- Inside the turnaround plan to make Vans, Supreme, and The North Face cool again (fortune)
- Apple Loses $113 Billion in Value After Regulators Close In (bloomberg)
- China and US Start Working Group to Combat Flood of Fentanyl (bloomberg)
- Japan’s Era of Stagnant Salaries, Steady Prices and Mortgages That Never Go Up Is Over (bloomberg)
- Magnificent Seven? It’s More Like the Blazing Two and Tepid Five (bloomberg)
Category: What I’m Reading Today
Be in the know. 30 key reads for Thursday…
- Cowboys owner Jerry Jones puts another $100 million into Frisco’s Comstock Resources (dallasnews)
- China’s Central Bank Sees Room for More RRR Cuts (bloomberg)
- Fed Officials Still See Three Interest-Rate Cuts This Year, Buoying Stocks (wsj)
- Productivity is way up
- The Billionaire Taking on Disney Just Wants Some Respect (nytimes)
- Short Sellers Up Their Wagers Against Commercial Real Estate Again (bloomberg)
- Fed’s interest-rate decision makes bank stocks more attractive: analyst (marketwatch)
- Boeing targets a culprit of 737 MAX production woes: ‘Traveled work’ (yahoo)
- For Real Estate, Rate Cuts Can’t Come Soon Enough (zerohedge)
- Chewy (CHWY) stock jumps on better-than-anticipated Q4 top and bottom line (streetinsider)
- Reddit prices stock at top of target range in biggest social media IPO since Pinterest (streetinsider)
- 6 Highest Yielding Dividend Kings With Yields Up To 9.9% (247wallst)
- Private equity giant Apollo offers $11B for Paramount Pictures studio: report (nypost)
- SocGen’s Kabra Is Now Among the Biggest Bulls on US Stock (bloomberg)
- Apple Braces for Antitrust Lawsuit From DOJ (barrons)
- The Stock Market Is Already Way Up. 8 Stocks That Can Still Outperform. (barrons)
- Replacing Boeing CEO Calhoun Won’t Be Easy (barrons)
- Fundstrat’s Tom Lee sees small-cap benchmark Russell 2000 surging by 50% in 2024 (cnbc)
- Cheesecake Factory and 4 More Stocks Ready to Pop, From a Small-Cap Pro (barrons)
- Home Sales Jumped in February to Fastest Pace in a Year. Prices Are Up, Too. (barrons)
- Nike Reports Earnings Today. It Has Lots of Work to Do. (barrons)
- Nvidia Is Using Its Old 1990s Playbook To Best Its AI Rivals (barrons)
- Biden’s EPA Gives Automakers More Leeway to Phase Out Gas-Engine Cars (wsj)
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows First Patient Using Its Brain Implant (wsj)
- Why Arizona Law Firms Are a Hot Investment for Private Equity (wsj)
- Nelson Peltz Wins Key Endorsement in Disney Battle (wsj)
- Airport Security Is a Confusing Mess Right Now (wsj)
- US Initial Jobless Claims Ease in Sign of Resilient Labor Market (bloomberg)
- The frugal life of Warren Buffett: How the billionaire spends his fortune, from McDonald’s breakfasts to a rare and ‘indefensible’ splurge (yahoo)
- Apple’s Tim Cook meets key suppliers in Shanghai as 57th China store opens (scmp)
Be in the know. 35 key reads for Wednesday…
- How Has the Fed’s Outlook Changed? Here’s What to Watch Today (wsj)
- PDD Stock Soars as Temu Parent Posts Huge Earnings Beat. What It Means for Alibaba. (barrons)
- Intel Gets Up to $8.5 Billion in Chips Act Funding from Biden Administration (barrons)
- Is a June rate cut still possible? Fed’s Powell will look to keep options open this week. (marketwatch)
- The Bank of Japan Just Handicapped a Winning Strategy. What to Know About the Yen Carry Trade. (barrons)
- Energy Suppliers Are Racing to Keep Up with the Data-Driven Energy Surge (barrons)
- The big tech rally is living on borrowed time, says UBS (marketwatch)
- ‘Mr. Yen’ says authorities may soon intervene as Japanese currency eyes multi-decade lows (marketwatch)
- Apple CEO Tim Cook Is in China After iPhone Sales Weaken. (barrons)
- The Latest Options Craze Resembles Past Manias. That’s Not a Good Thing. (barrons)
- Fed is ‘so far from equilibrium’ as markets await rate guidance, BlackRock’s Rick Rieder says (marketwatch)
- Boeing CFO Talks Cash, Spirit, And How to Fix Quality. (barrons)
- Apple Looks to External Partners to Boost AI Efforts (wsj)
- Why the Fed’s ‘Dot Plot’ Is the Center of Attention (wsj)
- The Era of No-Brainer 5% Returns on Cash Is Ending (wsj)
- Shares of Gucci Owner Tumble After Sales Warning (wsj)
- Understanding the Boeing Mess (wsj)
- NYC landlords luring workers back to offices with pickleball, golf simulators, arcade games and gourmet food (nypost)
- Here’s everything to expect from the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting (cnbc)
- Hong Kong’s national security law has analysts divided on its social and economic ramifications (cnbc)
- A Lady Gaga Google Search shows how AI is upending the world’s most profitable online business. ‘Site owners are terrified.’ (businessinsider)
- Once Again, Baltimore Hopes to Fight Blight With $1 Homes (governing)
- 4 signals that suggest the stock market’s bull rally could soon reverse (businessinsider)
- China’s Central Bank Names Two Scholars as New Policy Advisers (bloomberg)
- China to Use Public Auctions for Sale of Special Ultra-Long Debt (bloomberg)
- Intel prepares for $100 billion spending spree across four US states (reuters)
- West is ‘too optimistic’ on nuclear projects, warns engineering chief (ft)
- Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI expands Chinese-character prompt for Kimi chatbot (scmp)
- Tencent doubles share buy-backs while earnings miss estimates (scmp)
- Wouldn’t be surprised if more FOMC members predicted less than two rate cuts in 2024: Jeremy Siegel (cnbc)
- Rumors over ‘next James Bond’ left shaken and stirred by Aaron Taylor-Johnson speculation (wral)
- How the BOJ’s plan for a smooth exit from negative rates unraveled (reuters)
- BOJ Needs to Do More to Change Direction of Yen: Major (bloomberg)
- Goldman’s Hatzius Says US on Track for 2.4% Core PCE (bloomberg)
- Alibaba Raises $317 Million From Sale of Stake in EV Maker XPeng (bloomberg)
Be in the know. 37 key reads for Tuesday…
- Buy 3M Stock Ahead of Healthcare Spinoff. Analyst Expects Higher Valuation. (barrons)
- Natural Gas Prices Won’t Stay Low for Long. An Export Boom Is Coming. (barrons)
- 1 No-Brainer Growth Stock to Buy Now With $100 and Hold Through 2024 (and Beyond) (fool)
- Japan Finally Raises Rates. Global Markets Will Feel It. (barrons)
- As Electric-Vehicle Shoppers Hesitate, Hybrid Sales Surge (wsj)
- UK Reality TV Stars, Influencers Join AliExpress’ New Livestreaming E-Commerce Community (alizila)
- Alibaba brings 5-day delivery to the US in race against Shein, Temu (scmp)
- Marissa Pardini Steps Down from Vans; More Layoffs Hit Office (shop-eat-surf)
- Ant Sets Up Board for International Operations in Broad Overhaul (bloomberg)
- BABA-SW’s Hema Global Shopping Biz GMV Rises 1x+ YoY in 2023 (aastocks)
- Developing | Ant Group restructures part of its businesses into units, promotes veteran finance chief as president to spur growth (scmp)
- Commercial Real Estate Is a Slow Burn,’ Says Bank of America CEO Moynihan (bloomberg)
- Small Caps Can Shine With Reasonable Rates: BofA (bloomberg)
- BofA’s Moynihan on US Consumer, Trading Activity and CRE (bloomberg)
- BofA’s Moynihan: Banks Have ‘Tremendous Amounts of Capital’ (bloomberg)
- BofA CEO Moynihan: Customers ‘Remarkably Resilient’ (bloomberg)
- Central bankers see ‘immaculate disinflation’ within reach (ft)
- The ferocious US pushback against new banking rules (ft)
- Warren Buffett Says Even The Bottom 2% Of Earners ‘All Live Better Than John D. Rockefeller’ – And He Was The Richest Man In The World (yahoo)
- New-Home Construction Rose in February. Builders Are Confident. (barrons)
- Don’t want to chase Big Tech? Money manager flags three unloved stocks to bet on now. (marketwatch)
- Fusion Pharmaceuticals Stock Soars. It’s Being Acquired by AstraZeneca in $2.4 Billion Deal. (barrons)
- Odds of a June rate cut by Fed slip below 50%, according to this gauge (marketwatch)
- ESPN Boss Jimmy Pitaro’s Chaotic Race to Remake the Sports Giant (wsj)
- Once America’s Hottest Housing Market, Austin Is Running in Reverse (wsj)
- Cities Face Cutbacks as Commercial Real Estate Prices Tumble (nytimes)
- Japan Ends Era of Negative Rates With Few Clues on Further Hikes (bloomberg)
- Warren Urges Powell to Cut Rates to Help Struggling Clean Energy (bloomberg)
- Trading Floors Buzz With Excitement as BOJ Axes Negative Rates (bloomberg)
- Real Estate Pain Is Showing Up in an Obscure Investment Product (bloomberg)
- The Fed Has a Lot of Questions to Answer About Its Balance Sheet (bloomberg)
- America’s Place in India’s Butter Chicken Fight (bloomberg)
- Harvard-trained neuroscientist with 20+ years experience: 7 tricks I use to keep my memory sharp (cnbc)
- Fed could cut rates fewer times than expected as economy keeps growing, according to CNBC survey (cnbc)
- Nordstrom shares jump more than 10% on report retailer is trying to go private (cnbc)
- Housing Starts And Permits Surged In February (Despite Plunging Rate-Cut Odds) (zerohedge)
- A Bill Gates company is about to start building a nuclear power plant in Wyoming (businessinsider)
Be in the know. 55 key reads for Monday…
- China Shares Lifted by Data. Expect More Gains. (barrons)
- Meet the ‘Witch of Wall Street,’ a black-clad pioneering value investor who became the world’s richest woman—but is wrongly remembered as a cheapskate (fortune)
- China kicks off the year on strong note as retail, industrial data tops expectations (cnbc)
- Fed Rate Cuts Are on Hold. 3 Picks if They Come Sooner. (barrons)
- Why Bank of Japan may shake up financial markets before Fed’s next interest-rate decision (marketwatch)
- Inflation is NOT running hot (scottgrannis)
- Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features (bloomberg)
- Fed rate cuts will be a tailwind for small caps, says Fundstrat’s Tom Lee (cnbc)
- PayPal Stock Has Fallen Far Enough. It’s Time to Buy. (barrons)
- A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals (nytimes)
- How China Could Swamp India’s Chip Ambitions (wsj)
- The F-Bomb-Dropping Airline CEO About to Earn a $100 Million-Plus Bonus (wsj)
- Dollar Stores Get Devalued as Low-Income Consumers Struggle (wsj)
- A Big Disney Fight Isn’t Nelson Peltz’s Only Drama (wsj)
- Suspense Builds for Fed as Growth Downshifts and Inflation Lingers (wsj)
- Cisco stock still isn’t back to its 2000 high: Chart of the Week (yahoo)
- Hertz CEO resigns after push to buy Tesla fleet backfires big time for company (foxbusiness)
- Boeing bonds are still coveted by investors despite a rough 2024 for jet maker (marketwatch)
- Steven Mnuchin’s interest in TikTok and NYCB echoes his pre-Trump investment playbook (marketwatch)
- TikTok Bill’s Progress Slows in the Senate (nytimes)
- S. stocks have beaten European equities but won’t for much longer, says JPMorgan (marketwatch)
- The Fed’s Challenge: Has It Hit the Brakes Hard Enough? (wsj)
- Markets capitulate to Fed on interest rates after months-long stand-off (ft)
- US equity funds draw record inflow as investors bet on soft landing (ft)
- ‘Growth company with no growth’: Wells Fargo says Tesla stock could drop 23% in scathing downgrade (businessinsider)
- It’s actually a good time to buy a new car (businessinsider)
- The end of the Realtor monopoly (businessinsider)
- Michelin Unveils 2024 List of Starred Restaurants in Hong Kong, Macau (bloomberg)
- What Must Nelson Peltz Do to Get Some Respect? (nytimes)
- 10 Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $10 (morningstar)
- Wall Street Doom Prophesy Falls Flat on Hottest Rally Since 2016 (bloomberg)
- The Consumer Price Index Doesn’t Capture What’s Really Hurting Consumer Confidence (barrons)
- Fast-Food Companies Could Be Heading Toward a Price War. Why McDonald’s Could Win (barrons)
- How the Federal Reserve Could Throw Stocks for a Loop (barrons)
- Masters in Business: Mark Wiedman (bloomberg)
- remembering marcello gandini, italian car designer of lamborghini, ferrari, maserati and more (designboom)
- Ex-Ford CEO warns of ‘real financial trouble’ for EV startups as adoption takes longer than expected (fortune)
- Can Ferrari, the Winningest Team in F1 History, Get Back on Track? We Ask an Expert (robbreport)
- Weekly Leading Economic Index (advisorperspectives)
- Alexander Hamilton and the Birth of US Industrial Policy (bloomberg)
- Who Will Be the Next James Bond? (townandcountrymag)
- Scottie Scheffler defends Players Championship title with dominant Sunday charge (golf)
- The End of Japan’s Negative Rates Will Be a Slow-Moving Tsunami (wsj)
- Disney Board Seats for Nelson Peltz Are a Long Shot. He’s Winning Just the Same. (barrons)
- Park Avenue landlords boast new leases after glowing Sixth Ave. report (nypost)
- Dan Loeb Enters the Chip Wars (nytimes)
- Florida Is Not So Cheap Compared With New York These Days (bloomberg)
- Carbone Wants to Conquer the World With a Red Sauce Empire (bloomberg)
- There’s Now a Fake Santorini in Abu Dhabi to Lure Luxury Travelers (bloomberg)
- There’s really no need for the Fed to lower interest rates, says Ed Yardeni (cnbc)
- Damo Academy plans to launch latest RISC-V chip this year as chip demand grows (scmp)
- Good news is good news again in markets (ft)
- Goldman Sachs raises US real GDP growth forecast (streetinsider)
- TikTok’s Business, in Charts (wsj)
- The Fed’s Challenge: Has It Hit the Brakes Hard Enough? (wsj)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for St. Patrick’s Day…
- How AI Is Sparking a Change in Power (barrons)
- Investors Don’t Need to Sweat the Latest Boeing 737 Safety Incident. The Data Show Why. (barrons)
- Dan Yergin Is Concerned About AI-Fueled Boom in Electricity Use (bloomberg)
- The Everything Rally Comes to Derivatives Market (bloomberg)
- Apple Without AI Looks More Like Coca-Cola Than High-Growth Tech (bloomberg)
- America’s Office Fire Sale Has Barely Begun (wsj)
- Berkshire Bought Back About $2.3 Billion in Stock (barrons)
- The Big Read. The battle over TikTok (ft)
- Barclays explains why S&P 500 keeps rallying despite hot CPI, PPI data (streetinsider)
- Investors should buy cheap portfolio insurance now before stock market turns volatile, Goldman warns (marketwatch)
Be in the know. 8 key reads for Saturday…
- China’s Fiscal Stimulus Plan May Be Bigger Than It Appeared (bloomberg)
- The Rough Years That Turned Gen Z Into America’s Most Disillusioned Voters (wsj)
- Sorry Stock Bulls, the ‘Wall of Cash’ Isn’t All Headed Your Way (wsj)
- UK Inflation Expectations Fall to Lowest Since BOE Hikes Began (bloomberg)
- 2024 Ford F-250: A Primitive, Powerful Beast of a Truck (wsj)
- This Rare Ferrari Dino 246 Spider Is A Sought-After Tribute To Enzo’s Son (maxim)
- The DNA of a Warren Buffett Company (morningstar)
- Warren Buffett Minds the GAAP (wsj)
Be in the know. 15 key reads for Friday…
- AMD Rally Looks More Fragile Than Nvidia’s as Traders Bid Up AI (bloomberg)
- PayPal Stock Has Fallen Far Enough. It’s Time to Buy. (barrons)
- Cockpit Mishap Seen as Likely Cause of Plunge on Latam Boeing 787 (wsj)
- Nvidia led Phase 1 of the AI trade, these are the next three, says Goldman Sachs (marketwatch)
- Disney’s Proxy War Is Getting Very Noisy. What Really Matters. (barrons)
- Steven Mnuchin’s Bid for TikTok Isn’t as Strange as You Think (barrons)
- Boeing’s problems don’t change the overall outlook for the commercial aerospace industry. Planes are in hot demand. (barrons)
- Deals Are Coming Back. These 8 Companies Are Buyout Candidates. (barrons)
- As War Rages On, the Stock Market Shrugs It Off. Will It Last? (barrons)
- Dollar Store Stocks Tumbled. That Might Be a Buying Opportunity. (barrons)
- Options trades to exceed stocks for first time since 2021 as $5 trillion in contracts come due Friday (marketwatch)
- Real-estate prices have bottomed out and it’s now time to buy, Blackstone president says (marketwatch)
- Nvidia is no longer Wall Street’s favorite stock. This company is. (marketwatch)
- Private Equity Wants Your Credit Card Debt. And Car Loan. And Mortgage. (wsj)
- Why That Hot Biotech IPO Could Be a Winner (wsj)
Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…
- Fisker Preparing for Possible Bankruptcy Filing: Report (barrons)
- Airfares Have Taken Off. Why They Might Not Drop Soon. (barrons)
- Auto Insurance Prices Soared Last Month. Why They Finally Might Be Peaking. (barrons)
- India Banned TikTok. Then Instagram and Other Copycats Took Off. (barrons)
- Producer Price Data Will Be the Fed’s Last Look at Inflation Before Rate Decision (barrons)
- Lennar Beats Forecasts as Incentives Boost New Orders (barrons)
- ‘I’m not sure we need 2% inflation’: How investors are absorbing Tuesday’s CPI report (marketwatch)
- Inflation Remains Americans’ Top Concern Even as They Plan to Keep Spending (barrons)
- Don’t Worry Over Apartment REITs. Some Can Still Raise the Rent. (barrons)
- This is a long-term bull market, says Ed Yardeni (cnbc)
Be in the know. 34 key reads for Wednesday…
- Chinese stocks are back in a bull market as investors buy into the nation’s economic rebuild (businessinsider)
- 3M (MMM) hikes first-quarter earnings forecast amid healthcare unit spin-off (streetinsider)
- ‘It’s just a fantasy’: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says AI will not replace human fund managers (marketwatch)
- China’s Biggest ETF Reaches $28 Billion on National Team Buying (bloomberg)
- 3M hires outsider Bill Brown as CEO, shares jump (foxbusiness)
- The last mile of inflation hits another big bump in the road (marketwatch)
- Illegal immigration is giving Fed more scope to let economy run hot, researchers say. (marketwatch)
- The Fed Has a Tricky Data Problem. The Economy Is Sending Lots of Mixed Signals. (barrons)
- Auto Insurance Prices Soared Last Month. Why They Finally Might Be Peaking. (barrons)
- For Golf Communities, It’s All About the Long Game (barrons)
- This New AI Chip Makes Nvidia’s H100 Look Puny in Comparison (barrons)
- How Safe Are Boeing Planes? A Look at the Data. (barrons)
- Amazon Will Now Deliver Eli Lilly Weight Loss Drug (barrons)
- Productivity Is Growing Fast. Don’t Give AI the Credit. (barrons)
- Big Stocks Aren’t the Only Play. It’s Time to Look at Smaller Ones. (barrons)
- Berkshire Buys More Liberty Sirius XM, Now Holds $2.6 Billion of Tracking Stock (barrons)
- ADM Finds ‘Material Weakness’ in Accounting Probe (barrons)
- Inflation Picks Up to 3.2%, Slightly Hotter Than Expected (wsj)
- 3M Names New CEO Amid PFAS Battles, Health Spinoff (wsj)
- Alibaba’s Media Arm to Invest $640 Million in Hong Kong Entertainment (wsj)
- Dollar Tree to Close About 1,000 Stores (wsj)
- How China Tried to Fix the Stock Market—and Broke the Quants (wsj)
- Miami’s Office Market Was Red-Hot. Now Its Tallest Planned Tower Can’t Fill Its Space. (wsj)
- Activist Investor Land & Buildings Urges Office Owner to Liquidate (wsj)
- Dodge drops the Challenger, flexes new 2024 Charger Daytona EV (usatoday)
- China Pledges Central Government Funds For Equipment Upgrades (bloomberg)
- The Fed Will Slow QT. What Matters Is Where It Stops (bloomberg)
- Jamie Dimon endorses Disney CEO Bob Iger in proxy fight with activist (cnbc)
- EV euphoria is dead. Automakers trumpet consumer choice for U.S. car shoppers (cnbc)
- Top CFOs are as bullish on the Dow and as dovish on the Fed as they’ve been in a long time: CNBC survey (cnbc)
- Forget Nvidia: Billionaire Investors Are Selling It and Buying These 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Instead (yahoo.finance)
- AMD Rally Looks More Fragile Than Nvidia’s as Traders Bid Up AI (finance.yahoo)
- Jerome Powell just revealed a hidden reason why inflation is staying high: The economy is increasingly uninsurable (fortune)
- The Big Read. Shipbuilding: the new battleground in the US-China trade war (ft)