Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. Stocks could have a ‘melt-up’ from here, BlackRock’s Larry Fink says (CNBC)
2. Bank of America posts another record quarterly profit on strength of Main Street lending (CNBC)
3. Goldman Sachs expects weak earnings growth across all major markets in 2019 (CNBC)
4. A trade war between the US and Europe is unlikely to happen. Here’s why (CNBC)
5. German economy gets positive signal amid slowdown (Fox Business)
6. France’s superrich join together to pledge over $450 million to help rebuild Notre-Dame, as donations flood in to save the devastated cathedral (Business Insider)
7. Trump on China trade spat: ‘We’re going to win either way’ (Reuters)

 

1. Tiger Woods, in a Stirring Return to the Top, Captures the Masters at 43   (New York Times)
2. American Airlines is extending its cancellation of Boeing 737 Max flights through August (Business Insider)
3. Stunning new cars, SUVs featured at the 2019 New York Auto Show (USA Today)
4. EU countries back starting trade talks with United States (Reuters)
5. Exclusive: U.S. waters down demand China ax subsidies in push for trade deal – sources (Reuters)
6. COLUMN-Hedge funds’ oil positions start to look stretched: Kemp (Reuters)
7. Why the middle class is shrinking (MarketWatch)
8. Carry Trade Lifts Emerging Markets Still on Lookout for Growth (Bloomberg)

 

1. Tiger Woods Has Bookmakers Sweating After Third Round of Masters (Bloomberg)
2. Stifel Has 5 Top Energy Stocks to Buy Under $10 With Massive Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
3. The Winklevoss Twins Discuss Gemini and Facebook (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
4. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: AQR Capital Management, Greenlight Capital, Soros Fund Management, Lonestar Resources US Inc (LONE), Bassett Furniture Industries Inc. (BSET), and More (Insider Monkey)
5. Why the NHL’s best team in decades is unlikely to win the Stanley Cup (Economist)
6. Here Are the 21st Century’s Best Supercars (So Far) (Robb Report)
7. Here’s A Pretty Cool Magic Coin Trick (Digg)
8. You Can Buy a Vacation Home in Italy for Just $1, But There’s a Catch (Maxim)
9. No Trespassing! 16 Celebrities Who Own Private Islands (People)
10. Episode 906:The Chicago Boys, Part II (NPR Planet Money)
11. Episode 19-15 Beyond Moonshots? There’s Loonshots (Tech Nation)
12. 7 Secrets From a Grilled Cheese Master (MentalFloss)
13. Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient’s Brain (Scientific American)
14. Why Foreign Investors Aren’t Buying As Much U.S. Debt (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
15. These are Amazon’s 38 rules for success (Fast Company)
16. Majority of highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders are at quant firms (Mathematical Investor)
17. 1958 Maserati 3500 GT or 1969 Lamborghini Islero 400 GT S (Thelifeofluxury.com)
18. What Is CBD Oil? (Reader’s Digest)

1. Uber reveals it has 91M users in IPO filing (New York Post)
2. Risk of earnings recession rises, as S&P 500 profits to fall for first time in 3 years MarketWatch
3. Wells Fargo’s bottom line is growing despite shrinking deposits and loans (CNN)
4. Cash Out, or Go All In: When Stocks Are Up 16% and It’s Only April (Bloomberg)
5. Hedge Funds Fretting U.S. Stock Doom Have Nimble Counter-Plan (Bloomberg)
6. Disney’s Answer To Netflix Wows Wall Street With ‘Unparalleled’ Content, Lower Price (Investor’s Business Daily)
7. CVS Wants to Fix Health Care. It’s Time to Buy the Stock. (Barron’s)
8. Great Escapes: Phnom Penh & Cambodia’s Luxurious Coast (Barron’s)
9. Maple Leafs Fans Pay Big for Slim Chance of Stanley Cup Glory (Bloomberg)
10. GM teases 2020 Chevy Corvette C8 in bid for Ferrari, McLaren luxury sports car market (MID-ENGINE) (CNBC)
11. JPMorgan Posts Record Profit, but Interest Rates Cloud Outlook (Wall Street Journal)
12. The Market Loves Tax Day (QuantifiableEdges)
13. You can now lease the Tesla Model 3, but don’t expect to buy it in the end (USA Today)
14. U.S. establishes $20.4-billion fund to bring 5G to rural America: What 5G means for you (USA Today)
15. NASA Asks SpaceX to Help It Save Earth From Incoming Asteroids (Futurism)
16. Eric Schmidt — Lessons from a Trillion-Dollar Coach (#367) (The Tim Ferriss Show)
17. Most Anticipated Earnings Releases for the week beginning April 15, 2019 (Reddit)
18. U.S. Retail Stores’ Planned Closings Already Exceed 2018 Total (New York Times)
19. The Making of Saudi Arabia’s Energetic, Ruthless Crown Prince (Wall Street Journal)
20. April’s Option Expiration Week Historically Bullish: DJIA Up 30 of Last 37 (Almanac Trader)

MarketWatch Editor/Markets Reporter – Barbara Kollmeyer (@bkollmeyer) – picked up our recent post/chart in her article today.  You can read it here: (MarketWatch)

See Barabara Kollmeyer’s other articles here: MarketWatch

1. Our Article/Chart Got Picked Up By MarketWatch Today: A correction is coming, but don’t ‘head for the hills yet’, says BNY Mellon (MarketWatch)
2. JP Morgan shares surge after bank posts record profit and revenue (CNBC)
3. Chevron to buy Anadarko Petroleum in a $33 billion cash and stock deal (CNBC)
4. Chinese exports rebound strongly in March (MarketWatch)
5. Cord-Cutters’ Savings Shrink as Online TV Services Raise Prices (Wall Street Journal)
6. Don’t Write Off Germany’s Big Bank Merger Just Yet (Bloomberg)
7. U.S. Natural-Gas Market Is Taking Cues From China  (Wall Street Journal)

1. Chipotle downgraded to Hold from Buy at Jefferies (TheFly)
2. Bull Market in “adjusted earnings” (Barron’s)
3. CEO of Tiny California Bank Makes Twice as Much as Jamie Dimon (Bloomberg)
4. Ted Cruz threatens to regulate Facebook, Google and Twitter over charges of anti-conservative bias (USA Today)
5. Oil prices pull back as IEA says demand data sending ‘mixed signals’ (MarketWatch)
6. U.S. weekly jobless claims lowest since 1969 (Reuters)

 

1. China investment, markets recovery should boost global economy later in the year, IMF says (MarketWatch)
2. Bristol-Myers, JPMorgan, and 2 Other Dividend-Paying Stocks That Could Beat the Market (Barron’s)
3. Opinion: Move over, Ferrari and Lamborghini — this Italian electric car’s 1,900 horsepower makes it faster than a Formula 1 racer (MarketWatch)
4. U.S. Readies $11 Billion in Tariffs on E.U. (New York Times)
5. 7 things you didn’t know you could do with Gmail (USA Today)
6. ECB Keeps Policy Unchanged as Euro-Area Economy Faces New Risks (Bloomberg)
7. Apple downgraded by HSBC to sell rating on concern about new services: ‘Too late to the game’ (CNBC)
8. 2019 NHL Playoffs: Stanley Cup Odds for All 16 Teams in the Postseason (Newsweek)

1. Demand for Saudi Aramco Bonds Sails Past the Goal (New York Times)
2. U.S. threatens tariffs on European wine and cheese in response to Airbus subsidies (MarketWatch)
3. Fed Moves to Ease Living Wills, Allowing Large Banks to File Wind-Down Plans Less Frequently (Wall Street Journal)
4. Potential U.S. auto tariffs would hurt Germany, Japan, Korea: Moody’s (Reuters)
5. March Small Business Optimism Stalls on Weak Outlook for Economic Growth (24/7 Wall Street)
6. 8 Levels of Financial Freedom (Forbes)
7. Daniel Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund building a stake to pressure Sony, sources say (last time George Clooney wasn’t happy about it) (Japan Times)

1. What self-made multimillionaires have in common (MarketWatch)
2. Aramco Debt Demand Reaches $30 Billion in Deal Pitched by JPMorgan CEO (Bloomberg)
3. Amazon’s Whole Foods price cuts aim to build a ‘Costco-like’ relationship with Prime members (MarketWatch)
4. Boeing faces liabilities as CEO Dennis Muilenburg acknowledges ‘apparent’ 737 Max problem (USA Today)
5. Dalio Says Capitalism’s Income Inequality Is National Emergency (Bloomberg)
6. GE shares dive after downgrade by top analyst Tusa at JP Morgan; price target cut to $5 (CNBC)
7. The price of Brexit has been £66 billion so far, plus an impending recession — and it hasn’t even started yet (Business Insider)
8. Add-On Services Emerge as Car Dealers’ Profit Generator (Wall Street Journal)
9. Bankruptcies Test One of Wall Street’s Favorite Trades (Wall Street Journal)