Be in the know. 7 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Global oil market in glut, but not a big enough one for OPEC (Reuters)
  2. Four reasons why antitrust actions will likely fail to break up Big Tech (MarketWatch)
  3. Trump Really Might Weaken the Dollar (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Shopping Mall REIT Stocks Could Benefit Because Growth Expectations Are Low (Barron’s)
  5. UPS Earnings Top On Strong U.S. Growth; Shipping Giant Raises Guidance (Investor’s Business Daily)
  6. Value Stocks Haven’t Traded This Low Since the Dot-Com Bubble (Bloomberg)
  7. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Stanley Druckenmiller, Whitney Tilson, Perceptive Advisors, Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK), Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc (IONS), Schlumberger Limited. (SLB), and More ()

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Biogen climbs as profits surge 72%, prompting the firm to boost 2019 guidance (BIIB) (Business Insider)
  2. U.S. farmers look past trade fears to cash in on China’s hog crisis (Reuters)
  3. United Technologies’ earnings crush Wall Street forecasts (MarketWatch)
  4. Warren Buffett took Occidental CEO ‘to the cleaners’: Carl Icahn (New York Post)
  5. Coca-Cola raises revenue forecast after earnings beat, sending shares higher (CNBC)
  6. Oil Stocks Could Get a Boost From Lower Interest Rates. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  7. The 35 celebrities and athletes who make the most money per Instagram post, ranked (Business Insider)

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Monday…

  1. Central Banks Are in Sync on Need for Fresh Stimulus (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Fight the Fed With These Three Regional Bank Stocks (Barron’s)
  3. The Biggest Investing Bet on Tech Is Cheap—and Controversial (Barron’s)
  4. Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe (New York Times)
  5. Why Weak Corporate Earnings Don’t Signal a Weak Economy (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Why Stocks Are Still the Best Investment, Even After a 10-Year Run (Barron’s)
  7. A Karate Master’s Secret Weapon: Ping Pong (Wall Street Journal)
  8. A Reality Check for Solar and Wind (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 11 key reads for Sunday…

  1. James Bond’s 1965 Aston Martin From ‘Goldfinger’ Is Going Up for Auction Next Month (Robb Report)
  2. The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get Real (Fortune)
  3. UBS predicts plant-based meat sales could grow by more than 25% a year to $85 billion by 2030 (Business Insider)
  4. Gold Rush 2.0 (NPR)
  5. What economists have gotten wrong for decades (VOX)
  6. How It Feels to Drive—and Crash—the First-Ever Mid-Engine Corvette (Wired)
  7. Blockchain: It’s About Customers, Not Cryptocurrencies (YPO)
  8. Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head  (Ted)
  9. Are Central Banks Losing Their Big Bet? (Project Syndicate)
  10. Elon Musk’s Secretive Brain Tech Company Debuts a Sophisticated Neural Implant (Scientific American)
  11. Billionaire Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya: To Be Truly Successful Break These 3 Stupid Business Rules (Inc.)

Be in the know. 19 key reads for Saturday…

  1. How Media Mogul John C. Malone Quietly Became America’s Largest Landowner (Maxim)
  2. Share Buybacks Surge in China (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Dividend Increases Are Expected From Oreo Maker Mondelez and 3 Others (Barron’s)
  4. The Big Obstacle on the Road to Electric Vehicles (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Toys R Us turns to tech to revive defunct chain (Financial Times)
  6. When Good Intentions Go Bad: My Interview with Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt [The Knowledge Project Ep. #61] (Farnam Street)
  7. There Was Another Concert in 1969 That Changed Pop Music (Bloomberg)
  8. Ten Juicy Secrets About Restaurants I Learned Working as Nobu’s Maitre D’ (Bloomberg)
  9. Josh Brown: Sometimes the best returns come from CEOs you’ve never heard of (CNBC)
  10. ‘Top Gun 2’: Everything we know about ‘Maverick’ after Tom Cruise drops first trailer (USA Today)
  11. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put a flag on the moon. Here’s what you can and can’t see in the iconic photo (USA Today)
  12. How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune (Forbes)
  13. Hedge Fund Investor Letters 2019 Q2 (Insider Monkey)
  14. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Anthony Scaramucci, Oaktree Capital Management, ICF International Inc (ICFI), Unit Corporation (UNT), Central Garden & Pet Co (CENT), and More (Insider Monkey)
  15. Allison Schrager Discusses Monetary Policy (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  16. Does Human Behavior Move the Markets? (Goldman Sachs Exchanges)
  17. 100 Best Adventures in America on Public Lands (Men’s Journal)
  18. WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO (TechCrunch)
  19. A Design Lover’s Guide to Montreal (Architectural Digest)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Energy shares could double by 2020, so buy now, says contrarian investor (MartketWatch)
  2. Raymond James upgrades Apple on ‘increased conviction in a 5G iPhone’ (CNBC)
  3. Paradigm Shifts by Ray Dalio (LinkedIn)
  4. UnitedHealth lifts 2019 profit forecast after topping second-quarter estimates (MarketWatch)
  5. More Solid Bank Results: Morgan Stanley beats profit estimates as rising stocks benefit wealth management and fund business (CNBC)
  6. Mnuchin: Phone call on trade with China counterparts set for Thursday, ‘complicated issues’ remain (CNBC)
  7. Mnuchin says progress being made on debt limit deal (CNBC)
  8. There’s light at the end of the tunnel for small caps, analysts say (MarketWatch)
  9. Hedge Fund Beating S&P 500 on Stodgy Bets Goes All-In on Stocks (Bloomberg)
  10. Airline Profits Are Flying but Investors Don’t Care (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Frontier Markets Are on Sale — but It Could Be a Wild Ride (Barron’s)
  12. Here’s how the new Corvette Stingray could morph into a ‘fire-breathing monster’ (USA Today)
  13. Netflix Loses U.S. Subscribers as Price Increases Take a Toll (New York Times)
  14. Buy Luckin Coffee Stock Because Its Growth Story Is Still Going, Analyst Says (Barron’s)
  15. Texas Showdown Flares Up Over Natural-Gas Waste (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Bank of America beats analysts’ profit estimates on retail banking strength (CNBC)
  2. Don’t Scoff at Influencers. They’re Taking Over the World. (New York Times)
  3. Opposite of Conventional Wisdom (The Irrelevant Investor)
  4. S. Manufacturers Are Getting Out of Their Slump. Maybe. (Barron’s)
  5. How Much Boeing Stock Is Worth If the 737 MAX Never Flies Again (Barron’s)
  6. Powell Says Fed Must Pay Greater Attention to Global Developments (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Influencers Seek Wall Street’s Help to Manage Newfound Wealth (Bloomberg)
  8. Lotus’s $2.1 Million Evija Electric Hypercar Doesn’t Have Door Handles (Bloomberg)
  9. This chart pattern is popping up all over the market and could signal a breakout for stocks (CNBC)
  10. (GM’s best decision in years): ‘I Refuse to Call it a Corvette.’ GM Moves the Engine, Revs Up a Revolt (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Wells Fargo earnings blow past estimates (MarketWatch)
  2. JPMorgan profit beats estimates on strength in consumer banking (Reuters)
  3. Johnson & Johnson beats profit estimates on pharma strength, raises sales outlook ()
  4. Goldman Sachs earnings blow past Wall Street on strong investment banking, trading results (CNBC)
  5. Citigroup Reports Higher Earnings as Bank Results Begin (Wall Street Journal)
  6. The Future of Interactive Sports on a Brooklyn Race Course (Barron’s)
  7. The Overplayed, Turbohyped, and Underwhelming World of Artificial Intelligence (Institutional Investor)

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Monday…

  1. Potential positive for Drug Stocks: Trump took 3 big losses on healthcare this week, and the losing streak probably isn’t going to end anytime soon (Business Insider)
  2. Trump sees slowing Chinese growth pressuring Beijing on trade (Reuters)
  3. Health companies start reporting earnings next week: Here are 3 things to keep in mind (MarketWatch)
  4. Gilead (GILD) Expands Collaboration with Galapagos (GLPG), Raises Stake to 22% (StreetInsider)
  5. Warren Buffett to MBA students: This is what ‘sets apart a big winner from the rest of the pack’ (CNBC)
  6. The Space Economy Is Starting to Take Shape 50 Years After the Moon Landing (Barron’s)
  7. Manufacturers Move Supply Chains Out of China (Wall Street Journal)
  8. JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and More Major Financial Earnings This Week (24/7 Wall Street)

Be in the know. 13 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Meet the A.I. Landlord That’s Building a Single-Family-Home Empire (Fortune)
  2. From a Track-Only Ford GT to De Tomaso’s Return, 5 Standout Cars at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed (Robb Report)
  3. Football Legend Joe Montana Lists Sonoma Estate for $28.9 Million (Architectural Digest)
  4. John Legend on Fatherhood, How to Handle Failure, and Essential Albums Everyone Should Listen To (Men’s Journal)
  5. Floyd Mayweather Literally Laughs at Idea of Conor McGregor Rematch (Maxim)
  6. Jim Cramer: Save the Bubble Talk for the Bath (TheStreet)
  7. Kanye’s Second Coming: Inside The Billion-Dollar Yeezy Empire ()
  8. Episode 926: So, Should We Recycle? (NPR Planet Money)
  9. This Warby Parker Co-Founder’s Next Startup Set Out to Beat a Razor Giant. 6 Years Later, He Sold Harry’s for $1.3 Billion (Inc.)
  10. Teucrium Trading’s Sal Gilbertie Talks Tariffs, Climate Change and American Farming (Worth)
  11. Barry Production Shut-Ins Exceeding LNG Disruptions as Natural Gas Futures Rally (Natural Gas Intel)
  12. Embezzelcoin ( Ed’s Blog)
  13. The De Tomaso P72 GT is what happens when a Classic 60s Supercar is Designed Today (Luxuo)