Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. Wall Street Poised to Get Long-Sought Changes to Volcker Limits (Bloomberg)
2. ‘Tesla Killers’ Are Having A Really Hard Time Killing Tesla (Bloomberg)
3. Baidu.com (BIDU) Tops Q2 EPS by 60c (Street Insider)
4. Senior White House officials eye tax cut to avert slowdown: Washington Post (Street Insider)
5. These New Cars Have the Most Powerful Engines (24/7 Wall Street)
6. Baker Hughes Stock Slumped on GE Allegations, and Insiders Bought Up Shares (Barron’s)
7. Bank Regulator Pitches Low-Income Lending Rule Changes on U.S. Road Trip (Wall Street Journal)
8. Trump Administration Delays Ban on Huawei Working With U.S. Firms (Wall Street Journal)
9. The tide may be turning for the worst-performing S&P sector this year (CNBC)
10. Howard Marks: there’s sanity in stocks (MoneyWeek)

1. Apple CEO warns Trump about China tariffs, Samsung competition (Reuters)
2. This Year’s Tech IPOs Face a New Test (Barrons)
3. Euro zone bond yields rise from record lows, 30-year leads way (Reuters)
4. Powell Likely to Use Jackson Hole to Suggest Fed Ready to Cut (Bloomberg)
5. Tesla reboots its solar-panel business by offering rentals (MarketWatch)

1. Where Hedge Funds Made Big Bets: Buying Uber, Selling Microsoft (Bloomberg)
2. The life rule Ray Dalio taught his son about success (CNBC)
3. A Century of Weird, Wonderful Concept Cars ()
4. AbbVie Stock Jumps After Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Gains OK; Rivaling Lilly, Pfizer (Investor’s Business Daily)
5. Hedge Fund Fees Continue To Shrink, But That’s Not The Whole Story (ValueWalk)
6. Apple CEO Tim Cook has met Trump at least 5 times in a year in a desperate bid to keep him on-side amid the trade war (Business Insider)
7. David Tepper Invests in 2 Managed Care Companies in 2nd Quarter (Guru Focus)
8. What I Learned at Camp Kotok (Advisor Perspectives)
9. 5 Reasons to Consider Buying Berkshire Hathaway (Morningstar)
10. Charles Koch — CEO of Koch Industries (Tim Ferriss Podcast)

1. Wall Street Has Abandoned Oil and Gas Stocks. You Shouldn’t. (Barron’s)
2. American Eagle Stock Will Soar Despite the Trade War (Barron’s)
3. Copper prices could take off as supply tightens (Barron’s)
4. Strong consumer spending points away from a recession (Barron’s)
5. How to Avoid Recession? Cut Rates Like It’s 1995. (Barron’s)
6. Ackman Calls Berkshire a ‘Misunderstood’ Cash Machine (Barron’s)
7. Alibaba ADRs Are Rising Because of Strong Earnings. Here’s What Wall Street Thinks. (Barron’s)
8. Deere Stock Is Up Because All the Bad News Was Known (Barron’s)
9. Why The Co-Founder of Allbirds Always Exercises Before His Flight (Wall Street Journal)
10. Silicon Valley Goes to Congress in First Trailer for the Final Season (Vanity Fair)
11. Here’s what Powell could say at Jackson Hole to soothe the roller coaster markets
(CNBC)
12. BofA’s CEO Says the Biggest Recession Risk Is the Fear of Recession (Bloomberg)
13. Bugatti Channels Early ’90s Supercar Swag in New $8.9 Million Auto (Bloomberg)
14. Why the ECB Will Stuff Free Money Into Bank Pockets Again (Bloomberg)
15. Fed’s Kashkari Backs More Policy Support as Recession Risks Rise (Bloomberg)
16. These are the 15 hottest destinations billionaires are traveling to in 2019 (Business Insider)
17. More and More Public Companies Are Going Private (Institutional Investor)
18. ‘The Worst That Activist Short Selling Has to Offer’ (Institutional Investor)
19. Comedian Jim Gaffigan Rakes In $30 Million By Ditching Netflix And Betting On Himself (Forbes)
20. Tencent and other Chinese tech firms are reporting decent results (Economist)

1. The flat-out silly Markopolos GE report (Bronte Capital)
2. GE CEO Larry Culp bought nearly $2 million worth of the company’s stock after fraud accusation (CNBC)
3. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Stanley Druckenmiller, Bill Ackman, Engine Capital, ViewRay, Inc. (VRAY), NiSource Inc. (NI), and More (Insider Monkey)
4. Energy Could Be a Surprise Beneficiary of an Inverted Yield Curve (Barron’s)
5. Buffett, Loeb, and Paulson Reveal Second-Quarter Holdings (Barron’s)
6. A Guide to Investing From the Richest Family on the Planet (Bloomberg)
7. Alibaba just keeps growing (Business Insider)
8. Instagram’s Changes Could Leave Influencers Heartbroken (Wall Street Journal)
9. President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland (Wall Street Journal)
10. Once Asking $1 Billion, America’s Priciest Listing Is Scheduled for Auction (Wall Street Journal)

 

1. Someone’s Betting Big on an S&P 500 Rebound as Sell-Off Worsens (Bloomberg)
2. Worried? History Says Don’t Be — Yet  (Barron’s)
3. Bill Ackman Is Betting Big on Berkshire Hathaway  (Barron’s)
4. The case for higher oil prices (Barron’s)
5. President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was a “great leader” and posed setting up a “personal meeting” to solve escalating protests in Hong Kong. (Business Insider)
6. After the yield curve inverts — here’s how the stock market tends to perform since 1978 (MarketWatch)
7. Lumber Liquidators: Get in on the Ground Floor (Wall Street Journal)
8. U.S. retail sales surge in July in boost to economy (Reuters)
9. Stocks set for strong open after China says it hopes to meet halfway on trade issues (CNBC)
10. Warren Buffett Is a Huge Backer of U.S. Banks (Wall Street Journal)

1. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Dmitry Balyasny, Jim Chanos, Tom Steyer, Third Point LLC, General Electric Company (GE), Ames National Corporation (ATLO), and More (Insider Monkey)
2. Falling Bond Yields Make Equities Hard to Ignore (Wall Street Journal)
3. Drudge Headline Indicator Highs and Lows (Bespoke)
4. Caterpillar and GE See Power Markets Improving. That’s Good News for the Stocks. (Barron’s)
5. When Will Boeing 737 Max Fly Again and More Questions (Bloomberg)
6. Fannie, Freddie to Consider Alternatives to FICO Scores (Wall Street Journal)
7. Regeneron Announces Positive Topline Results from Phase 3 Trial of Evinacumab in Patients with Severe, Inherited Form of High Cholesterol (Yahoo Finance)

1. Volcker Revamp to Ease Banks’ Trading Rules, Path to Investments (Bloomberg)
2. Trump’s Canada Drug Import Plan Can’t Happen Without Big Pharma ()
3. Goldman Favors High-Dividend Stocks on Most-in-40-Years Discount (Bloomberg)
4. JD.com Earnings Trounce Views In Second Quarter, Sending Shares Higher (Investors)
5. The Case for GE Stock Doubling (Barron’s)
6. After $140 Billion Wipeout, Alibaba and Tencent Bid for Comeback (Bloomberg)
7. General Electric (GE) CEO Culp Buys $3 Million in Stock (StreetInsider)

1. 5 Big Pharma Showdowns to Watch ()
2. Sunday Strategist: Today’s Contrarian Ketchup Consumers (Bloomberg)
3. Cult-Favorite Topo Chico Breaks Out of Texas With Help From Coke (Bloomberg)
4. Lincoln and Cadillac Are Still Cool Cars in China (Bloomberg)
5. My Thoughts on the US-China War – Ray Dalio (Linkedin)

1. Dallas Museum of Art Offers Rare Look at a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Forbes)
2. Largest Industry in Each State (24/7 Wall St.)
3. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Tom Steyer, Sprott Asset Management, Canyon Partners, Southwestern Energy Company (SWN), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), and More (Insider Monkey)
4. LBOs Make (More) Companies Go Bankrupt, Research Shows (Institutional Investor)
5. He Started as a Doorman at a Marriott. Now He Runs a $3 Billion Hotel Empire (Inc.)
6. Currency Wars & A Pepperoni Problem (npr)
7. Is China Manipulating Its Currency? (CRR)
8. What Negative Interest Rates Mean for the World (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
9. Do Automotive Dealers Want to Sell Electric Cars? (Energy Fuse)
10. Permian productivity pessimism challenged (Oil & Gas Journal)
11. Badass Planes, Ranked (Popular Mechanics)