The Grace Potter “Falling or Flying” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…

This week’s pick for “theme song of the week” – to embody the sentiment of the Stock Market – is Grace Potter’s “Falling or Flying.”  After a 6% intra-week drawdown last week, this week we’ve made up for lost ground, and more…

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Be in the know. 15 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Forget About Dogs Of The Dow, Upgrade To Dobermans (Forbes)
  2. Hedge Fund Tips – Episode 10 – VideoCast. Stock Market Commentary. (ZeroHedge)
  3. How Trump Planned the Drone Strike With a Tight Circle of Aides (Bloomberg)
  4. Here’s what typically happens to the financial markets after major Middle East crisis events (CNBC)
  5. Billionaires shop at Costco too—see Mark Zuckerberg checking out TVs (CNBC)
  6. Strait of Hormuz, the world’s biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as Iran tensions flare (MarketWatch)
  7. Lennar Stock Looks Like a Bargain. Here’s Why. (MarketWatch)
  8. Large Macy’s Option Trader Betting On A Rebound Year (Benzinga)
  9. How Uncut Gems Won Over the Diamond District (Vanity Fair)
  10. Amazon Is a Free-Cash Rocket Ship.Time to Jump on Board. (Barron’s)
  11. There Are Slim Pickings in the Restaurant Sector. Here’s One Stock Worth Nibbling On. (Barron’s)
  12. Occidental Petroleum, Walt Disney, Nissan Motor: Stocks That Defined the Week (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Ten people set to shape Wall Street in 2020 (Financial Times)
  14. Fed minutes show confidence in 2020 interest rate path (Financial Times)
  15. Stocks Face New Risks, But Here’s Why It’s Not Time To Flee (Investor’s Business Daily)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for New Year’s Eve…

  1. William Blair Sees Biotech M&A Continuing in 2020; Issues Top 10 Predictions (Street Insider)
  2. Hedge Fund Tips – Episode 9 – VideoCast. Stock Market Commentary. (ZeroHedge)
  3. Is Nio a Serious Threat to Tesla in China? (24/7 Wall Street)
  4. US Home Price Gains Accelerate Again (But Not In San Francisco) (ZeroHedge)
  5. Dennis Gartman Says Goodbye With One Last Stock Market Warning (Barron’s)
  6. Warren Buffett on why companies cannot be moral arbiters (Financial Times)
  7. Soy Heads for Best Month Since 2016 on China Demand Optimism (Bloomberg)
  8. Apple Was the Dow’s Best Stock in 2019. Here’s What History Says Will Happen Next Year. (Barron’s)
  9. The Dogs of the Dow was a winning strategy for the decade (Barron’s)
  10. The Stock Market Is Ending the Year With a Strong December. Here’s What History Says Happens Next. (Barron’s)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. DuPont Has Narrowed Its Focus. Analyst Sees a Winner for 2020. (Barron’s)
  2. 8 Oil Stocks Goldman Sachs Says to Buy in 2020 (Barron’s)
  3. Stanley Druckenmiller Is Embracing Risk Again, Just ‘Timidly’ (Bloomberg)
  4. U.S. Energy Chief Shrugs Off Permian Oil Slowdown as a ‘Pause’ (Barron’s)
  5. Saturday before Christmas expected to be the biggest U.S. shopping day of 2019 (Reuters)
  6. Why Fund Managers Are Cranking Up the Risk (Institutional Investor)
  7. Trump adviser hints at next big trade deal (Fox Business)
  8. The U.S. housing market is taking off: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance)
  9. A Berkshire Hathaway decade in review: Here are the biggest takeaways from Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letters (Business Insider)
  10. Dollar Is Poised to Weaken Just in Time (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. The Two Countries Dictating Oil Prices In 2020 (Yahoo! Finance)
  2. The Trade Deal Doesn’t Fix Everything. The Market Doesn’t Care. (Barron’s)
  3. Animal-Care Provider Zoetis and 6 More Companies Are Raising Dividends (Barron’s)
  4. Global Economy Shows Signs of Regained Footing (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Upbeat Chinese Economic Data Buoy Commodities (Wall Street Journal)
  6. This year’s really big rally doesn’t mean 2020 needs to be a down year, history shows (CNBC)
  7. UK unemployment falls to lowest level since 1975 (BBC)
  8. US Single-Family Building Permits Reach 12-Year High (Zero Hedge)
  9. Worst to First in 2020 (Oil Stocks)? (Yahoo! Finance)
  10. 7 Greatly Undervalued Dow Stocks for Upside and Dividends in 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)