Category: What I’m Reading Today

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)

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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)

1. This Smart Fishing Reel Messages Your Phone When You’ve Got a Bite (Maxim)
2. Why Goldman Sachs Is So Bullish on Disney After the Fox Acquisition (24/7 Wall Street)
3. Boeing to Decrease 737 Max Production Starting in April (TheStreet)
4. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: WLI Bouncing Back (Advisor Perspectives)
5. You Could Have Today. Instead You Choose Tomorrow (Medium)
6. 5G is still just hype for AT&T and Verizon (The Verge)
7. The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking (Manhattan Institute)
8. Episode 904: Joke Theft (NPR Planet Money)
9. 5 of Albert Einstein’s favorite books (Big Think)
10. The Austerity Chronicles (Kenneth Rogoff) (Project Syndicate)
11. How to Get What You Want (The Irrelevant Investor)
12. Elon Musk and Netflix Both Use This Ancient Mental Strategy and It’s Pure Genius (Inc)
13. The stock is down 91% since August. But Maiden Holdings insiders just bought at $0.78. (Whale Wisdom)
14. Ferrari P80/C – The Most Epic Supercar from the Maranello manufacturer (Luxuo)
15. Driving the Porsche GT3 RS and GT2 RS, the New Quickest Production Cars (Popular Mechanics)
16. Adam Sandler to Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ for the First Time (Variety)
17. Risk Assets Have Front-Run Reality (w/ Tian Yang) | Expert View (RealVision)
18. Wall Street prepares to profit off looming global credit crunch (New York Post)
19. Here’s a presidential secret all stock investors need to know (USA Today)
20. New NAFTA deal ‘in trouble’, bruised by elections, tariff rows (Reuters)

 

1. Low Volume At Highs Does Not Provide The Short-Term Bearish Edge It Once Did (QuantifiableEdges)
2. Michael Lewis Discusses the Culture of Finance (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
3. The Intersection: Crypto and Wall Street This Week ()
4. The Only Thing Going Right for Tech Companies Is the Stock Market (Bloomberg)
5. Hedge Funds Just Posted Their Best Quarter Since 2009 (Bloomberg)
6. ‘Corporate America Had Better Take Note.’ Fund Managers Are the New Activist Investors (Barron’s)
7. The Great Sriracha Battle Is Coming to America (Bloomberg)
8. Traders are waging a nearly $1 billion bet against Lyft and still have lots of ‘dry powder’ (LYFT) (Business Insider)
9. Big banks to report first quarter results with lowered expectations (Reuters)
10. A Rare Peek into the World’s Most Valuable Company (Equities)
11. Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager Warns a “Revolution” Is Coming (Vanity Fair)
12. “The Mice Became Smarter”: New Treatment Restores Aging Brains (Futurism)
13. The Machines That Will Read Your Mind (Wall Street Journal)
14. How Successful People Handle Toxic People (Forbes)
15. The Bespoke Report — Second Quarter Chart Checkup (Bespoke)
16. What is Amazon? (Zack’s notes)
17. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Ken Griffin, Dmitry Balyasny, Ray Dalio, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA), RumbleON Inc (RMBL), and More (Insider Monkey)
18. This Fund Expects To Triple Its Money On GSE Preferred Shares (ValueWalk)
19. When Will Gene Editing Help Humans? This Investor Says It’s Already Happening (Fortune)
20. EIA Oil Inventory Analysis (EconMatters)