Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. Analysts expect China to cut bank reserve ratios soon (Reuters)
2. Four solid stocks whose recent hard times mean they’re potential bargains (MarketWatch)
3. Walgreens shares slide as drugstore chain misses earnings estimates, lowers 2019 forecast (CNBC)
4. DealBook Briefing: Lyft Crashes Back to Reality (New York Times)
5. U.S. and Chinese Manufacturing Stabilize, While Europe Lags Behind (Wall Street Journal)
6. 50 Cent Sells Massive Connecticut Compound for 84% Less (i.e. 16 Cent) (Wall Street Journal)

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1. Hold Tight to Value Stocks. They May Be Set to Rise Soon. (Barron’s)
2. U.S. Retail Sales Unexpectedly Fall; Prior Reading Revised Up (Bloomberg)
3. 6 things successful people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos do on weekends to make their Mondays more productive (CNBC)
4. China Purchases Could Undercut Trump’s Larger Trade Goal (New York Times)
5. Things are suddenly looking a lot brighter for China’s manufacturing sector (Business Insider)
6. ‘Fear of Missing Out’ Pushes Investors Toward Stocks (Wall Street Journal)
7. Tesla, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk releases rap song: ‘RIP Harambe’ (USA Today)
8. Costco Stock Is Trading Near a Record, and One Director Has Been Selling (Barron’s)
9. The 5G Network Rollout And The 4th Industrial Revolution (Investor’s Business Daily)
10. Private equity tricks mask mounting debt: ‘I’m 5 foot 8 inches, but I change the scale and make myself 6 foot 2 inches on a pro forma basis’ (Business Insider)

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1. The ETF Tax Dodge Is Wall Street’s “Dirty Little Secret” (Bloomberg)
2. Artificial Intelligence Stocks To Buy And Watch Amid Rising AI Competition (Investor’s Business Daily)
3. How the Dow Spinoff Could Unlock Value and Offer a Rich Dividend (Barron’s)
4. Fed’s Quarles says more rate hikes could be ahead ‘at some point’ as economy improves (CNBC)
5. The U.S. Military Is Hiring Palantir to Build Battlefield AI (Futurism)
6. The Mueller report will be released to the public by mid-April (VOX)
7. How Neurofeedback Is Revolutionizing Stress Management (Medium)
8. A small child tried to fight Gritty (Mashable)
9. What “Machiavellian” really means (Ted Talk)
10. An Indicator In The Hand (NPR Planet Money)
11. In the face of adversity, are you a Guernsey or a Brahman? (Farnam street)
12. Theresa May’s Third Brexit Loss Closes More Doors (The New Yorker)
13. The Trumpification of the Fed (Vanity Fair)
14. George Dantzig: The real Will Hunting (Big Think)
15. Military Tries Out Fish as Underwater Spies (Scientific American)
16. Just say no? (The Irrelevant Investor)
17. Why An MMT Advocate Became One of Its Loudest Critics (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
18. Notable Investors Dump Micron on Bleak Outlook (Whale Wisdom)
19. Even hedge funds investing in Lyft don’t believe in its long-term prospects (recode)
20. 13 Strangest Unsolved Mysteries of the Art World (Reader’s Digest)

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1. Goldman Sachs Has 5 Top Energy Stocks to Buy With Huge Implied Upside24/7 Wall Street)
2. Joshua Miller Discusses the Hot Hand Phenomenon (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
3. Boston Dynamics’ New Warehouse Robot Threatens Millions Of Jobs (ZeroHedge)
4. A Magician Explains Why We See What’s Not There (Nautilus)
5. Hedge Funds Are ‘Impotent’ as Activists (Institutional Investor)
6. Netflix: There’s Never Been a Riskier Time to Invest Than Now (TheStreet)
7. Is DJIA-NASDAQ Monthly Divergence Bearish or Bullish? (Almanac Trader)
8. White House Pushes Fed to Cut Interest Rates (Wall Street Journal)
9. U.S. Trade Negotiators Take Aim at China’s Cybersecurity Law (Wall Street Journal)
10. The Real Reason Porsche Ignitions Are Left of the Wheel (Wall Street Journal)
11. 5 Ways To Be A More Positive Person (Forbes)
12. Hedge Funds Have Never Been This Bullish On UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) (Insider Monkey)
13. Here Are the 27 Restaurants in France Rated Three Stars by Michelin (Robb Report)
14. How a Google side project evolved into a $4B company (Tech Crunch)
15. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: “GDP Data Tells You Nothing About Recession Risk” (Advisor Perspectives)
16. Fundamental Analysis of the Oil Market (EconMatters)
17. The Tiger and the Tragic Trick: Siegfried & Roy’s Animal Handler Breaks Silence on Mauling, Alleges Cover-Up (Hollywood Reporter)
18. How This Billionaire Luxury Magnate Became One of the World’s Richest Men (Maxim)
19. Week in review: How Trump’s policies moved stocks (TheFly)
20. Global Bond-Market Investors Are Getting Really Nervous (Bloomberg)

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1. Lyft, Inc. (LYFT) Prices 32.5M Share IPO at $72/Sh (Street Insider)
2. U.S., China hold ‘constructive’ trade talks in Beijing (Reuters)
3. Buffett on the economy: ‘It looks like things have slowed down’ (CNBC)
4. The 5G Network Rollout And The 4th Industrial Revolution (Investor’s Business Daily)
5. Buy Disney Stock Before Its Investor Day, Says Analyst (Barron’s)
6. U.S. Consumer Spending Misses Forecasts as Inflation Eases (Bloomberg)
7. The 4% Mortgage Is Back (Wall Street Journal)

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1. Tim Knight takes a technical view with “Downtrend Intact” (Slope of Hope)
2. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Bodenholm Capital, Regal Funds Management, Nexstar Media Group Inc (NXST), Denbury Resources Inc. (DNR), and More (Insider Monkey)
3. Boeing Will Recover (Bloomberg)
4. Exclusive: China makes unprecedented proposals on tech, trade talks progress – U.S. officials (Reuters)
5. Bond yields on the canvas, Turkey’s lira on the ropes (StreetInsider)
6. Why Pfizer May Soon Make Up Lost Ground in Underperforming Against Merck (24/7 Wall St.)
7. Mystery Trader Bets Huge That Market Is Wrong On Fed Rate-Cuts (ZeroHedge)
8. Pimco and BlackRock Have a Contrarian Bet on Inflation (Bloomberg)
9. 19th-Century ‘Humiliation’ Haunts China-U.S. Trade Talks (New York Times)
10. U.S. LNG Tipped To Go Global On Abundant Supplies (Forbes)

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1. Likely Fed nominee Stephen Moore thinks rates should be cut by half a percentage point (CNBC)
2. Turkey On Verge Of Collapse As Overnight Swaps Hit 700%, CDS Soar (ZeroHedge)
3. One Way Stocks Go Up Is if Wall Street Sets the Earnings Bar Really, Really Low (Barron’s)
4. Here’s Why U.S. Bond Yields Plunged So Much Over the Past Week (Bloomberg)
5. US efforts to cut trade deficit show biggest win in almost a year (CNBC)
6. Lennar, KB Home Earnings Boosted by Falling Mortgage Rates (Bloomberg)
7. Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcoa, Apple, Autodesk, BB&T, Bed Bath & Beyond, Camping World, Nvidia, Vertex, Voya and More (24/7 Wall Street)
8. Neiman Marcus, in Debt Talks, Makes It Easier to Bet It Will Fail (Wall Street Journal)

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1. Home prices in January see smallest gain in nearly 4 years: S&P Case-Shiller (CNBC)
2. US auto sales are falling, and cars are more expensive than ever (CNBC)
3. Housing starts drop 9% in February and show little sign of perking up (MarketWatch)
4. Pentagon authorizes $1 billion for Trump’s border wall (MarketWatch)
5. Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcoa, Apple, Autodesk, BB&T, Bed Bath & Beyond, Camping World, Nvidia, Vertex, Voya and More (24/7 Wall Street)
6. World of Negative Debt Expands to One-Fifth of Global Market (Bloomberg)
7. Hedge Funds Boost Shorts as Gains in March Reward Caution (Bloomberg)

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1. Survey shows German business mood brightening (MarketWatch)
2. Yields Below Zero Spell Trouble for Hedge Funds (Bloomberg)
3. Mueller finds no Trump collusion with Russia (Business Insider)
4. Theresa May’s future in doubt as MPs prepare to seize control of Brexit (Business Insider)
5. Companies all across America are warning business is slowing down (Business Insider)
6. Trump push for China trade reform draws wide support at home, abroad (Reuters)
7. JPMorgan: “A Bad Omen For Risky Markets Is Resurfacing” (ZeroHedge)

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1. Goldman Just Put On The Next “Big Short” Trade (ZeroHedge)
2. Don’t Panic Over Inverted Yield Curve; Here’s The Key Chart For Dow Jones (Investor’s Business Daily)
3. THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD (Forbes)
4. How to take the ‘outside view’ (McKinsey & Company)
5. The Risk of Low Growth Stocks Part 2: Prestige Brands Case Study (Intrinsic Investing)
6. How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream (The Atlantic)
7. Was Starboard Value’s Jeffrey Smith Wrong about Newell Brands (NWL)? (Insider Monkey)
8. Roger Ibbotson Discusses the History of Finance (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
9. Film Review: ‘The Dirt’- A Mötley Crüe biopic on Netflix (Variety)
10. Why Your Next Cocktail Will Be Premixed (Fortune)
11. This 150-Day Dry Aged Beef Burger Shows How the Luxury Hamburger Has Simplified (Robb Report)
12. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update: All Measures Up Again (Advisor Perspectives)
13. Formula 1 is putting data in the driver’s seat, and not all racers are happy (Digital Trends)
14. Yes, It’s All Your Fault: Active vs. Passive Mindsets (Farnam Street)
15. Money-losing companies that went public in 2018 did better than profitable ones (recode)
16. The Complex Fortune Growing Inside World’s Most Valuable Startup (Bloomberg)
17. Richard Branson calls for new Brexit vote (BBC)

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