Be in the know. 15 key reads for April…

 

  1. US could stockpile 1B barrels of oil amid coronavirus price crash: energy secretary (Fox Business)
  2. Why Rice Is a Hot Commodity Now (Barron’s)
  3. ‘The worst is behind us’ — with the most attractive risk-reward in years, it is time to buy stocks, Morgan Stanley says (MarketWatch)
  4. The Coronavirus Recession Will Be Deeper and Faster Than the Financial Crisis. Why That Matters. (Barron’s)
  5. President Trump Says He Will Back Loans To Small Businesses If Necessary (Barron’s)
  6. Thousands of NY COVID patients are being treated with anti-malarial drug (New York Post)
  7. How to make face masks at home (Fox Business)
  8. BofA loosens criteria for small biz loans (Fox Business)
  9. High-Yield Debt Pummeled in ‘Ugly’ First Quarter (Institutional Investor)
  10. Gilead Sciences (GILD) CEO Provides Remdesivir COVID-19 Update; Providing Current 140K Courses at No Cost, Sees Additional 1M Courses by Year-End (Street Insider)
  11. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Post-Pandemic Ideas, Safe Dividends And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  12. Thermo Fisher provides upbeat first-quarter revenue growth outlook, stock rallies (MarketWatch)
  13. St. Louis Fed’s Bullard pitches universal daily COVID-19 testing to help restore economy’s health (MarketWatch)
  14. Car Insurer American Family Gives $200 Million in Coronavirus Refunds (Wall Street Journal)
  15. State Shutdowns Have Taken at Least a Quarter of U.S. Economy Offline (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Big Stock Buys at Building-Materials Companies (Barron’s)
  2. Exclusive: Amazon in contact with coronavirus test makers as it plans pandemic response (Reuters)
  3. 8 Ways Business Owners Can Take Advantage of the Federal Stimulus Package (Entrepreneur)
  4. Their Rightful Owners (The Irrelevant Investor)
  5. Laura Linney: The Most Delightfully Dangerous Woman on TV (The Daily Beast)
  6. Bentley Mulliner’s Hand-Built $1.8 Million Bacalar Has a Dashboard Made From 5,000-Year-Old Wood (Robb Report)
  7. Tom Brady Rents Derek Jeter’s Sprawling Tampa Bay Mansion (Architectural Digest)
  8. A Husband Made A TikTok Of Himself Dancing While His Wife Was In Labor And It Went Viral (BuzzFeed)
  9. A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low (New York Times)
  10. Worst Q1 In Dow History (Almanac Trader)
  11. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Mark Yusko, Ray Dalio, Christopher Hohn, Glenview Capital Management, Pool Corporation (POOL), Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), and More (Insider Monkey)
  12. MiB: Jonathan Miller of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants (Ritholtz MIB)
  13. Some Big Investors Smell Profit in Virus-Plagued Companies (New York Times)
  14. Shockproofing Canada: Why the Keystone pipeline is just the start of making us energy self-sufficient (Financial Post)
  15. Kevin Warsh And The Long Road Back To Economic Recovery (Hoover Institution)
  16. Episode 988: The Economics Of Hospital Beds (NPR Planet Money)
  17. How small businesses hit by coronavirus can get aid (Fox Business)
  18. Japan Is Racing to Test a Drug to Treat Covid-19 (Wired)
  19. Would You Rather: Buy Too Early or Buy Too Late in a Bear Market? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  20. Collusion and Cooperation in the Oil Market (Futures)
  21. The Most Common Sense Way To Stop Spreading the Virus (#masks4all) (Yardeni)
  22. These Common Household Products Can Destroy the Novel Coronavirus (Consumer Reports)
  23. OPEC+ emergency meeting likely to be postponed to April 8 or 9: OPEC sources (Reuters)
  24. Trump Pledges Support for Embattled Oil Industry (Wall Street Journal)
  25. Property Bets Lose Curb Appeal in the Age of Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. The Dow Dropped This Week. That’s Good News. (Barron’s)
  2. 7 Biotech Stocks to Buy for a Post-Pandemic World (Barron’s)
  3. Why You Don’t Have to Worry About the Internet’s Health (Barron’s)
  4. Retail Winners and Losers for When We Can Spend Again (Barron’s)
  5. The Most Profitable Trade: ‘Oil All Over the Oceans Right Now’ (Bloomberg)
  6. When, and How, Does the Coronavirus Pandemic End? (Bloomberg)
  7. ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Overseer Backs Ford’s Pitch for a Sequel (Bloomberg)
  8. The Year’s Hottest New Cars Just Got Cold as Ice (Bloomberg)
  9. Trump says ‘we’ll work this out’ and ‘get our energy business back’ at meeting with oil CEOs (CNBC)
  10. Coronavirus Ended the Screen-Time Debate. Screens Won. (New York Times)
  11. Some Big Investors Smell Profit in Virus-Plagued Companies (New York Times)
  12. The Fed Got a Big Pile of Cash to Help the Economy. Who Will Benefit? (New York Times)
  13. The CDC now says all Americans should wear masks — here’s a simple DIY approach (MarketWatch)
  14. Here are the best bets for investors seeking income, according to Goldman Sachs (MarketWatch)
  15. Several EIA products show what’s happening in current energy markets (EIA)
  16. OPEC+ debates biggest-ever oil cut, awaits U.S. efforts (Reuters)
  17. What You Truly Value (Farnam Street)
  18. Bill Miller On Why Coronavirus Sell Off Is Buying Opportunity Of Generation (YouTube)
  19. Ray Dalio: Chapter 1: The Big Picture in a Tiny Nutshell (LinkedIn)
  20. A Coronavirus Fix That Passes the Smell Test (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Friday…

  1. OPEC+ debates biggest ever cut as virus destroys oil demand (Reuters)
  2. Trump to host Big Oil execs at White House to discuss market slump (Reuters)
  3. Marseille’s maverick chloroquine doctor becomes pandemic rock star (Financial Times)
  4. Best guesses on when corona cases will peak and when lockdowns can end (New York Post)
  5. Adam Sandler sings uplifting ‘Quarantine Song’ on Jimmy Fallon’s show (New York Post)
  6. Opinion: ‘Quiet’ Warren Buffett has three ways to win in this market (MarketWatch)
  7. Oil jumps another 12% a day after its best day on record (CNBC)
  8. OPEC and allies reportedly set for video meeting as analysts pour skepticism on Trump’s intervention (CNBC)
  9. US payrolls plunge 701,000 in March amid the start of a job market collapse (CNBC)
  10. Key 2008 Financial Crisis Players Are Back for Coronavirus (Bloomberg)