Be in the know. 15 key reads for Wednesday…

  1. White House and Senate strike a deal on historic $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill (CNBC)
  2. Here’s What Top Hedge Funds Are Buying In The Coronavirus Stock Market Crash (Yahoo! Finance)
  3. The Stock Buyback Binge May Be Over. For Now. (New York Times)
  4. The Federal Reserve Has Never Bought ETFs Before. Why That’s Changing. (Barron’s)
  5. SoftBank Donates N95 Masks as Hospitals Struggle to Find Them (Barron’s)
  6. Opinion: This stock market is full of drunken sailors, and you want to buy what they’re foolishly selling (MarketWatch)
  7. Federal Reserve taps BlackRock to manage bond purchases (Financial Times)
  8. 7 Stocks to Buy in a Dip Like Warren Buffett (Yahoo! Finance)
  9. Why Natural Gas Prices Could Double by Next Winter (Barron’s)
  10. The 15 Best New Things On Netflix In March (Zimbio)
  11. Bullard: $2 trillion package working through Congress ‘scaled about right’ for crisis (Reuters)
  12. Nike Says Digital Orders Offset Damage to Retail From Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
  13. The Pandemic in My Neighborhood (Michael Lewis) (Bloomberg)
  14. How to Avoid Eating All Day While Coronavirus Keeps Us Working From Home (Wall Street Journal)
  15. The Olympics Hit Pause. Athletes Will Feel It Most. (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 16 key reads for Monday…

  1. These Drugs Are Helping Our Coronavirus Patients (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement (Federal Reserve)
  3. Fed calls emergency meeting, announces unprecedented moves to calm corporate debt (Yahoo! Finance)
  4. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Big Tech Picks, Bank Stocks Large and Small And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  5. Danaher (DHR) Unit Cepheid Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization for 45 Minute COVID-19 Test (Street Insider)
  6. One Anecdote (NY Testing Starts Tomorrow): Florida man with coronavirus says drug touted by Trump saved his life (New York Post)
  7. Stock futures cut losses as Fed announces limitless asset purchases to keep markets functioning (CNBC)
  8. Bond girl Olga Kurylenko says she has ‘completely recovered’ from coronavirus (New York Post)
  9. Gilead Stops Accepting Emergency Applications for Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir (Barron’s)
  10. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson ‘feel better’ two weeks after first coronavirus symptoms (New York Post)
  11. Virus Rescue Plan Stalls When Democrats Block McConnell’s Offer (Bloomberg)
  12. Honeywell boosting mask production, creating hundreds of jobs (Fox Business)
  13. Kashkari to Congress: Err on the side of being too generous (MarketWatch)
  14. Dollar General to hire 50,000 employees by the end of April (MarketWatch)
  15. Fed will make up to $4 trillion in loans to businesses to rescue the U.S. economy, Mnuchin says (MarketWatch)
  16. Why It’s So Difficult to Stop the Spread of the Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. NY will immediately start conducting trials of an experimental COVID-19 treatment with hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax. (New York Times)
  2. Danaher’s Cepheid Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization For 45-Minute Coronavirus Test (Benzinga)
  3. France makes ‘massive’ discovery that old medicines work against coronavirus (Fox Business)
  4. Will the weather help us fight the virus? (The Reformed Broker)
  5. Bullard said the “core aim” can be kept simple: “keep everyone, households and businesses whole through the second quarter.” (Yahoo! Finance)
  6. Humanity Rallies to Battle Coronavirus (Almanac Trader)
  7. What The 2020 Coronavirus Stimulus Checks Might Look Like (Forbes)
  8. Meet The Italian Engineers 3D-Printing Respirator Parts For Free To Help Keep Coronavirus Patients Alive (Forbes)
  9. Most second quarter GDP forecasts now range from horrible (-8%) to catastrophic (-15%) (Fortune)
  10. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  11. Google Now Offering Virtual Tours of Over 1,200 Iconic Museums (Maxim)
  12. Episode 982: How To Save The Economy Now (NPR)
  13. The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming (Wired)
  14. Gen X Was Born for This (Medium)
  15. What If You Buy Stocks Too Early During a Market Crash? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  16. Why I’m Building My Own Airplane (Popular Mechanics)
  17. Coronavirus Cases Top 316,000 As U.S. Covid-19 Cases Surge Near 27,000; Stimulus May Hit $2 Trillion Amid Coronavirus Market Crash (Investors)
  18. Dell Stock Is Slumping, but CEO Michael Dell Scooped Up Shares (Barron’s)
  19. The Worst of the Global Selloff Isn’t Here Yet, Banks and Investors Warn (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Coronavirus crisis: Feds should use banks to help small biz, homeowners (New York Post)