Be in the know. 15 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. A Dozen Stocks That Will Make Both Growth and Value Investors Happy (Barron’s)
  2. 7 Value Stocks With Morningstar ‘Buy’ Ratings (Yahoo! Finance)
  3. Bank of America Beat Earnings Forecasts. Why Its Stock Is Dropping. (Barron’s)
  4. Goldman Sachs’s Third-Quarter Profit Nearly Doubles (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Exxon’s Dividend Is Still a Concern. Goldman Sachs Upgraded It Anyway. (Barron’s)
  6. Wells Fargo Profit Slumps on Severance, Remediation Charges, Revenue Beats (Bloomberg)
  7. Wells Fargo returns to profit after painful second quarter (Financial Times)
  8. A Wall Street chief strategist says US lawmakers need a deal on fiscal aid – even a small one will help save consumer spending. (Business Insider)
  9. Failure to provide more fiscal stimulus is a ‘significant mistake’ that could cause more businesses to fail, Moody’s chief economist says. (Business Insider)
  10. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is in talks to partner with Mitsui, the Japanese trading group’s CEO says (Business Insider)
  11. Should Fiscal Policy Get More Chinese? (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Hedge fund short sellers target pandemic winners (Financial Times)
  13. Derivatives trading surges for big US tech companies (Financial Times)
  14. Study of Eli Lilly Covid-19 Drug Paused Due to Safety Concern (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Regeneron’s Coronavirus October Surprise (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Tuesday…

  1. Dimon Signals The All Clear: JPMorgan Earnings Smash Expectations As Loss Provisions Plummet 94% (ZeroHedge)
  2. Exxon Mobil upgraded to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs (TheFly)
  3. Citi Posts Biggest Quarterly Profit of Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  4. Day-Trader Options Action Is Spotted Yet Again in Nasdaq Surge (Bloomberg)
  5. Desperate Americans hit by pandemic beg Congress, Trump to pass economic relief bill (Reuters)
  6. U.S. small business confidence at highest since February (Reuters)
  7. China’s imports, exports surge as global economy reopens (Reuters)
  8. Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine study paused due to illness: report (FoxBusiness)
  9. “Nancy Pelosi take this deal!” Andrew Yang, a former Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted on Saturday. “Put politics aside people are hurting.” (FoxBusiness)
  10. Why You Didn’t Notice a Japanese Stock Index Beating the Nasdaq This Year (Wall Street Journal)
  11. JPM: Credit costs of $611 million included $569 million of net reserve releases (Street Insider)
  12. Ford and General Electric are headed back to the double digits, Jim Cramer says (CNBC)
  13. JPMorgan’s Earnings Were Better Than Expected. Here’s How the Bank Did. (Barron’s)
  14. A New Roaring ‘20s Is Coming for Industrial Stocks (Barron’s)
  15. The American Dream: Bringing Factories Back to the U.S. (Barron’s)
  16. Lotus Goes Electric With a US$2.1 Million Hypercar (Barron’s)
  17. Oil bounces after sharp jump in Chinese imports (MarketWatch)
  18. JPMorgan beats analysts’ profit estimates as the bank sets aside less for loan losses (CNBC)
  19. Disney Elevates Streaming Business in Major Reorganization (Wall Street Journal)
  20. BofA Survey Shows Investors Braced for Contested U.S. Election (Bloomberg)
  21. Natural Gas Surges as Traders Brace for Cold Winter (Wall Street Journal)
  22. Key U.S. Inflation Gauge Rises at Slowest Pace in Four Months (Bloomberg)
  23. Warren Buffett once used LeBron James to explain the risk of diversification, and compared his return to Cleveland to new Coke’s demise (BusinessInsider)
  24. Top Analyst Raises Price Targets on 4 High Dividend-Paying Bank Stocks (24/7 Wall Street)
  25. Citi Posts Biggest Quarterly Profit of Pandemic. Loan provisions return to normal after surging in first half. (Bloomberg)