Be in the know. 10 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. For India’s Battered Small Caps, Patience Is Virtue, ICICI Says (Bloomberg)
  2. US debt investors seek protection against inflation (Financial Times)
  3. Expert: These Will Be The Biggest Hedge Funds Trends Of 2020 (Benzinga)
  4. How 7-Eleven Struck Back Against an Owner Who Took a Day Off (New York Times)
  5. New cars hit the LA Auto Show (USA Today)
  6. Byron Wien makes some bold 2020 calls in his widely followed surprises list including 2 rate cuts (CNBC)
  7. Bet on these big names to use their scale to squeeze out smaller rivals, says Jefferies (MarketWatch)
  8. US trade deficit plunges to more than 3-year low (Fox Business)
  9. RBC Capital Markets Out With First Top Picks Equity List for 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
  10. Oil tycoon Harold Hamm predicts 19% jump in U.S. oil prices within six months, ‘regardless of what happens’ in the Mideast (MarketWatch)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for New Year’s Day…

  1. Three Neglected Parts of the Stock Market That Could Win in 2020 (Barron’s)
  2. How investors see 2020 shaping up in US financial markets (Financial Times)
  3. Stock Market Caps Bullish Year With Modest Gains; Which Sectors Will Lead In 2020? (Investor’s Business Daily)
  4. Steve Cohen one of few bright spots in bad year for hedge funds (New York Post)
  5. Chill, It Might Not Be That Bad: The Optimist’s Guide to 2020 (Bloomberg)
  6. India Stocks Rise as Investors Bank on Economic Recovery in 2020 (Bloomberg)
  7. Oil Caps Strongest Year Since 2016 on OPEC Cuts, Trade Truce (Bloomberg)
  8. UK is set to exit the EU next month: Here are some important Brexit-related dates of 2020 (CNBC)
  9. Warren Buffett turned down a chance to buy Tiffany’s (Business Insider)
  10. 11 Top Merrill Lynch Stock Picks for 2020 (24/7 Wall Street)
  11. Here are the best and worst Dow and S&P 500 stocks of 2019 (MarketWatch)
  12. These are the 20 best-performing stocks of the past decade, and some of them will surprise you (MarketWatch)
  13. These 10 S&P 500 stocks were lousy in 2019, but they could return 40% or more in 2020 (MarketWatch)
  14. Dow, Exxon Mobil and IBM top the ‘Dogs of the Dow’ list as 2019 ends (MarketWatch)
  15. Oil analysts bet on modest price gains in 2020 as supply shrinks: Reuters poll (Yahoo! Finance)