Year-End China Stocks Rally Takes Hold as Foreign Funds Pile In (bloomberg)
Dividend Stocks: 3M Hits Buy Point With Dividend Set To Climb For 65th Straight Year (yahoo)
Brad Jacobs Plans to Make Billions in the Building Supply Industry (bloomberg)
Investing for Growth Future Review Alibaba’s 5 Major Themes in 2023 (alibabanews)
Small-cap stocks are nearing a ‘golden cross’ as year-end rally heats up (marketwatch)
This Vaccine Maker’s Stock Is Worth Owning (barrons)
Tencent Buys the Dip as Online Gaming Regulators Scramble (chinalastnight)
Traders that fueled stock-market rally are now nearly tapped out, Goldman says (marketwatch)
2024 Could Be a Winner for Oil, Gas, and Gold (barrons)
A Wave of Corporate Refinancings Is Coming. This Time, It Won’t Lead to Layoffs. (barrons)
Equalweight S&P 500 and handful of key market gauges at or near ‘golden cross’ (marketwatch)
20 midcap stocks with 2024 upside ranging up to 62%, according to analysts (marketwatch)
20 favorite small-cap stocks for 2024 among Wall Street analysts (marketwatch)
How Electric Vehicles Are Losing Momentum with U.S. Buyers, in Charts (wsj)
Santa Might Have One Last Gift for Investors (wsj)
Will China Ease Its New Video Game Controls? Investors Think So. (nytimes)
The Water Trade Is Booming — and Sucking Australia Dry (bloomberg)
Biden administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations will face major tests in 2024 (cnbc)
The ‘Wizard of Wharton’ says stocks will jump next year as economic fears fade – and fresh faith in the Fed explains the market’s latest rally (businessinsider)
The Roaring ’20s are so back, baby! (Probably. OK, maybe … hopefully?) (businessinsider)
China identifies second set of projects in $140 bln spending plan (reuters)
China’s biggest banks are lowering the deposit rates offered to savers, a move that could pave the way for the central bank to make interest-rate cuts to spur economic growth. (wsj)
Biotech stocks set for a rebound in 2024, analysts say (marketwatch)
Minor Rules Make Major Impact, Week in Review (chinalastnight)
Cetera Investment Management CIO Gene Goldman and Great Hill Capital Chairman Tom Hayes discuss whether the resilient market can stay hot in 2024 on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ (foxbusiness)
Tencent Games: CN Govt Draft on New Online Game Rules Does Not Fundamentally Change Key Elements of Game Biz Model (aastocks)
Hedge Funds Bet Most Against Canadian Dollar in Almost Five Years (bloomberg)
Alibaba promotes millennials to key e-commerce leadership roles (scmp)
China’s imports of Dutch chip-making equipment surged tenfold in November (scmp)
US Stocks Go High When Strategists Go Low (bloomberg)
Bristol Myers to Buy Karuna in $14 Billion Pharma Deal (barrons)
2024 is going to ‘feel like a lot of tailwinds coming together’, says Fundstrat’s Tom Lee (cnbc)
5 Stocks That Might Beat the Magnificent Seven in 2024 (barrons)
How the S&P 500 Can Gain Another 20% in 2024 (barrons)
U.S. inflation falls by more than expected in November, bolsters case for lower interest rates from the Fed (marketwatch)
Emerging Markets Struggled in 2023. Here’s Why Next Year May Be Better. (barrons)
U.S., China Militaries Start Talking Again After a Dangerous Rupture (wsj)
Stocks will rocket another 26% over the next 2 years as a housing-market recovery, spending boom, and AI power the economy, market veteran Ed Yardeni says (businessinsider)
Crown Castle Announces Comprehensive Fiber Review and Additions to the Board (crowncastle)
If Xi’s government privatizes inefficient state-owned enterprises, expands access for foreign businesses, and provides more social services and better protection of private property, the economy would embark on a much stronger growth path. (bloomberg)
Buy Now Pay Later Is Booming. Shoppers Tell Us Why. (barrons)
Intel CEO Says Company Will Beat TSMC and the U.S. Will Stay Ahead of China in AI Race. Here’s Why. (barrons)
Alibaba CEO Takes Direct Control of Domestic E-Commerce Businesses (wsj)
Powell’s Pivot Sows Confusion Over When and How Fast Fed Will Cut (wsj)
These Tesla Wannabes Are Running Out of Road (wsj)
The Hedge Fund Traders Dominating a Massive Bet on Bonds (bloomberg)
“Eddie’s leadership of both Alibaba Cloud and [Taobao and Tmall Group] will ensure total focus on, and significant and sustained investment in, our two core businesses of cloud computing and e-commerce, as well as enabling TTG to transform through technology innovation,” Tsai’s letter said. (cnbc)
Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming also serves as Taotian Group CEO to ensure unified command of core strategies (alibabanews)
Hema, Ele.me, Alibaba Digital Media & Entertainment: News on Capital Planning Untrue (aastocks)
Crown Castle hires bankers for strategic review of its fiber business as part of pact with Elliott Investment Management (marketwatch)
Alibaba’s Damo Academy forms new unit as home for over 100 postdoctoral researchers (scmp)
Shanghai Disney Resort opens world’s first Zootopia-themed attraction (scmp)
