- How Jim Simons Built the Best Hedge Fund Ever (Bloomberg)
- The “Three Tenors” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…(ZeroHedge)
- Stocks Are Hitting New Highs. The Yield Curve Might Be the Reason. (Barron’s)
- Lyft Raises Guidance, Reports Increased Revenue (Wall Street Journal)
- Mnuchin Says China Deal Is Likely to Be Signed in November (New York Times)
- Kraft Heinz stock jumps on earnings beat (CNBC)
- U.S. consumer spending rises moderately, wages flat (Reuters)
- Exclusive: Beijing could ax extra tariffs on U.S. farm products to boost imports – China trade association chief (Reuters)
- Two Harvard Twins (No, Not Those Twins) Run One of the World’s Worst BDCs. They’re About to Get Rich. (Institutional Investor)
- Democrats Just Accidentally Sparked A Federal Fracking Boom (Yahoo! Finance)
Category: What I’m Reading Today
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Wednesday…
- Stocks Hit Records. Bears Grow More Skeptical. History Says This Is a Good Combo. (Barron’s)
- Incoming ECB President Lagarde says big European countries aren’t spending enough: report (MarketWatch)
- Experts Talk Hot Biotech Stocks at Barron’s Breakfast (Barron’s)
- Big Money Poll: Bears Rise to a Two-Decade-Plus High (Barron’s)
- RPT-Ex-FDA chief Gottlieb sees investment opportunity in ‘unloved’ antibiotics (Reuters)
- Here’s how the stock market tends to perform after the Fed cuts interest rates 3 times in a row (MarketWatch)
- Amazon Turns to More Free Grocery Delivery to Lift Food Sales (New York Times)
- Chasing Unlimited Energy With the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor (Bloomberg)
- General Electric (GE) Tops Q3 EPS by 4c, Offers FY Guidance (StreetInsider)
- Natural-Gas Prices Jump as Producers Promise Restraint (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…
- Stock Market Record Surprises Skeptics Yet Again (New York Times)
- The Always Exhilarating, Sometimes Lucrative Lives of Brexit Currency Traders (Bloomberg)
- 5,000 Tesla Model 3 Owners Tell Us What Elon Musk Got Right and Wrong (Bloomberg)
- ConocoPhillips Profit Beats Estimates as Shale Oil Output Gains (Bloomberg)
- The market will drop 25% if Warren wins the election, says hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones (CNBC)
- Are Electric Cars Good for the Environment? (ZeroHedge)
- Pfizer (PFE) Tops Q3 EPS by 13c, Raises FY Guidance (StreetInsider)
- China’s factory activity seen contracting for sixth month on trade pressure: Reuters poll (Reuters)
- Kellogg profit beats on higher demand for snacks, frozen foods (Yahoo! Finance)
- A Wealth Tax Is Simply Un-American (Yahoo! Finance)
Be in the know. 5 key reads for Monday…
- What’s in a Deal? The Brexit Extension’s Key Points Summarized (Bloomberg)
- RBC Has 4 E&P Energy Stocks to Buy With at Least 50% Implied Upside (24/7 Wall Street)
- Eddie Murphy is Back and Oscar-Bound (hasn’t lost a step): (Vanity Fair)
- ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Is Dead, Trump Says (New York Times)
- Tesla’s solar-roof sales will grow ‘like kelp on steroids,’ Musk vows (MarketWatch)
Be in the know. 12 key reads for Sunday…
- How Costco Succeeded By Doing The Opposite Of Amazon (Digg)
- This Hedge Fund Returns 22% Annually, Here Are Its Latest Picks (Insider Monkey)
- The ‘Alfa Romeo Montreal Vision GT’ Looks Like the Future of Italian Horsepower (Maxim)
- Barron’s Picks And Pans: Altria, Square, Walmart And More (Yahoo! Finance)
- Bishops Ask Pope to Approve Married Priests, and Open the Way to Women Deacons (Daily Beast)
- Aldi, Right Moves – The German Grocer Sending Shock Waves Throughout Walmart and Kroger (Forbes)
- French luxury group LVMH offers to buy U.S jeweler Tiffany: sources (Reuters)
- Episode 947: Some-of-the-Money Ball (NPR Planet Money)
- If gambling is all probability, why aren’t mathematicians the richest people? (Quora)
- The Definitive Nate Silver Candy Poll (FiveThirtyEight)
- New Gene-Editing Tool Could Fix Genetic Defects—with Fewer Unwanted Effects (Scientific American)
- The Best All-You-Can-Eat Buffet in Every State (Reader’s Digest)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…
- Tesla starts selling China-made Model 3 with autopilot function (New York Post)
- Microsoft snags hotly contested $10 billion defense contract, beating out Amazon (CNBC)
- She lost her arm in a shark attack, but surfer Bethany Hamilton is living ‘an unstoppable life’ (CNN)
- Jeff Kagan: Walmart Health Wants to Disrupt Healthcare (Equities)
- Three things to watch when the Fed meets next week (MarketWatch)
- Margot Robbie Becomes Her Own Biggest Competition in the Oscar Race (Vanity Fair)
- The Kenny Chesney “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” Stock Market: (AAII Sentiment Survey) (ZeroHedge)
- GM Strike Ends After Almost Six Weeks At Cost Of $2 Billion (Investors)
- ‘They Were Like Gods’ (Institutional Investor)
- How did Mohnish Pabrai inspire Guy Spier? An interview in the Aquamarine Fund’s office in Zurich (YouTube)
- What Black Monday Taught Us (Morningstar)
- Ayn Rand on Why Philosophy Matters (Farnam Street)
- 5G Is a Lot of Hype, But There Are Still Real Opportunities for Investors (Barron’s)
- Great Escapes: France’s Enchanting Loire Valley (Barron’s)
- Oil prices clock strong weekly gains on trade hopes, crude supply (Street Insider)
- U.S., China say they are ‘close to finalizing’ part of a Phase One trade deal (Reuters)
- This unexpected trade-war outcome will send stocks soaring, says Jefferies analyst (MarketWatch)
- Blackstone’s Online-Shopping Play: 800 Million Square Feet of Warehouses (Wall Street Journal)
- Boris Johnson Wants a Brexit Election. He May Not Get It. (Wall Street Journal)
- The Drones Are Coming! How Amazon, Alphabet and Uber Are Taking to the Skies (Wall Street Journal)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Friday…
- The Future of Power Still Means Fossil Fuels, for Now (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- The Kenny Chesney “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” Stock Market (ZeroHedge)
- Opinion: U.S. stock market has a good chance to record new highs (MarketWatch)
- Opinion: Intel suggests the chip recovery is here, even as rivals are still waiting (MarketWatch)
- Goldman Sachs predicts the Fed will make two big changes next week (CNBC)
- Brexit Relief Fuels Biggest European Equity Inflows in 20 Months (Bloomberg)
- Chipmaker Intel Crushes Third-Quarter Targets, Guides Higher (Investors)
- Natural-Gas Prices Rise on Expectations for Cooler Fall Weather (Wall Street Journal)
- A Biotech Giant Not Named Biogen Also Had a Good Week (Bloomberg)
- Billionaire investor Ron Baron sees the Dow at 650,000 in 50 years (CNBC)
Be in the know. 12 key reads for Thursday…
- China Willing to Buy $20 Billion of U.S. Farm Goods in Year One (Bloomberg)
- The Kenny Chesney “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” Stock Market: (AAII Sentiment Survey Results) (Hedge Fund Tips)
- Health Care Gains as a Warren Victory Looks Less Certain (Barron’s)
- Three Hedge Fund Titans Celebrated Over Dinner. Everything Was Fair Game Except Investing. (Institutional Investor)
- ECB keeps money taps open as Draghi denied grand finale (Reuters)
- British pound hovers around $1.29 as attention turns to EU and possible Brexit extension (MarketWatch)
- How to Watch Scorsese on Broadway (and Why That’s Possible) (New York Times)
- The Complete Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio (U.S. News)
- 6 Energy Stocks for Value Investors (U.S. News)
- Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor Defies Convention — And Wins (Investor’s Business Daily)
- Five Guys has the best french fries in fast food, according to our survey of more than 3,000 customers (Business Insider)
- Elon Musk Makes Good on ‘Short Burn of the Century’, 18 Months Later (Bloomberg)
Be in the know. 12 key reads for Wednesday…
- Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Carl Icahn, Paulson & Co., Corvex Management, Vertex One Asset Management, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (NAK), Moelis & Co. (MC), and More (Insider Monkey)
- Death by Amazon’ Was a False Alarm for Walmart and Some Other Retailers (Barron’s)
- Health Care Gains as a Warren Victory Looks Less Certain (Barron’s)
- The Future of Technology: 16 Predictions (Barron’s) and (196 Slides)
- Tusk Tells Johnson He’ll Recommend Extension: Brexit Update (Bloomberg)
- Opinion: Here’s the stock-market trade this hedge-fund star is most excited about right now (MarketWatch)
- Here’s where hedge-fund shorts are at risk of getting burned (MarketWatch)
- China’s premier says cooperation with the U.S. can create mutual benefit (Reuters)
- Schlumberger- Shale and Deepwater (Yahoo! Finance)
- Range Announces Asset Sales, Enhanced Financial Resources, and Initiation of Share Repurchase Program (Yahoo! Finance)
- 4 Fallen Angel Large-Cap Blue Chips May Have Massive 2020 Rebounds (24/7 Wall Street)
- Google scientists have claimed a massive breakthrough in cutting-edge computing with ‘quantum supremacy’ — here’s what that means (Business Insider)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…
- Biogen Stock Is Soaring as Hope Returns for Alzheimerâs Drug (MarketWatch)
- $8 Billion Fund Manager Picks Battered Indian Auto Stocks (Bloomberg)
- Biden Regains Lead, Warren Too Extreme (Mish Talk)
- Chinese vice foreign minister says progress made in trade talks with U.S. (Reuters)
- Pierre Delecto? Mitt Romneyâs Secret Twitter Account Is Unveiled (Bloomberg)
- FDA approves new breakthrough therapy for cystic fibrosis (Vertex Pharma) (FDA)
- A Commodities Hedge Fund Titan Is Quitting After 50 Years (Hellenic Shipping News)
- Foreign Stocks Are Looking Cheap. 5 Ways to Take Advantage. (Barron’s)
- Last-Minute Opioid Deal Could Open Door to Bigger Settlement (Wall Street Journal)
- SAP Extends Cloud Partnership With Microsoft (Wall Street Journal)