Category: What I’m Reading Today

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)

1. US adds 196,000 jobs as unemployment rate remains lowest in decades (NY Post)
2. Josh Brown: How I explain the stock market vs the economy (CNBC)
3. Snapchat launches new gaming platform (USA Today)
4. China Hails ‘New Consensus’ on Trade as Trump Talks Up Unfinished Deal (Bloomberg)
5. Biotech crops among sticking points in U.S.-China trade deal: sources (Reuters)
6. Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America, and we need to take 5 specific actions to save it (Business Insider)
7. Intel downgraded by Wells Fargo on weak 2019 demand and increased AMD competition (CNBC)

1. German manufacturing orders collapsed in February (MarketWatch)
2. What to Watch in Friday’s Jobs Report (Barron’s)
3. Tesla Deliveries Fall, in Potential Sign of Weaker U.S. Demand (Bloomberg)
4. Global stocks stall after Trump’s tariffs block US-China trade deal progress (Business Insider)
5. Jamie Dimon’s annual letter is out (JP Morgan)
6. Accounting Rule Maker FASB Rejects Proposal on Loan Losses (Wall Street Journal)
7. Morgan Stanley downgrades trader favorite Micron to sell, says inventories will pressure margins (CNBC)

1. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Ken Griffin, Keith Meister, Bodenholm Capital, AQR Capital, Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. (ANH), Oasis Petroleum Inc. (OAS), and More (Insider Monkey)
2. Weekly mortgage refinances spike 39% after huge rate drop (CNBC)
3. Private payrolls add 129K in March vs. 173K est.: ADP/Moody’s Analytics (CNBC)
4. Deutsche Bank downgrades Caterpillar ahead of negative backlog growth (TheFly)
5. US Auto Sales Wrap Up Weak First Quarter (ZeroHedge)
6. Boeing Keeps Leaving Trash In New Air Force Tankers; Deliveries Halted Again (Investor’s Business Daily)
7. Bitcoin Rises 16%, Touching $5,000 in Asia ()
8. If Trump closes Mexican border, avocados could cost more and auto factories could shut (USA 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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