is headed for markets post-Nvidia results, this strategist argues. (marketwatch)
  14. Several Chinese cities slash down payments, mortgage rates to boost property demand (yahoo)
  15. Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence (ft)
  16. Japan’s 10-year yield tops 1% for first time in 11 years (ft)
  17. Time to Pounce: 2 Ultra-High-Yield S&P 500 Dividend Stocks That Are Screaming Buys Right Now (fool)
  18. BABA-SW Pumps US$230M into Lazada (aastocks)
  19. Chinese premier stresses financial support for real economy (cn)
  20. It’s not your imagination. Pickleball courts are everywhere (cnbc)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Intel Set to Launch AI-Centric Processors Meeting Microsoft Standards by Q3 2024 (elblog)
  2. Vans’ New Sneaker Is a Beautiful Slip-on Skate Shoe Hybrid (highsnobiety)
  3. Goldman Says Equity Investors Bracing for Return of Volatility (bloomberg)
  4. The Fed Still Needs a Few Months of Good Data to Cut Rates, Says a Governor (barrons)
  5. Microsoft’s Week of AI Starts With News About PCs (barrons)
  6. ChatGPT Has Competition. How Google’s Gemini Compares. (barrons)
  7. Can Artificial Intelligence Make the PC Cool Again? (nytimes)
  8. Many Quit Weight-Loss Drugs Too Early for Benefits, Insurer Says (bloomberg)
  9. The $367,000 Ferrari 296 GTS Hybrid Joins the Great Car Hall of Fame (bloomberg)
  10. Quantum Computing Gets Real: It Could Even Shorten Your Airport Connection (wsj)

Be in the know. 12 key reads for Monday…

  1. Wall Street’s biggest bear flips, raises S&P 500 price target by 20% (yahoo)
  2. Deck Maker’s $450 Million Bet on America’s Renovation Boom (wsj)
  3. Alibaba Shares Rise as Investors Grow Confident in Long-Term Outlook (wsj)
  4. ‘Dumb Money’ Loses $13.1 Billion In Latest GameStop Stock Mania (investors)
  5. Chinese stocks see ‘golden cross’ in latest sign rally could continue (marketwatch)
  6. <Research>G Sachs Raises 12-Mth Target of MSCI China Index to 70 pts, CSI 300 to 4,100 pts (aastocks)
  7. BABA’s Taobao Tmall ‘618’ To Offer RMB200B Rapid Repayment Quota to Merchants (aastocks)
  8. Will China’s plan for housing buys help smooth the road to economic recovery? (scmp)
  9. China’s capital markets set for ‘renewed growth for many years to come’ after Beijing’s rescue actions: investors (scmp)
  10. Florida’s 125% Surge in Property-Insurance Bills Sows Havoc (bloomberg)
  11. Opinion: Corporate insiders at these companies are telling us that consumers are cruising (marketwatch)
  12. Dollar rally falters as falling inflation raises hopes of rate cuts (ft)