Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. Hedge-Fund Veteran Who Won Big on Volatility Is Back in the Game: (Bloomberg)
2. Home Depot shares fall on earnings miss, as retailer sees 2019 sales slowing (CNBC)
3. How Florida Georgia Line Built a Country Music Empire (USA Today)
4. Crispr Infuses First Human in Landmark Gene-Editing Study (Bloomberg)
5. Wayfair’s 78% Surge Hits Short Sellers With $1 Billion in Losses (Bloomberg)
6. Risky U.S. Loan Markets Lean Too Much on Japan (Wall Street Journal)
7. The Next LTCM? $8 Billion Hedge Fund Is Using 10x Leverage (Zero Hedge)

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1. How to Identify a Bear Market Rally (Bloomberg)
2. Trump to Delay Tariff Increases on Chinese Imports (Wall Street Journal)
3. General Electric (GE) to Sell BioPharma Business to Danaher (DHR) for $21.4 Billion ()
4. Frackers Face Harsh Reality as Wall Street Backs Away (Wall Street Journal)
5. The Key to a Longer Life: Exercise More (U.S. News)
6. Lady Gaga Epitomizes This Soft Skill–Here’s How To Tell If You Lack It, And How To Quickly Get It (Forbes)
7. Hedge funds hold smallest slice of stock market since 2012 (MarketWatch)

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1. The $3Trillion Impact: (Slope of Hope)
2. (100% Recent Accuracy) Is Healthcare about to get Sick? (Zero Hedge)
3. 9 takeaways from Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (USA Today)
4. 4Q Corporate Results: Margins Fall. A Watch Out for 2019 (The Fat Pitch)
5. How Wolfgang Puck Came to Throw the Oscars Party That Every A-Lister Wants to Go To (Robb Report)
6. A Sneak Peek at the Oscars 2019 Set Design (Architectural Digest)
7. Margin Debt and the Market: Up 2.55% MoM (Advisor Perspectives)
8. 8 podcasts advisers listen to when they aren’t working (Investment News)
9. How to win an Oscar (Vox)
10. Forget Galaxy Fold: 5G and foldable phones go big at MWC 2019 (CNET)
11. What to Expect at the Second North Korea Summit (Foreign Affairs)
12. What if all US health care costs were transparent? (Ted)
13. Antitrust 3: Big Tech (NPR Planet Money)
14. CRISPR-edited babies born in China may have enhanced brain functions (Big Think)
15. Can Trump Make a Deal with China? (Project Syndicate)
16. How To Analyze An IPO (Podcast) (Bloomberg Odd Lots)
17. Here’s How the Entrepreneur Behind Carvana Got the Idea That’s Revolutionizing the Way We Buy Cars (Entrepreneur)
18. Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old? (Smithsonian)
19. Three Favorite MLPs for an Energy Boom (Money Show)
20. Should Stock Buybacks Be Banned? (Yardeni)

 

1. Our (Hedge Fund Tips) article featured on ZeroHedge.com: Imminent Accounting Change Rhymes with 2007-2009 – $3 Trillion Impact… (Zero Hedge)
2. Week in review: How Trump’s policies moved stocks: (The Fly)
3. Who Are 2019’s Best Online Brokers? (Barron’s)
4. Wall Street Has It Wrong. You’re a Smart Investor. (Wall Street Journal)
5. A recession signal with a multi-decade track record is cropping up again, and it has Wall Street on standby for the next crisis (Business Insider)
6. 25 Billion Quarterly Loss for Berkshire Hathaway as Buffett Abandons Book Value Focus: (24/7 Wall Street)
7. Fed Considers Letting Inflation Run Hot, Vice Chair Clarida Says (TheStreet)
8. The greatest investor you’ve never heard of.  An optometrist who beat the odds to become a billionaire (Forbes)
9. The Bespoke Report — Equities Still Truckin’ (Bespoke)
10. The Big Short’s Michael Burry Reveals His Latest Stock Picks for the First Time Since 2016 (Insider Monkey)

1. Closely watched Atlanta Fed GDP model now sees growth at just 1.4 percent for fourth quarter (CNBC)
2. Quantum Computing Companies Aim To Go Where No Computer Has Gone Before (Investor’s Business Daily)
3. U.S., China haggle over toughest issues in trade war talks (Reuters)
4. Pimco: The ‘sugar rush’ is almost over, so it’s time to ‘de-risk’ and raise cash (MarketWatch)
5. Natural Gas Price Rises on Another Big Storage Drawdown (24/7 Wall Street)
6. Kraft Heinz discloses SEC probe, $15 billion write-down; shares dive 20 percent (Reuters)
7. A currency war would be one-sided if US/China trade dispute escalates (HedgeWeek)

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1. Fed Prepares to End Balance-Sheet Runoff Later This Year (Wall Street Journal)
2. Trump Continues to Weigh EU Auto Tariffs (Wall Street Journal)
3. Wall Street, Seeking Big Tax Breaks, Sets Sights on Distressed Main Streets (New York Times)
4. Why the $9 Trillion Stock Rally Is Beginning to Look Tired (Bloomberg)
5. EU’s Juncker ‘not very optimistic’ on Brexit deal after meeting with UK leader May (CNBC)
6. US and China are sketching the outlines of a deal to end the trade war (CNBC)
7. BAML: Investors are freaking out about the rising prospect of a global recession (Business Insider)
8. A $3-trillion tsunami is about to flood the stock market, warns fund manager (MarketWatch)
9. Stock Buybacks Are on Track for Another Record Year (MarketWatch)

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1. Fed Minutes to Shed Light on Biggest Policy Reversal in Years (Bloomberg)
2. New US tariffs on Chinese goods will be ‘catastrophic’ for global stocks: China media (CNBC)
3. Japan’s exports fall most in two years as China shipments weaken (Reuters)
4. DealBook Briefing: The Big Problems Facing the Trade Talks (New York Times)
5. Tesla is preparing to offer Model 3 leasing to boost demand (Electrek)
6. How Wealthy Parents Can Raise Responsible, Grounded Kids (Barron’s)
7. SEC Wants to Make It Easier for Companies to Explore IPOs (Wall Street Journal)
8. Bill Gates and Elon Musk Agree This Is the Secret to Remembering More of What You Read (Inc.)

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1. Negative Yields Mount Along With Europe’s Problems (Wall Street Journal)
2. Elizabeth Warren Wants a Wealth Tax. How Would That Even Work? (New York Times)
3. New report details Apple’s 2019 hardware plans (USA Today)
4. $1 Trillion Rally in European Stocks Looks in Danger to Analysts (Bloomberg)
5. China trade deal ‘fails’ if Washington doesn’t win enforcement measures (CNBC)
6. HSBC misses profit, blames Brexit, trade tensions (MarketWatch)
7. Key Investors Are Unhappy With SoftBank Tech-Investment Fund (Wall Street Journal)
8. David Tepper Buys 3, Boosts 3 in 4th Quarter (Guru Focus)

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1. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: All Measures Down WoW (Advisor Perspectives)
2. Warren Buffett’s Top Stocks for 2019 (24/7 Wall Street)
3. Watch genetically modified T-cells kill cancer cells (CNET)
4. Cookie Monster held an AMA on Reddit, and it’s so pure you may cry (Mashable)
5. What Does “National Emergency” Actually Mean? (NPR Planet Money)
6. 45 Amazing Facts About All 44 American Presidents (Mental Floss)
7. Run Down the Brexit Clock (Project Syndicate)
8. Tech Stock Bubbles In the 17th Century (Podcast) (Bloomberg Odd Lots)
9. Charlie Munger: U.S. Rich-Poor Gap Will Bridge Itself (Real Investment Advice)
10. 3 Things You Can Learn From the Most-Watched TED Talk of All Time (Inc.)
11. Next James Bond Movie and ‘Fast 9’ Shift 2020 Release Dates (Hollywood Reporter)
12. 25 Ways to Live Longer (Worth)
13. 28 Brain Games Guaranteed to Boost Your Brain Power (Reader’s Digest)
14. Decoding Blockchain: Opportunities for Businesses (JP Morgan)

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1. A big change in accounting will put $3 trillion in liabilities on corporate balance sheets (CNBC)
2. The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup (Wired)
3. Baupost Capital 2018 Q4 Investor Letter (Insider Monkey)
4. Top 10 Greatest Mathematicians Of All Time: Check Them Out (Value Walk)
5. The Endless Ping-Pong of U.S.-China Trade Talks (Fortune)
6. Here Are the 27 Restaurants in France Rated Three Stars by Michelin (Robb Report)
7. Is This the Most Star-Studded Block in New York City? (Architectural Digest)
8. ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Curb’ and ‘Borat’ All Led to ‘Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy’ (Daily Beast)
9. Runner Who Killed Mountain Lion Describes His Intense ‘Wrestling Match’ Encounter (Men’s Journal)
10. Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time (Medium)
11. Twitter May Be Holding On to DMs Long After You Think They’re ‘Deleted’ (Gizmodo)

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