Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. Germany’s economy is flashing yet another ‘grim’ warning after more weak data and a slump in demand (Business Insider)
2. American Express First-Quarter Profit Falls 5 Percent (US News and World Report)
3. Honeywell raises FY19 EPS view to $7.90-$8.15 from $7.80-$8.10, consensus $7.98 (TheFly)
4. North Korea calls for Pompeo to be dropped from talks; tests tactical weapon (Yahoo)
5. Bridgewater warns of lower US stock prices (Economic Times)

 

1. Apple and Qualcomm settled their legal battle. Here’s what Wall Street analysts are saying (CNBC)
2. Powell Adopts an Inflation Stance Yellen Shunned (Bloomberg)
3. Jefferies Analysts Love 5 Stocks That Other Wall Street Firms Hate (24/7 Wall Street)
4. China Trade Settlement Could Be Huge for Steel Stocks: 4 to Buy (24/7 Wall Street
5. CVS CEO Larry Merlo on the Aetna Deal and the Future of Health Care (Barron’s)
6. Activist Investing Is Alive and Well. Here Is a Look at 3 Fresh Ideas. (Barron’s)
7. China’s strong data sparks major stock rally with economic stimulus ‘bearing fruit’ (Business Insider)

 

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)

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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)