- Dealmaking Is Looking Up as Companies Stop Waiting Out the Fed (wsj)
- ASML Orders Plunge as Chipmakers Pause High-End Gear Purchases (bloomberg)
- Serious investors need China exposure, should ‘forget about the short-term pain’, asset managers say (scmp)
- Fed’s Beige Book Holds Clues to Predicting Downturn, Study Shows (bloomberg)
- The stock market just flashed bullish a signal suggesting 19% upside by August 2025, BofA says (business)
- Fund managers are giving up on bonds in a way they haven’t in 20 years (marketwatch)
- Do cash-gushing stocks outperform the S&P 500? Here’s what history has to say. (marketwatch)
- Consumer spending has slowed but is hanging in there, says BofA CEO Brian Moynihan (cnbc)
- Oakmark’s Bill Nygren shares his thoughts on CITI (cnbc)
- Bonds are a good diversifier for risk assets over most cycles: Steve Laipply (foxbusiness)
- China warns west of ‘survival of the fittest’ as manufacturing boosts economy (ft)
- Powell Dials Back Expectations on Rate Cuts (wsj)
- Rents have finally stopped skyrocketing. (marketwatch)
- Boeing Defends Safety of 787 Dreamliner After Whistle-Blower’s Claims (nytimes)
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Be in the know. 13 key reads for Tuesday…
- China Q1 GDP grows 5.3%, more than expected (streetinsider)
- How Legatum Succeeds at Generating Capital, Ideas, and Helping People Prosper (barrons)
- Bank of America tops estimates on better-than-expected interest income, investment banking (cnbc)
- BofA Beats Estimates for Trading and Profit Even as Costs Soar (bloomberg)
- China’s Economy, Propelled by Its Factories, Grew More Than Expected (nytimes)
- China’s Rising Youth Unemployment Needs Attention, Official Says (bloomberg)
- Alibaba strengthens commitment to open-source development of AI model (scmp)
- European bank stocks are a better bet than U.S. peers, says JPMorgan (marketwatch)
- What If Fed Rate Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom? (bloomberg)
- Why the Dollar Is Causing Chaos in Emerging Markets (bloomberg)
- New York Tops Destinations for Relocating Tech Workers (wsj)
- Boeing defends 787 Dreamliner safety after whistleblower allegations (cnbc)
- Stock-market pullbacks are price of admission. Historically, markets rise afterwards, this strategist says. (marketwatch)
Be in the know. 52 key reads for Monday…
- The Best Chinese Stocks to Buy (morningstar)
- Alibaba News Roundup: Alipay Sees Inbound Payment Surge; Hong Kong Consumers Score Festive Deals at Freshippo; Alibaba Cloud AI Assistant Helps Write Code (alizila)
- Chinese Stocks Advance as Beijing Renews Regulatory Support (bloomberg)
- Wharton legend Jeremy Siegel sees Tesla’s fall from grace in Wall Street’s ‘Magnificent 7’ as a sign of good market health (yahoo)
- Rory McIlroy is close to joining LIV Golf for a whopping $850,000,000 according to reports (sportskeeda)
- Want to play Augusta National? Here are 10 ways to get a tee time (golf)
- Boeing’s CEO search has a new front-runner—and insiders say it could mean a radical change for the $104 billion ailing planemaker (yahoo)
- Masters 2024: The clubs Scottie Scheffler used to win at Augusta National (golfdigest)
- Energy grid faces demand strains from AI, EVs: Generac CEO (yahoo)
- Retail sales rose sharply in the first quarter — and could boost U.S. GDP (marketwatch)
- Wall Street Powers Goldman to Higher Quarterly Earnings (wsj)
- What Higher for Longer Means for the Stock Market (wsj)
- Inside the Controversial Bid to Buy the Studio Behind The Godfather and Top Gun: Maverick (vanityfair)
- The United States exported a record volume of natural gas in 2023 (eia)
- To Answer the Question of Why I Invest in China (Ray Dalio)
- JP Morgan Annual Letter (Jamie Dimon)
- 4 Undervalued Stocks That Just Raised Dividends (morningstar)
- The Best Technology Stocks to Buy (morningstar)
- Citigroup Earnings: Laser Focus on Expenses Needed to Achieve Long-Term Targets (morningstar)
- 3 Cheap Stocks to Watch in the Fight Over Sports Streaming (morningstar)
- The Crazy Swing That Made Scottie Scheffler a Two-Time Masters Champion (wsj)
- Here’s What Higher for Longer Means for the Stock Market (wsj)
- The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ (wsj)
- Steve Mnuchin seeks AI partner to rebuild TikTok’s algorithm in takeover bid: sources (nypost)
- Iran’s Attack on Israel Sparks Race to Avert a Full-Blown War (bloomberg)
- Why Car Insurance Keeps Getting More Expensive (bloomberg)
- There’s a global shortage of stocks that will backstop the market for the foreseeable future (businessinsider)
- 3 Facts That Help Explain a Confusing Economic Moment (nytimes)
- The 25 Best Restaurants in Boston Right Now (nytimes)
- A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up (nytimes)
- UK’s Smaller Stocks Are Ripe for a Catchup as Profits Reignite (bloomberg)
- The U.S. Is Trying to Cripple Russia’s Vast Arctic LNG Project (wsj)
- The New, More-Hopeful Face of Alzheimer’s Disease (wsj)
- April Monthly Option Expiration Week – DJIA Up 33 of Last 42 (almanactrader)
- Meet The New AI-Robot Billionaire (forbes)
- Michigan Consumer Sentiment Moves Sideways for 4th Straight Month (advisorperspectives)
- Weekly Leading Economic Index (advisorperspectives)
- Nike’s boss says remote work was hurting innovation, so the company realigned and is ‘ruthlessly’ focused on building a disruptive pipeline (fortune)
- Car of the Week: This Restored 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster Could Be Yours for $2.6 Million (robbreport)
- The 9 Best Vintage Ferraris Ever Made (robbreport)
- The 20 Most Expensive Cities in the US—And Why They Might Be Worth It (architecturaldigest)
- Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next (techcrunch)
- 2024 Aston Martin DB12 Volante First Drive Review: Possibly the Best Aston, Roofless (thedrive)
- Apple iPhone Shipments Drop 10% in First Quarter (barrons)
- Intel Has Slumped This Year. Why One Analyst Sees a Rebound Ahead. (barrons)
- Cisco Stock Gets Upgraded to Buy. Why Wall Street Is Abuzz. (barrons)
- Defense Stocks Haven’t Rallied, but There’s Opportunity (barrons)
- What do the royals do all day, anyway? (npr)
- Why companies spin off (npr)
- Hal Lawton on Tractor Supply’s Phenomenal Growth (bloomberg)
- Former auto executives warn electric vehicle push happened ‘too soon and too fast’ (foxbusiness)
- Meta’s AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence (tnw)
Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…
- Third Point, Saddle Point win board seats at Advance Auto Parts. A plan to improve margins may unfold (cnbc)
- Generac Eyes Power Deals With $1 Billion to Spend (bloomberg)
- Texas Warns of Possible Power Emergency Next Week (bloomberg)
- High Rates Have Been a Profit Machine for Banks. Not Anymore. (wsj)
- China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips in Blow to Intel, AMD (wsj)
- China Exports Rise as Trade Tensions Mount (wsj)
- The 18 Handicap Who’s Spending Billions on Golf (wsj)
- Two Brothers, a Big Biotech Bet and an $8 Billion Payout (wsj)
- Warehouse Rents Slipping on Declining Demand (wsj)
- Iran Launches Drone and Missile Attack at Israel (wsj)
- Tiger Woods’s Record-Breaking 23-Hole Marathon (wsj)
- Who can run Disney? The four insiders competing for Bob Iger’s job (ft)
- The pound is no longer so vulnerable (ft)
- The Golf Apps and Gear Changing Our Love of the Game (bloomberg)
- The stunning strength of the US economy means the soft landing may already be here, Evercore founder says (businessinsider)
Be in the know. 5 key reads for Saturday…
- Shares of Citi Rise After Earnings Beat (barrons)
- Consumer Sentiment Slips in April as Inflation Remains Sticky (barrons)
- Solventum Stock Is Cheap. Why Wall Street Says to Wait. (barrons)
- Mario Gabelli comes out against Paramount’s merger with Skydance: ‘I’d rather see no sale’ (nypost)
- Musk and Milei share their love of free markets in first meeting (ft)
Be in the know. 15 key reads for Friday…
- The Podcast Host Who Also Manages a $1.6 Trillion Investment Fund (wsj)
- China’s policy to boost demand by $700 billion will have a ‘bigger and bigger’ impact, official says (cnbc)
- Citi Profit Beats as Companies, Consumers Go on Borrowing Binge (bloomberg)
- 3M Could Lose Its Elite Dividend Status After 64 Years. What It Means for the Stock. (barrons)
- Boeing Knows What It Needs to Do—So Do It. Change the Culture. (barrons)
- U.K. stocks eye record as higher commodity prices boost miners and oil groups (marketwatch)
- Interest Rates Have Investors Worried. Profits Give Them Comfort. (wsj)
- Golf Is Booming. But Can the Good Times Last? (wsj)
- The Masters Still Sizzles. But Is Golf Scaring Off Its Fans? (wsj)
- Bank of England scraps outdated inflation forecast model after Fed boss’ review (cnbc)
- China has strong fundamentals and should remain a focus for businesses: Gan Kim Yong (cnbc)
- Amazon CEO Touts AI Revolution While Committing to Cost Cuts (wsj)
- China’s March exports and imports shrink (reuters)
- Ford spotlights a new lineup of popular trucks (foxbusiness)
- Charting the Fed’s rate path – Nick Timiraos (cnbc)
Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…
- Fed Favors Reducing Monthly Asset Runoff Pace by Roughly Half (bloomberg)
- Fed Prepares Slower Pace of Runoff for $7.4 Trillion Portfolio ‘Fairly Soon’ (wsj)
- Nike Stock Jumps On Upgrade As Estimates ‘Finally Look Achievable’ Ahead Of Paris Olympics (investors)
- Producer Prices Rise Less Than Expected (barrons)
- US Producer Prices Rise But Show Some Relief in Key Categories (bloomberg)
- Give us a (tax) break How empty office buildings could help NYC solve its housing crisis (nypost)
- ECB’s Lagarde Says ‘a Few’ Were Ready to Cut Rates Today (bloomberg)
- Alphabet Heads Toward $2 Trillion With Investors Cheering AI Progress (bloomberg)
- China will remain the world’s No. 1 growth driver, says the Asian Development Bank (cnbc)
- China’s commercial property segment is seeing some bright spots amid a slump in the wider realty sector (cnbc)
- Fed likely to cut rates before ECB blinks, former BOE member says (cnbc)
- What PPI tells us about PCE: Fed’s preferred inflation gauge may not look so bad for March (marketwatch)
- These in-the-know investors are more bearish than they’ve been since 2014 (marketwatch)
- Costco’s March Sales Jump. E-Commerce Is Taking Off. (barrons)
- Hot Inflation Report Derails Case for Fed June Rate Cut (wsj)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Wednesday…
- <Research>CITIC Securities: BABA-SW’s Focus on Core E-commerce Yields Results; Good Shareholders’ Return Expected to be Kept (aastocks)
- Maybe core inflation isn’t as bad as it seems (marketwatch)
- Alibaba’s Jack Ma steps out from the shadows with morale-boosting post (reuters)
- Intel Says New Gaudi 3 AI Chips Top Nvidia H100s in Speed and Cost (barrons)
- Alibaba shares jump after founder Jack Ma reemerges with praise of Chinese giant’s ‘transformations’ (cnbc)
- ‘We turned the company from a cumbersome organisation into one that is simple and agile, where efficiency comes first, and the market comes first,’ Ma wrote (this week) (scmp)
- US consumer prices rise more than expected in March (reuters)
- Beijing retail rents jump by most since 2019 amid ‘demand surge’ (scmp)
- Boeing Engineer Says Company Used Shortcuts to Fix 787 Jets (wsj)
- Hot Inflation Report Weakens Case for Fed’s June Rate Cut (wsj)
- Google, Intel debut new AI chips to fight Nvidia’s dominance (scmp)
- Bank Earnings Are Here Again. Keep Your Eyes on This Metric. (barrons)
- How the End of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Flipped the ‘Seinfeld’ Finale on Its Head (wsj)
- Commodities Rally Reflects a Better Economy, but Also Poses Inflation Risks (wsj)
- China Vehicle Sales Rebound (wsj)
- The 22-Year-Old Beanpole Who Just Played His Way Into the Masters (wsj)
- The Merchant Banker Who Could Win the Masters (wsj)
- Goldman Says It’s Time to Take Tech Profits and Invest Elsewhere (bloomberg)
- Alphabet’s stock nabs fresh high, is only ‘Magnificent Seven’ name to finish at a record (marketwatch)
- Earnings Are Last Pillar of Equity Strength as Rate Cuts Recede (bloomberg)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…
- Disney’s parks are its top money maker — and it plans to spend $60 billion to keep it that way (cnbc)
- Iger Won the Battle — But Disney’s ‘Woke’ War Isn’t Over (bloomberg)
- The Sheikh Who Dominates One of the World’s Hottest Stock Markets (bloomberg)
- Everyone Is Rich, No One Is Happy. The Pro Golf Drama Is Back (bloomberg)
- Michelin Picks 24 Top Hotels in France in First-Ever Ranking (bloomberg)
- Strategas’ Chris Verone gets technical with tech stocks (cnbc)
- ‘Now They’re Voting Red’: A Pennsylvania Fracking Boom Weighs on Biden’s Re-Election Chances (wsj)
- Earnings Season to Test Stock-Market Rally (wsj)
- How the End of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Flipped the ‘Seinfeld’ Finale on Its Head (wsj)
- A Lotus First (barrons)
Be in the know. 20 key reads for Monday…
- Chinese Automaker FAW Group Taps Alibaba Cloud’s Gen AI for Business Intelligence (alizila)
- Yellen says US-China relations on ‘stronger footing’ (ft)
- Alibaba Cloud cuts prices again, this time for international customers as AI generates surging demand (scmp)
- Alibaba Group Invests for Strategic Growth with Cainiao Share Purchase Offer (alizila)
- Alibaba News Roundup: Share Repurchase Update; Alibaba Cloud Launches Open Source Video Generation Tools (alizila)
- These 10 perfect McLarens are for sale. Which one would you pick? (classicdriver)
- Moderate growth and disinflation still alive and well (scottgrannis)
- For the Ultimate Lesson in Car Control, Go Drifting (roadandtrack)
- Bugatti EB110: The First Modern Hypercar Is 30 Years Old (roadandtrack)
- Lexus GX550 vs. Land Rover Defender 130 vs. Mercedes-Benz G550: Which Luxury SUV Is Best Off-Road? (roadandtrack)
- Japan had a vibrant economy. Then it fell into a slump for 30 years. (npr)
- VF Corp. To Roll Out 300 Additional Mono-Brand Retail Stores (sgbonline)
- Vans’ OTW Label Is Taking the Past & Making It Better (highsnobiety)
- Earnings Season Is Coming. What the Market Needs Now. (barrons)
- Many investors are more exposed to China than they think, says Brendan Ahern (cnbc)
- 0:02 / 8:39There’s still ‘gas in the tank’ in this stock market rally, says Fundstrat’s Tom Lee (cnbc)
- The Big Read. Is Japan finally becoming a ‘normal’ economy? (ft)
- Global dominance of biggest stocks rises to highest in decades (ft)
- Jamie Dimon Says 8% Rates Could Lie Ahead (barrons)
- Doubts Creep In About a Fed Rate Cut This Year (wsj)