Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. China eases foreign investment curbs amid cooling trade tensions (Reuters)
  2. Trump crosses DMZ to meet with Kim Jong Un in North Korea (New York Post)
  3. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants: French ‘Mirazur’ At The Top (Forbes)
  4. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Daniel Loeb, Ray Dalio, Lone Pine Capital, Saba Capital Management, Kingstown Capital Management, Alphabet Inc (GOOGL), AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMAG), and a Lot More ()
  5. American Living (The Irrelevant Investor)
  6. Why a Strong Dollar Causes the World Major Pain (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  7. Mark Cuban Says These 2 Words Separate Those Who Achieve From Those Who Only Dream (Inc.)
  8. I tried being a lumberjack and it was OK (Economist)
  9. The 1 Decision That Helped Yeti Move From Cult Brand to Nearly $800 Million in Revenue (Inc.)
  10. The Rise Of American Oil (NPR)
  11. Jony Ive made the entire tech world care about design (The Verge)
  12. How Do You Follow Up ‘Old Town Road?’ If You’re Lil Nas X, You Don’t Try (Rolling Stone)
  13. Wall Street was ready for the latest twist in the trade war. Here’s how experts think Trump and Xi’s trade truce will play out. (Business Insider)
  14. What Does Putin Really Want? (New York Times)
  15. Connecticut billionaire Paul Tudor Jones wants to save Africa with new nonprofit (New York Post)

 

 

Be in the know. 14 key reads for Saturday…

  1. The RealReal Is No Pets.com and Today’s IPO Market Is Not the Next Dot-Com Bubble (Barron’s)
  2. Week in review: How Trump’s policies moved stocks (TheFly)
  3. Carnival Stock Is Headed for Smoother Sailing (Barron’s)
  4. Reset of U.S.-China Talks May Boost Risk Appetite, Analysts Say (Bloomberg)
  5. Trump says he agreed with Xi to hold off on new tariffs and to let Huawei buy US products (CNBC)
  6. Putin Says Russia and Saudi Arabia Agreed to Maintain Oil Cuts for as Long as 9 Months (Bloomberg)
  7. Small Caps Are Lagging. Investors Should Be More Concerned When They Lead (The Fat Pitch)
  8. ‘Charlie’s Angels’ official trailer shows Kristen Stewart and her co-stars getting fierce (USA Today)
  9. Heat Wave Powers Natural Gas to Best Week Since January (Wall Street Journal)
  10. The Bold Plan to Reach Mars (Men’s Journal)
  11. 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody Is World’s ‘Fastest and Most Powerful Mass-Produced Sedan’ (Maxim)
  12. Lotus to Bring 8 Renowned Race Cars and Evora GT4 Concept to the Goodwood Festival of Speed (Robb Roport)
  13. Step Inside Maria Sharapova’s Sun-Drenched L.A. Home (Architectural Digest)
  14. July’s First Trading Day—Most Bullish Day, S&P 500 has Advanced 85.7% of the Time (Almanac Trader)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Friday…

  1. Fed Stress Tests Find Top Banks Are Strong, Setting Stage for Wave of Payouts (New York Times)
  2. What you need to know about Saturday’s highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting (CNBC)
  3. G20 meeting may offer more clarity for OPEC, non-OPEC: Russia’s Novak  (Reuters)
  4. Jony Ive, Designer Who Made Apple Look Like Apple, Is Leaving to Start a Firm (New York Times)
  5. Troubled Boeing Is Still a World-Beater (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Carnival Stock Is Slumping and the CEO Is Buying Up Shares (MarketWatch)
  7. Broadcom, FedEx, and 3 Other Stocks That Could Rise on a Huawei Deal (Barron’s)

Be in the know. 7 key reads for Thursday…

  1. China urges U.S. to lift sanctions on Huawei as Trump-Xi meeting looms (Reuters)
  2. First-quarter GDP left at 3.1% as stronger business investment offsets weaker consumer spending (MarketWatch)
  3. G-20 preview: Facing faltering economies, Trump and Xi likely to agree to a cease-fire of trade war (MarketWatch)
  4. American Tariffs on China Are Being Blunted by Trade Cheats (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Trump Wants to Cut Regulations That Block New Housing (New York Times)
  6. Carl Icahn Seeks to Replace Four Occidental Directors (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Do Wall Street Price Targets on Stocks Really Matter? What Investors Need to Know. (Barron’s)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. Mnuchin: ‘We were about 90% of the way’ on China trade deal and there’s a ‘path to complete this’ (CNBC)
  2. Micron stock surges on earnings beat, improved forecast for memory-chip market (MarketWatch)
  3. How a potential case of stock-market ‘FOMO’ could trigger a ‘melt-up’ (MarketWatch)
  4. Chip stocks in broad rally after Micron beats on earnings, resumes some shipments to Huawei (MarketWatch)
  5. U.S. Set to Delay More China Tariffs Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting (Bloomberg)
  6. The 10 Most Powerful Hedge Fund Managers This Year (Worth)
  7. Boeing’s 737 MAX Has Strong Support Among Airlines (Barron’s)
  8. Trump disses Fed Chair Jerome Powell as a no-name poser (The Week)
  9. What’s So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh (Scientific American)
  10. Kraft Heinz CEO Looks to Ketchup for Sales Spurt (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Trump’s Feud With Federal Reserve Is Rooted in Presidential History (New York Times)
  2. Animal Spirits back in Biotech? AbbVie to buy Botox-maker Allergan in $63 billion deal (Reuters)
  3. China, U.S. trade officials talk ahead of Trump-Xi meeting (Reuters)
  4. Lennar’s stock surges after big profit, revenue beats (MarketWatch)
  5. Bristol-Myers’ Celgene Deal Can Still Be a Winner (Wall Street Journal)
  6. The Goldman Sachs Trump Chart That Should Scare Democrats Right Now (Barron’s)
  7. Micron Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect. (Barron’s)
  8. Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Investors Are Glum, Even With Stocks at All-Time Highs (Wall Street Journal)
  10. U.S. Oil Exports Rising Amid Middle Eastern Turmoil (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 5 key reads for Monday…

  1. Dow 30,000 Could Come Sooner Than You Think (Barron’s)
  2. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on Why the U.S. Will Avoid a Recession (Barron’s)
  3. Eviation unveils electric airplane and plans flight tests in central Washington state (GeekWire)
  4. China says both U.S., China should make compromises in trade talks (Reuters)
  5. McDonald’s started using fresh meat. Here’s what happened to sales (CNN Business)

Bonus Weekend Reads

  1. Daniel Craig Can’t Outrun His James Bond Fate (The Ringer)
  2. Ford Announces Just How Insanely Powerful the 2020 Mustang Shelby ST500 Will Be (Maxim)
  3.  ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  4. 12 Habits Of Genuine People (Forbes)
  5. Interest Rates Could Bottoming After 35% Decline, Says Joe Friday (Kimble Charting Solutions)
  6. Will it hold? (The Reformed Broker)
  7. Chris Brightman Discusses the Investment Industry (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  8. ‘My Whole Life Is a Bet.’ Inside President Trump’s Gamble on an Untested Re-Election Strategy (Time)
  9. Box Office: ‘Toy Story 4’ Flies High Friday With $47.4 Million (Variety)
  10. Pain Trade By Locals and Prop Groups In Eurodollar Options (Futures Mag)
  11. How I Built This: Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger (NPR)
  12. Trump Says Didn’t Threaten to Demote Fed’s Powell But Has Right (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 8 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Trump says US will impose ‘major additional sanctions’ against Iran on Monday (CNBC)
  2. Billionaire Leon Cooperman Interview –“We Live in Abnormal Times”, But The Stock Market Is Still In Its “Zone of Fair Value” (Insider Monkey)
  3. U.S. Existing-Home Sales Rose in May (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Sunday Strategist: This $200,000 Grill Is a Masterpiece of Arbitrage (Bloomberg)
  5. An Extreme In Investor Fear And Pessimism (The Fat Pitch)
  6. Before Iran Shot It Down, the US’s $130M Drone Spied on the World (Futurism)
  7. Hedge Funds Hold Out Hope for Kiwi Even as Second Rate Cut Looms (Bloomberg)
  8. The No. 1 most reliable appliance brand in America, according to Consumer Reports (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Opinion: Believing all this talk about a stock market bubble can land you in real trouble (MarketWatch)
  2. OPEC readies for ‘critical’ meeting, decision on oil output cuts (MarketWatch)
  3. Fed officials face weak inflation, but split over what it means (Reuters)
  4. Soybeans Could Be Next Market to Surge as U.S. Showers Drag On (Bloomberg)
  5. Kashkari Says He Wanted Half-Point Rate Cut at Fed Meeting (Bloomberg)
  6. Star Athletes Become Trophies Banks Covet as Salaries Skyrocket (Bloomberg)
  7. The ECB Is Talking Stimulus Again. Is It Bluffing? (Barron’s)
  8. Big Banks Ace First Round of Federal Reserve’s Stress Tests (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Taylor Swift’s Real-Estate Portfolio, Revisited (Architectural Digest)
  10. Japanese Security Companies Benefit From U.S.’s China Concerns (Wall Street Journal)