Category: What I’m Reading Today

1. U.S., China Close In on Trade Deal (Wall Street Journal)
2. Elon Musk, Tesla to unveil next vehicle, the Model Y crossover, on March 14 (USA Today)
3. The US just officially hit the debt ceiling (Business Insider)
4. Boeing could bring the Dow to a hard landing (MarketWatch)
5. Strange Bedfellows: Office Depot and Alibaba team up to tap small and medium businesses (Reuters)
6. Billionaires Are On the Hunt for New Underground Cobalt (Bloomberg)
7. 5 Stocks to Buy Now That Low-Turnover Hedge Funds Love (24/7 Wall Street)
8. The Bomb That Blew Up in 2008? We’re Planting Another One (Bloomberg)
9. Kinder Morgan Co-Founder Is on a Stock-Buying Spree (Barron’s)
10. Ray Dalio (Bridgewater) financing amazing underwater discoveries (YouTube)

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1. The Most Underrated And Unappreciated Superpower That Successful People Possess (Forbes)
2. Activist Investor Elliott Takes Majority Control of Troubled Trucker Roadrunner (Wall Street Journal)
3. Look “under the hood” of Hedge Fund “Trade Tips”® service with our new (short) webinar (YouTube)
4. Howard Marks LIVE (Replay) with Barry Ritholtz (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
5. Why You Should Think Twice About ‘Free’ Funds (Wall Street Journal)
6. Ferrari F8 Tributo: Ferrari’s Latest Mid-Engine V8 Supercar Will Remain The Benchmark (Forbes)
7. Canada approves Huawei extradition proceedings, China seethes (Reuters)
8. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Steve Eisman, Carl Icahn, Voce Capital, New Residential Investment Corp (NRZ), ImmunoGen, Inc. (IMGN), and More (InsiderMonkey)
9. Boeing Just Revealed the ‘Loyal Wingman’ Fighter Drone—For Australia (The Daily Beast)
10. Nevis Is a Zen Paradise—and One of the Best Undiscovered Caribbean Islands (Men’s Journal)
11. The Upsetting Real Story Behind The Afghan Girl National Geographic Cover (digg)
12. The recent spike in tensions between India and Pakistan, explained (VOX)
13. A Guide to Using Sauna to Increase Your Health and Longevity (Medium)
14. The Perfect Pair of Pants Is Just a 3D Body Scan Away (Wired)
15. Bill Gates: A Billion Dollars Won’t Make You Happy, but This Will (Inc.)
16. Reading One Book a Week Won’t Make You Successful (Entrepreneur)
17. Justin Trudeau Faces His Most Explosive Crisis Yet (Time)
18. Baker Hughes: US rig count down 9 units for the week (Oil & Gas Journal)
19. TRUMP: THE FIRST MMT PRESIDENT (The Macro Tourist)
20. The End of Economics? ()
21. Trump says strong dollar hurting U.S. competitiveness (Reuters)

 

 

 

1. See our latest thoughts in MarketWatch article, “How bullish investors could steer this stock-market run right off the road” (MarketWatch)
2. See our latest article on ZeroHedge, “Earnings Estimates DOWN, Price UP. What’s NEXT?” (ZeroHedge)
3. ISM manufacturing index hits lowest level since November 2016 (CNBC)
4. Dudley says Fed might not be done raising interest rates this year (MarketWatch)
5. Consumer spending posts biggest drop since 2009, but decline may be exaggerated (MarketWatch)
6. Why Big Pharma Is Diving Into Gene Therapy ()
7. Amazon reportedly plans to launch new grocery chain (New York Post)
8. In This Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180,000 (Wall Street Journal)
9. More Americans Are Back at Work Making Stuff (Wall Street Journal)
10. 2020 McLaren 600LT Spider: The ‘Attainable’ Supercar (Wall Street Journal)
11. The Bill Gross You Didn’t Know: Taxes, Deficits and Asperger’s (Bloomberg)
12. Tesla’s $35,000 Model 3 is coming – here’s what Wall Street is saying (Business Insider)
13. SpaceX launches Crew Dragon capsule to the space station in milestone test for NASA astronauts (CNBC)
14. Week in review: How Trump’s policies moved stocks (TheFly)
15. Warren Buffett Bets Big On StoneCo — Why This Profitable IPO Stock Should Be On Your Radar (Investor’s Business Daily)
16. Southwest Airlines Sues Mechanics in Labor Dispute (New York Times)
17. The Extreme Persistence Of The Current SPX Rally (QuantifiableEdges)
18. North America Put More Robots to Work in 2018 Than Ever Before (Futurism)
19. Goldman Sachs Newest Favorite Stocks for Serious Upside in 2019 (24/7 Wall Street)
20. US Auto Sales Tumble To 18 Month Low As SUV Demand Hits A Brick Wall (ZeroHedge)

 

1. One of Wall Street’s Most Popular Trading Strategies Is Now Failing (Bloomberg)
2. Trade of the Day: Boeing Stock Hits Record Overbought Level (Yahoo)
3. Trump warns he could abandon China trade deal as advisers tout progress (Reuters)
4. Tesla stock soft after Elon Musk warns it won’t be profitable in Q1 (Business Insider)
5. Tesla announces long-promised $35,000 Model 3 (USA Today)
6. These two charts suggest the rally could go from good to bad in the short term (CNBC)
7. Uber and Lyft Said to Offer Drivers a Chance to Participate in I.P.O.s (New York Times)
8. Mattel Insiders Are Buying Up the Toy Maker’s Stock (Barron’s)
9. Gap to Split Into Two Public Companies (Wall Street Journal)
10. David Einhorn, hedge-fund manager says he will make fewer, bigger bets (Wall Street Journal)

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1. “Sometimes You Have To Walk”: Hanoi Summit Ends In Disarray As Trump Balks At Kim Demands For Sanctions Relief (Zero Hedge)
2. Never Before Has the Fate of Hedge Funds Turned on So Few Stocks (Bloomberg)
3. KKR, After Nailing the Rally in Stocks, Says It’s Time to Lighten Up (Bloomberg)
4. Auto loan delinquencies rise as the cost of monthly payments hit record high (CNBC)
5. U.S. trade chief sees long-term China challenges, continued tariff threat (Reuters)
6. A Stock-Market Forecasting Tool That Actually Works (MarketWatch)
7. U.S. Marijuana Retailer MedMen Burns Cash as Sales Grow (Barron’s)
8. Dalio Says Fed Pivot Means He’s Less Worried About Recession (Bloomberg)

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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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