HFT VideoCast – Stock Market Commentary and Weekly Recap – Episode 27

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Be in the know. 15 key reads for Monday…

  1. The Art of the Oil Deal (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Gilead Sciences (GILD) Remdesivir Study Shows Two-Third of Severe COVID-19 Patients Improved (Street Insider)
  3. Fed’s Clarida says central bank has tools to avoid deflation: BBG (Reuters)
  4. Fauci: ‘Rolling re-entry’ possible in May (Fox Business)
  5. Photo credit: Emily Elconin
  6. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Berkshire Hathaway, Disney, SoftBank And More (Benzinga)
  7. OPEC and its allies strike historic agreement to cut nearly 10 million barrels a day (MarketWatch)
  8. Higher Natural Gas Prices Are On The Horizon (Yahoo! Finance)
  9. OPEC+ deal saved ‘more than 2 million’ jobs in the US: Russian wealth fund (CNBC)
  10. Historic OPEC+ cut is Trump’s ‘biggest and most complex’ deal ever: Dan Yergin (CNBC)
  11. Goldman Sachs abandons its bearish near-term view on stocks, says the bottom is in (MarketWatch)
  12. U.S. Stabilizes, CDC Says; 70 Vaccines in Progress: Virus Update (Bloomberg)
  13. Alaska Bought Up Berkshire Hathaway, Walmart, and AMD Stock (Barron’s)
  14. 12 Stocks That Are Beating the Market During the Coronavirus Crisis—and Can Keep on Growing After (Barron’s)
  15. Can Cruise Lines and Small Theme Parks Survive? (Barron’s)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Oil jumps as Trump talks up truce hopes for Saudi-Russia price war (StreetInsider)
  2. No One Is Betting in Casinos—Or on Their Stocks ()
  3. Trump says expects Russia-Saudi oil deal soon, invites US oil chiefs to White House (Reuters)
  4. Oil rallies as Trump spurs hopes for Russia-Saudi pact (Financial Times)
  5. Detroit To Be The First City To Roll Out Abbott’s 5-Minute Coronavirus Tests (Benzinga)
  6. Kroger’s sales jump 30% as shoppers stock up amid coronavirus crisis New York Post)
  7. Retailers Under Growing Pressure to Let Workers Wear Masks New York Times)
  8. Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World (Bloomberg)
  9. Walgreens earnings top estimates, says it can’t forecast the impact of coronavirus pandemic (CNBC)
  10. Trump To Talk Aid For Oil As Big Shale Firm Files For Bankruptcy (Investor’s Business Daily)
  11. Big Banks Get Temporary Reprieve (Barron’s)
  12. These 8 Aristocrats Have Safe Dividends. (Safe Being a Relative Term Right Now). (Barron’s)
  13. A Top Occidental Petroleum Executive Is Out as Company Grapples With Oil Rout (Wall Street Journal)
  14. The Fed Is Settling Into Its Role as the World’s Central Bank (Wall Street Journal)
  15. 5 Blue Chip Stocks to Buy Now With Huge Piles of Cash and Very Low Debt (24/7 Wall Street)
  16. Trump May Join Oil Talks Between Russia And Saudi Arabia (Yahoo! Finance)
  17. Workers Return to China’s Factories, but Coronavirus Hurts Global Demand (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Coronavirus Tests Aren’t Hard to Find Everywhere (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Telemedicine, Once a Hard Sell, Can’t Keep Up With Demand (Wall Street Journal)
  20. How a Mailman Still Carries On During Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)