Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. Embattled Oil Stocks Occidental and Chesapeake See Large Insider Buys (Barron’s)
  2. Lighthizer Scores a Trifecta of Wins for Trump’s Trade Agenda (Bloomberg)
  3. A Warren Buffett Protégé on the Most Critical Thing She’s Learned About Turning Companies Around (Fortune)
  4. Opinion: There’s more upside for biotech even after 24% gains in two months (MarketWatch)
  5. Villains or visionaries? Hedge funds short companies they say ‘greenwash’ (Reuters)
  6. Fresh off election win, Boris Johnson seeks new Brexit legislation ‘before Christmas’ (MarketWatch)
  7. Stock market ‘melt-up’ coming soon: Bank of America (FoxBusiness)
  8. Bond funds revel in white-hot year for fixed income (Financial Times)
  9. Analysts: 9 Stocks Will Grow Sales The Most Next Year (Investor’s Business Daily)
  10. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Charles Schwab, Disney, Sprint, Netflix And More (Yahoo! Finance)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Biotech Stocks Are Poised to Rise in 2020, Analyst Says. Here Is His Top Pick. (Barron’s)
  2. The Pound Is Only Heading in One Direction (Bloomberg)
  3. Where Can Investors Find Value in a Long Bull Market? Here Are Our 10 Stock Picks for 2020. (Barron’s)
  4. Lachlan Murdoch Purchases ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Mansion for Record Price (Fortune)
  5. Here’s What Every Michelin 3-Star Restaurant in the US Is Serving on New Year’s Eve (Robb Report)
  6. We Have a Trade Deal and Brexit Clarity. That’s Good News for Stocks. (Barron’s)
  7. TOP 10 concept cars of 2019 (designboom)
  8. This Mind-Blowing Mojave Desert Compound Will Train Astronauts For Life on Mars (Maxim)
  9. Fed’s Clarida Dismisses Weak Retail Sales, Says Outlook Solid (Bloomberg)
  10. Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Lead Charts: 2020 Tech Trends (ValueWalk)
  11. The Top 20 Destinations For 2020 (Forbes)
  12. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  13. China to target around 6% growth in 2020, step up state spending: sources (Reuters)
  14. U.S. Mnuchin says trade deal with China to boost global economy (Reuters)
  15. Warren Buffett said an 89-year-old carpet seller would ‘run rings around’ Fortune 500 CEOs. Here’s the remarkable story of Mrs B (Business Insider)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Friday…

  1. Regeneron (REGN) Upgraded to “Top Pick for 2020” and “Outperform” by Credit Suisse (TheFly)
  2. US and China agree to phase one trade deal, December Chinese tariffs canceled (Fox Business)
  3. 100 Books Everyone Should Consider Reading (AOM)
  4. Fed Statement on Repo Operations (NY Fed)
  5. Fed Aims a Half-Trillion Dollar Liquidity Hose at Year-End Risks (Bloomberg)
  6. Johnson secures crushing UK election victory (Financial Times)
  7. Watch Out, China: Why Investors May Flock to India Next (Institutional Investor)
  8. Shares and sterling soar as trade and Brexit fog lifts (Reuters)
  9. Trump says Britain, U.S. free to strike new trade deal after Brexit (Reuters)
  10. Are Energy Stocks Hot Again? (Oil Price)
  11. Emerging Markets Cut Rates With Russia Following Turkey, Brazil (Bloomberg)
  12. Happy birthday, Taylor Swift! (New York Post)
  13. The Hedge Fund CQS Is Looking at Unloved Parts of the Credit Market for 2020 (Barron’s)
  14. Big Pharma’s Coming Back in 2020. ()
  15. Navy SEAL: How To Pick Yourself Back Up From Failure (Investor’s Business Daily)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Thursday…

  1.  Trump meets with top trade advisers to strategize before major China tariff deadline (Fox Business)
  2. Saudi Aramco touches $2tn valuation on second day of trading (Financial Times)
  3. Why Exxon’s Stock Could Hit $100 In 2020 (Oil Price)
  4. The “Crazy Rich Asians” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results) (ZeroHedge)
  5. Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm steps down as CEO (Financial Times)
  6. U.S. producer prices unchanged; underlying inflation soft (Reuters)
  7. Oil prices rise on OPEC deficit forecast (Reuters)
  8. The Fed Did Everything It Needed To By Doing Nothing (Barron’s)
  9. The Fed could consider buying other short-term Treasuries, Powell says (Barron’s)
  10. Supercar maker McLaren to skip electric vehicles. Here’s why — and what it will build instead. (USA Today)
  11. Cisco says its new silicon, software, router products will ‘change the economics of the Internet’ (Yahoo! Finance)
  12. Apple (AAPL) China iPhone Shipments in Nov Declined Sharply – Credit Suisse (Street Insider)
  13. Japan and the Art of Making the Same Mistakes Over and Over Again (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Britain Votes in an Election That Will Set the Course of Brexit (Wall Street Journal)
  15. US weekly jobless claims race to a more than 2-year high (CNBC)