- The S&P 500 Earnings Outlook Is Terrible. It’s Not as Bad as It Looks. (Barron’s)
- China September exports, imports in deeper contraction as tariffs take toll (Reuters)
- Peak Shale: How U.S. Oil Output Went From Explosive to Sluggish (Yahoo! Finance)
- Private-equity deals depress worker wages, study finds (MarketWatch)
- ‘If You Ever Do That to Me Again, I’m Going to Kill You.’ (Institutional Investor)
- Blackstone Talked With Ken Griffin’s Citadel About Buying Stake (Wall Street Journal)
- Apple’s ‘key growth driver’ in 2020 will be a new $399 iPhone, top analyst says CNBC)
- Western Digital upgraded to Buy from Hold at Loop Capital (TheFly)
Category: What I’m Reading Today
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Sunday…
- What The %!&# Is The Repo Market? (NPR Planet Money)
- ‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Review: Fan Service Firing on All Cylinders (Rolling Stone)
- ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
- The Best of Goethe’s Aphorisms (Farnam Street)
- Is Amazon Unstoppable? (New Yorker)
- How Florida Georgia Line Helped Country Music Reinvigorate Itself (GQ)
- Wells Fargo report: A.I. will cut 200,000 American bank jobs over next decade (Big Think)
- Why Governments Haven’t Learned The Lessons Of Japan (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
- Mini Trade Deal Could Be Huge Catalyst For Oil (Oil Price)
- GE and 4 More Favorite Stocks From a Fan of Disruption (Barron’s)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Saturday…
- Federal Reserve Gives Large Banks a Break on Postcrisis Rules (Wall Street Journal)
- New Cocoa-Pricing Method Makes for a Hot Commodity (Wall Street Journal)
- U.S. Steel Boosts Revenue Outlook (Wall Street Journal)
- Millennials Are Making Babies. These Stocks Could Bounce. (Barron’s)
- Porsche and Boeing Want to Build This Sexy Flying Car Together (Futurism)
- When EBITDA Is Just BS (Institutional Investor)
- U.S. and China Reach a Truce on Trade (Wall Street Journal)
- Fed’s Plan to Buy Treasury Bills ($60B/month) (Bloomberg)
- Frank & Jerome (The Chairmen) agree: The Best is Yet to Come (AAII Sentiment Results) (Hedge Fund Tips)
- No, SoftBank Won’t Go Down in Flames: Term Sheet (Fortune)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Friday…
- Opinion: These battered biotech stocks are now buying opportunities as Elizabeth Warren climbs in the polls (MarketWatch)
- What May Have Driven David Tepper’s Big Decision (Institutional Investor)
- Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Kyle Bass, Warren Buffett, Silver Point Capital, Kraft Heinz Co (KHC), and More (Insider Monkey)
- Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (The Atlantic)
- SAP Stock Jumps After Strong Earnings Pre-Announcement, CEO Succession (Barron’s)
- Aussie dollar up on hopes of U.S.-China trade deal, sterling surges on Brexit deal hopes (Street Insider)
- For hedge funds, software-as-a-service stocks are the new FAANG (MarketWatch)
- 5 Raymond James Analyst Favorite Picks With Huge Implied Upside (24/7 Wall Street)
- Here’s how the Fed’s balance sheet expansion that’s got the market excited is going to work (CNBC)
- Trump just joined Amazon’s video game streaming site Twitch, even though he has major beef with Jeff Bezos (Business Insider)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…
- U.S. Weighs Currency Pact With China as Part of Partial Deal (Bloomberg)
- Fed’s Kaplan has ‘open mind’ on rate cuts, watching U.S. yield curve (Reuters)
- Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Boaz Weinstein, Eddie Lampert, Ray Dalio, AQR Capital Management, Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (MPWR), Catalent Inc (CTLT), and More (Insider Monkey)
- No Inflation: US consumer prices were unchanged in September, the weakest reading since January (CNBC)
- How people vote in 2020 will come down to the economy (New York Post)
- The Fed chose ‘ounce of prevention’ with rate cut. Expect more. (Barron’s)
- Fed Officials Voice Concern About Slowdown’s Effect on Hiring (New York Times)
- Stock Traders Pay Biggest Premium to Shun Volatility in 41 Years (Bloomberg)
- From summer janitor to CEO of Disney: What fueled Bob Iger’s rise to the top (CNBC)
- Frank & Jerome (The Chairmen) agree: The Best is Yet to Come (AAII Sentiment Results) (Hedge Fund Tips)
Be in the know. 8 key reads for Wednesday…
- Fox Stock Has Sold Off Since the Disney Deal. How It Can Bounce Back. (Barron’s)
- Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: David Tepper, Joel Greenblatt, Seth Klarman, Bain Capital, Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR), Carnival PLC (CUK), and More (Insider Monkey)
- A Hard Lesson in Silicon Valley: Profits Matter (New York Times)
- Fed Chair Powell Signals Balance Sheet Will Grow Soon After Recent Market Turmoil (New York Times)
- Weekly mortgage refinances jump 10% as rates drop to the lowest level since August (CNBC)
- China ready to discuss a partial trade deal and will increase US agricultural purchases, reports say (CNBC)
- Small-Cap Tech Stocks Are Cheap And Might Be Ready to Rally (Barron’s)
- Want to Sit in This Ultra-Rare Ferrari? Just Ask. (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 5 key reads for Tuesday…
- Fed’s Kashkari says more easing needed, not sure how much (Reuters)
- Three Key Recession Indicators Are Sending Mixed Signals. Here’s What to Watch. (Barron’s)
- Cisco Systems Could Finally Rally Back to Its Bubble-Era Highs. One Analyst Explains How. (Barron’s)
- Elizabeth Warren Overtakes Joe Biden In Democratic Presidential Race: IBD/TIPP Poll (Investor’s)
- ETFs Get All the Buzz, but Mutual Funds Still Dominate. There’s a Reason. (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 11 key reads for Monday…
- An Investment Tip From Mr. ZIP: Spot a coming trend and buy something close. No one knows exactly what’ll take off. (Wall Street Journal)
- Tepper’s Appaloosa Has Large S&P Call Option Position (Market Realist)
- GE to freeze pensions for about 20,000 employees, stock surges (MarketWatch)
- Barron’s Picks And Pans: Netflix, Raytheon, Spotify, Taiwan Semi And More (Yahoo! Finance)
- Review: The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye is a big, brash, intoxicating supercar (CNBC)
- Netflix has focused on India as a key area for growth. Exclusive data tells the story of its progress. (Business Insider)
- People Who Work from Home Earn $2,000 More a Year (Bloomberg)
- Goldman Says It’s Too Early to Call End to Equity Bull Market (Bloomberg)
- JPMorgan Says Euro Area to Be Key Equities Winner in Brexit Deal (Bloomberg)
- It’s ‘Too Early to Turn Cautious’ on Stocks (Barron’s)
- Fed Confronts Balance-Sheet Decisions to Curb Money-Market Volatility (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Sunday…
- There’s No Recession Coming. The Fed Will Make Sure of That. (Barron’s)
- ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
- How Iceland’s Tourism Bubble Deflated (NPR Planet Money)
- Externalities: Why We Can Never Do “One Thing” (Farnam Street)
- The Coming Crisis of China’s One-Party Regime (Project Syndicate)
- The Negative Effects of Chinese Financial Repression (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
- 10 Walt Disney Quotes That Could Boost Your Small Business (Entrepreneur)
- Buy Delta stock or sell it? Your time horizon is the key. (Barron’s)
- Odds Apple Buys Netflix Advance (24/7 Wall Street)
- How to Succeed in Business? Major in Liberal Arts (Bloomberg)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…
- Charles Schwab, Lennar, Johnson & Johnson: Stocks That Defined the Week (Wall Street Journal)
- Fed Officials Signal Openness to More Easing After Jobs Report (Bloomberg)
- The 2019 S&P 500 Sector Quilt (awealthofcommonsense)
- LEAPS (focusedcompounding)
- Stephen Schwarzman Hung Out a Shingle. Then He Waited (Institutional Investor)
- Google in talks to acquire TikTok rival Firework (New York Post)
- The Fed Will Give the Market What It Wants. Again (Bloomberg)
- Powell Says Economy Faces Some Risks But Still in Good Place (Bloomberg)
- JPMorgan, BlackRock Say Investors Too Cautious on Repeat of 2008 (Bloomberg)
- Banksy’s ‘Devolved Parliament’ painting showing monkeys in House of Commons sold for $12 million (Luxuo)
- I spent the day with a New Jersey commuter who rides a Jet Ski to work, and it changed the way I think about my week (Business Insider)
- The Fed says it will continue overnight repos of at least $75 billion through November 4 (Business Insider)
- Shipping Fuel Is About to Get Cleaner. What It Means for Investors. (Barron’s)
- A GE Stock Bear Trashed the Aviation Unit. Here’s Why Investors Shouldn’t Worry. (Barron’s)
- Banks Expected to Get Break on Postcrisis Rules (Wall Street Journal)
- Opportunity Zones Aren’t a Program—They’re a Market (Fortune)
- Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Glenn Dubin, Tiger Global Management, Arrowgrass Capital Partners, Darsana Capital Partners, Apple Inc. (AAPL), PROS Holdings, Inc. (PRO), and More (Insider Monkey)
- Top 20 Best Warren Buffett Quotes On Money, Life And Success (ValueWalk)
- Zuckerberg misunderstands the huge threat of TikTok (TechCrunch)
- The Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World (The Ringer)