Be in the know. 15 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. AstraZeneca Pauses Coronavirus Vaccine Study (Barron’s)
  2. Buy NIO Stock Because Competition With Tesla Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game (Barron’s)
  3. Tesla Stock Drops as Wall Street Scrambles to Assign Blame (Barron’s)
  4. Southwest and 3 Other Airline Stocks Ready to Rebound, Says Morgan Stanley (Barron’s)
  5. Why Pfizer’s Drug Pipeline Will Outshine a Covid Vaccine (Barron’s)
  6. Citigroup Stock Is Earning Fans on Wall Street. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  7. Capri, a Getaway for the Rich and Famous, Misses Its Americans (New York Times)
  8. Paul Singer Wants a Piece of the Action in Chevron’s Deal for Noble Energy (24/7 Wall Street)
  9. Ex-Trump adviser Cohn raises more than planned in blank-check IPO (Reuters)
  10. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy $250 million worth of Snowflake’s shares in private placement (Yahoo! Finance)
  11. Zoom, Boston Beer, Nikola among Forbes 400’s newest members (Fox Business)
  12. Pfizer CEO says ‘we will have an answer by the end of October’ on coronavirus vaccine (Fox Business)
  13. Real Estate Mogul Sam Zell Is Launching A SPAC (Benzinga)
  14. Legendary investor Byron Wien says next ‘real opportunities’ in market are transportation and energy as tech falters (Business Insider)
  15. U.S.-China Chip-War Collateral Damage Will Range Far and Wide (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. 13 Stocks That Both Growth and Value Investors Will Love (Barron’s)
  2. Are the Bulls or Bears Right? One Strategist Offers Context. (Barron’s)
  3. Summer Sayonara. The Energy Report 09/08/2020 (Price Group)
  4. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could be ready for approval by mid-October — but there are still ‘unknowns’ (CNN)
  5. Mortgage Market Booms, Even as Virus Hits Economy (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Goldman Sachs Has 10 Reasons the Bull Market Has Room to Run (24/7 Wall Street)
  7. Nikola soars 47% after striking $2 billion manufacturing partnership with General Motors (Business Insider)
  8. Netflix’s Reed Hastings Deems Remote Work ‘a Pure Negative’ (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Don’t bet against the U.S. market, it’s likely going higher, BlackRock’s Rieder says (Reuters)
  10. White House’s Meadows says he is optimistic for COVID-19 funds before election (Reuters)
  11. Activists Say Some Poison Pills Are Bad Medicine (Barron’s)
  12. SoftBank sheds $8.9bn as ‘whale’ options bets unnerve traders (Financial Times)
  13. Ivermectin Moves Towards Mainstream (TrialSiteNews)
  14. Apple Drops on Negative Goldman Outlook, Possible iPhone Delays (Yahoo! Finance)
  15. Trump Vows to Sharply Scale Back U.S.-China Economic Ties (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Labor Day…

  1. Trump floats using extra $300B in coronavirus relief aid for second stimulus check (Fox Business)
  2. Want to Invest in Emerging Markets? Here’s How to With European, Japanese Stocks. (Barron’s)
  3. China’s August exports stronger than expected (MarketWatch)
  4. Intel CEO on How the Chip Maker Plans to Get Back on Track (Barron’s)
  5. Another Reason to Be Bullish About Bank Stocks (Barron’s)
  6. U.S. Weighs Export Controls on China’s Top Chip Maker (Wall Street Journal)
  7. ‘Fomo feeling’ propels Indian investors into stock market (Financial Times)
  8. Fake reviews are all over Amazon and it’s getting harder to spot them (CNBC)
  9. The stock market’s latest sell-off amounts to ‘healthy’ recalibration before it heads even higher, says BlackRock’s bond chief who oversees $2.3 trillion (Business Insider)
  10. Here’s why the Dow plunged last week and what’s ahead for the stock market (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Which emerging markets are the most promising? (Fox Business)
  2. Kanye West files to appear on Kentucky, Mississippi ballots (The Hill)
  3. Ford is letting customers personalize their Mustang Mach-E before taking delivery (The Verge)
  4. The State of U.S. Infrastructure (CFR)
  5. The Murderer, The Boy King, And The Invention Of Modern Finance (NPR Planet Money)
  6. Why the Mint Julep Is the Official Drink of the Kentucky Derby (How Stuff Works)
  7. The Phrase ‘Riding Shotgun’ Came Way After the West Was Won (How Stuff Works)
  8. The 45 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (Mental Floss)
  9. How A New Type of Money Caused The Financial Crisis (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  10. 61 Books Elon Musk Thinks You Should Read (Entrepreneur)
  11. The Meaning Of Sanctuary: The Four Seasons Resort Los Cabos at Costa Palmas (Just Luxe)
  12. Kanye spends nearly $6 million on presidential campaign (Politico)
  13. ‘Jack Reacher’ Series at Amazon Casts Alan Ritchson in Lead Role (Variety)
  14. Gen Z Really Wants to Get Back to the Office (OZY)
  15. Japan’s Suga says would like to see continuation of easing policies: Nikkei (Reuters)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Today’s Bank Losses Could Become Tomorrow’s Profits. Here’s How. (Barron’s)
  2. This colorful billionaire reportedly played outsized role in recent market rally (New York Post)
  3. Tech Stocks Slide After a Summer-Long Rally. But This Is No Dot-Com Bubble. (Barron’s)
  4. Hedge Funds Lighten Up on Tech and Health Care. Should Investors Follow? (Barron’s)
  5. Warren Buffett Is Betting on Japan. Here’s How You Can Too. (Barron’s)
  6. 15 Affordable Stocks With Earnings Growth on the Way (Barron’s)
  7. Stocks Went Haywire Today. The Steepening Treasury Yield Curve Tells the Real Story. (Barron’s)
  8. U.S. Unemployment Rate Fell to 8.4% in August as Hiring Continued (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Retail Stores Add Jobs as Shoppers Return (Wall Street Journal)
  10. U.S. Government-Bond Yields Climb After Jobs Data (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Tony Hawk Wants to See Skateboarding Everywhere (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Manufacturers Are Coming Home. Are U.S. Workers Ready? (Bloomberg)
  13. Foreign Investors Pour Into India Stocks Despite Sinking Economy (Bloomberg)
  14. A top strategist says the S&P 500 has predicted the election winner 87% of the time in nearly 100 years, but ‘transformational’ events pose a challenge for 2020 vote (Business Insider)
  15. Many investors have never been so confident on Europe, crisis fund chief says (CNBC)
  16. Russia’s energy minister calls oil at $50 to $55 a barrel in 2021 (CNBC)
  17. 5 reasons COVID-19 is boosting cars, SUVs, pickups (USA Today)
  18. Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal made more than $8 million selling Tesla shares 2 days before he bought them (MarketWatch)
  19. Watch Ford’s Insanely Powerful Electric Mustang Pop a Wheelie on the Drag Strip (Futurism)
  20. Tesla spurned in S&P 500 reshuffle (Financial Times)
  21. Amazon deletes 20,000 reviews after evidence of profits for posts (Financial Times)
  22. Warren Buffett: His life in pictures (CNN)
  23. A Value Investor’s Lesson on Valuing People (Safal Niveshak)
  24. Buffett’s Investment in See’s Candy (Dividend Growth Investor)
  25. Some Thoughts On SPACs (AVC)