Be in the know. 18 key reads for Monday…

  1. Party Like It’s 1983 (Wall Street Journal)
  2. Five charts that track the U.S. economy amid reopening progress (CNBC)
  3. Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Millions (New York Times)
  4. Chimerica Isn’t Dead, but the Pandemic Wounded It (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Oil prices motor to levels not seen in months as OPEC+ extends historic cuts (Fox Business)
  6. AstraZeneca contacted Gilead over potential megamerger: Bloomberg News (Street Insider)
  7. Las Vegas Is Open for Business Again: 4 Top Gaming Stocks (24/7 Wall Street)
  8. New York City reopens under Phase One on Monday (New York Post)
  9. Bull, bear, bull, bear and now a new bull market — whatever’s next, these stocks will outperform, strategist says (MarketWatch)
  10. Japan Bankruptcies Hit Lowest Since the 1960s: What Gives? (Bloomberg)
  11. Fed Debates Whether to Reinforce Low-Rate Pledge With Yield Caps (Wall Street Journal)
  12. Saudi Arabia’s Secret Plans to Unveil Its Hidden da Vinci—and Become an Art-World Heavyweight (Wall Street Journal)
  13. U.S. Fed’s Main Street lending facility likely to start with a whimper (Reuters)
  14. Stanley Druckenmiller says he’s been ‘humbled’ by market comeback, underestimated the Fed (CNBC)
  15. New CEO Bought Stock in UPS (Barron’s)
  16. Barron’s Daily: Travel Stocks Continue Their Rebound. Not Even a Tropical Storm Can Stop the Rally. (Barron’s)
  17. HP Stock Is Slumping. The CEO and a Director Made the First Insider Buys in Years. (Barron’s)
  18. Emerging-Market Rally Seen Unstoppable as Traders Turn to Powell (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Move Over, Moderna: Why Pfizer May Be The Better Bet To Deliver A Vaccine By Fall (Forbes)
  2. First CRISPR gene editing trial in cancer patients points to safety of technique in medical treatments (FirstPost)
  3. CT: Indoor dining, gyms, movie theaters, small weddings and events to reopen June 17, three days early (News Times)
  4. Hennessey Unleashes Fastest C8 Corvette Stingray Yet (Maxim)
  5. The Business Of Antibody Tests (NPR Planet Money)
  6. Ferrari 812 Superfast Review: One of the Best Engines of All Time (TheDrive)
  7. Michael Jordan pledges $100M to promote racial equality (Fox Business)
  8. California Gov. Gavin Newsom Reveals TV, Film Production Can Restart June 12 (Hollywood Reporter)
  9. Ariel founder: ‘Black people are locked out’ (Pensions & Investments)
  10. Baker Hughes: US rig count down 17 units to 284 (Oil & Gas journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. OPEC+ Agrees to Extend Output Cuts as Quota Cheats Offer Penance (Bloomberg)
  2. Selloff reminiscent of an older bear market: Oakmark’s Nygren (CNBC)
  3. A Booming Stock Market Could Come Back to Bite the Recovery (Bloomberg)
  4. Can Big Business Fix Racial Injustice? It Has to Try. (Barron’s)
  5. 3 Stocks That Could Benefit When Dining Out Returns (Barron’s)
  6. Here are the 10 most under and overbought S&P 500 stocks, according to Goldman (MarketWatch)
  7. How the U.S. dollar’s ‘almost silent slide’ is juicing the stock-market rally (MarketWatch)
  8. These stocks rose by double digits Friday as underperforming sectors bounced back (MarketWatch)
  9. American Airlines stock adds to its tally of records with a weekly gain of over 75% (MarketWatch)
  10. Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp to spend over $115 million to address ‘economic and racial inequities’ (MarketWatch)
  11. Antibody Drugs Could Help Curb the Pandemic. What Investors Need to Know. (Barron’s)
  12. Occidental Stock Rockets 30% Higher (Barron’s)
  13. Amid U.S.-China Tensions, Active Managers Are Buying (Barron’s)
  14. U.S. Unemployment Rate Fell to 13.3% in May (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Home Prices Are Rising, Along With Post-Lockdown Demand (New York Times)
  16. Bears Thwarted Again by Stock Market That Believes in Recovery (Bloomberg)
  17. These 25 Photos Show Why Things Were Designed The Way They Were (Fetch Sport)
  18. Meet the estate agents turning themselves into superstars (Financial Times)
  19. The Art of Being Alone (Farnam Street)
  20. Jamie Dimon: Fed is bringing out the bazooka (YouTube)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Stocks Take Off as Jobs Come Back (Barron’s)
  2. China to Allow Foreign Airlines to Restore Some Flights After U.S. Pressure (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Time to Buy Emerging Markets? (Barron’s)
  4. Oil Rebounds as Market Waits for Production Cuts (Barron’s)
  5. Oil prices rise as OPEC+ seen setting stage for weekend meeting (MarketWatch)
  6. Casino Stocks Are Surging as Las Vegas Reopens (Barron’s)
  7. ‘Europe Finally Got the Message’: Leaders Act Together on Stimulus (New York Times)
  8. Researchers Retract Study Linking Malaria Pill to Heart Risk (Bloomberg)
  9. History Suggests the Handshake Will Survive the Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  10. Is the Coronavirus Really Getting Weaker? (Bloomberg)
  11. Trump Team Envisions Up to $1 Trillion for Next Stimulus Round (Bloomberg)
  12. Las Vegas Casinos Reopen With $30-a-Night Rooms on the Strip (Bloomberg)
  13. 10-year Treasury yield surges above 0.9% after better-than-expected jobs report (CNBC)
  14. The ‘Inconvenient Fact’ Behind Private Equity Outperformance (Institutional Investor)
  15. ‘The biggest payroll surprise in history’ — economists react to May jobs report (MarketWatch)
  16. India Stocks Set for Second Weekly Gain on Easing Lockdown (Bloomberg)
  17. European Central Bank Ramps Up Stimulus Program Beyond $1.5 Trillion (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Airlines Add Flights as Travel Slowed by the Coronavirus Starts to Pick Up (Wall Street Journal)
  19. Americans Are Saving More, but How Long Can It Last? (Wall Street Journal)
  20. Investors Climb Back Into Riskiest Emerging-Market Bonds (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. ECB to Spend Extra 600 Bn Euro on Emergency Bond Buys (Barron’s)
  2. Deutsche Bank Upgrades Wells Fargo (WFC) to Buy; Risks Priced In (Street Insider)
  3. The Morgan Wallen “Chasin’ You” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)… (Zero Hedge)
  4. Friday’s Job Report Could Support Recovery Hopes (Barron’s)
  5. Consumer Spending Trickles Back as U.S. Reopens (Barron’s)
  6. Podcast: The Paycheck Protection Program Is Starting to Run Out (Barron’s)
  7. History Can Show Us Why the Market Is Rising Now (Barron’s)
  8. Pinterest Accelerates Tech Projects as Pandemic Boosts User Engagement (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Fed Expands Municipal Bond Program, Opening Door to Some Smaller Cities (New York Times)
  10. Beijing to Give $1.7 Billion in Vouchers to Boost Shopping (Bloomberg)
  11. Global GDP Tracker’s 2.3% Drop in May Shows Worst Over (Bloomberg)
  12. Fauci (the Horse) Loses Race Badly in the Mud at Belmont Park (Bloomberg)
  13. European Central Bank takes its pandemic bond buying to 1.35 trillion euros to try and prop up economy (CNBC)
  14. Here are the 9 economic relief programs the Fed is using to combat coronavirus fallout (Business Insider)
  15. An oil CEO says crude prices could surge 90% to $70 by fall because US firms have ‘over-cut production’ (Business Insider)
  16. Saudi Arabia and Russia push for an extension to output cuts, OPEC+ meeting this week still possible (CNBC)
  17. American Airlines (AAL) Increases Domestic Flying for Summer Travel Season, Begins Reopening Admirals Clubs and Increases Flexibility (Street Insider)
  18. 10 US Oil Companies Still Likely to Thrive in 2030 (24/7 Wall Street)
  19. 1.88 million workers file for unemployment benefits (Yahoo! Finance)
  20. Nio stock surges after company posts record-high deliveries for May (MarketWatch)
  21. Homebuilders will benefit from Millennials leaving cities: Expert (Fox Business)
  22. U.S. banks attract bargain hunters (Reuters)
  23. Locked-Up Journalists. Espionage Investigations. Constitutional Challenges. The Government’s Release of Economic Data Was Arcane and Complex — Until Now. (Institutional Investor)
  24. Gilead Analyst: Coronavirus Drug, Arcus Collaboration Make Biopharma A Buy (Benzinga)
  25. Royal Caribbean to offer up to $2 billion in bonds and convertible bonds that mature in 2023 (MarketWatch)