The Grace Potter “Falling or Flying” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…

This week’s pick for “theme song of the week” – to embody the sentiment of the Stock Market – is Grace Potter’s “Falling or Flying.”  After a 6% intra-week drawdown last week, this week we’ve made up for lost ground, and more…

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Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. 21 Cheap Stocks With Above-Average Growth Prospects (Barron’s)
  2. Global Stocks Advance on Signs of Slowing Virus as Powell Interview Adds Cheer (Barron’s)
  3. Moderna Reports Positive Vaccine News (Barron’s)
  4. Fed’s Powell tells ‘60 Minutes’ he’s not out of ammunition to fight the recession (MarketWatch)
  5. Work-from-home productivity pickup has tech CEOs predicting many employees will never come back to the office (MarketWatch)
  6. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Cisco, Gilead, Netflix, Wayfair And More (Yahoo! Finance)
  7. Hertz appoints new CEO to lead car rental giant (Fox Business)
  8. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson ‘very proud’ of his daughter joining WWE New York Post)
  9. Dan Bilzerian Pushes Party Brand From a Social Distance (Bloomberg)
  10. Brent at one-month high, U.S. oil tops $31 as restrictions ease (Street Insider)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Newly Flush PNC Could Kick Off the Next Round of Bank M&A (Barron’s)
  2. Oil Market Dazzled With a Swift Delivery of Supply Cuts (Bloomberg)
  3. Slash tax rate in half for corporations returning to US, White House adviser suggests (New York Post)
  4. McConnell says next stimulus must have coronavirus liability protections (New York Post)
  5. Appaloosa buys Twitter, Netflix stakes, exits Caesars, cuts Facebook position (TheFly)
  6. TSA Preparing to Check Passenger Temperatures at Airports Amid Coronavirus Concerns (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Wells Fargo Has Lost $220 Billion in Market Value Under Fed Cap (Bloomberg)
  8. Inside the Science and Companies Racing to Develop a Covid-19 Vaccine (Barron’s)
  9. John Malone Has a Great Investing Record. Here’s How to Play Along. (Barron’s)
  10. How Investors Should Evaluate Energy Bonds — And the Funds That Own Them (Barron’s)
  11. This Economist Sees a ‘Regime Change’ Favoring Stockpickers (Barron’s)
  12. Assessing the stock market after one of the fastest declines and subsequent comebacks in history (CNBC)
  13. On Furlough From the Kingdom, Disney Workers Try to Keep the Magic Alive (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Michael Jordan Didn’t Manage People, He Lit Them on Fire (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Car Makers See Chinese Market Picking Up (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Bill Murray drinks, jokes with Guy Fieri on Nacho Showdown: ‘Truth is, he’s a redhead’ (USA Today)
  17. Google Antitrust Lawsuit Being Drafted by U.S Justice Department (Bloomberg)
  18. Next coronavirus aid package expected to become reality ‘in June at the earliest,’ as House passes its bill (MarketWatch)
  19. Is this the pullback you’ve been waiting for? (QuantifiableEdges)
  20. JPMorgan Bets on a Dash for the Suburbs (Institutional Investor)
  21. What Happens to Stocks After a Big Up Month? (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  22. Bill Miller doesn’t see market as ‘dramatically overvalued,’ says Amazon could double in 3 years (CNBC)
  23. Loeb’s Third Point Builds Stake in Disney, Exits Campbell Soup (Bloomberg)
  24. Saudi wealth fund snaps up $7.7bn of blue-chip stocks (Financial Times)
  25. How bank hedging jolted investors into talk of negative rates (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Friday…

  1. Value Stocks Look Cheaper Than Ever. How to Play a Rebound. (Barron’s)
  2. ‘Stealth Bailout’ Shovels Millions of Dollars to Oil Companies (Bloomberg)
  3. TikTok Raises Profile As Digital Ad Rival To Snap, Facebook, Google (Investor’s Business Daily)
  4. The Oil Market Is Changing Its Tune (Barron’s)
  5. GE Stock Dropped Again. Here’s What’s Going Right. (Barron’s)
  6. Factory Output in China Surged in April (Barron’s)
  7. NYSE Will Partially Reopen Its Trading Floor (Barron’s)
  8. Meet the trikini, beach fashion’s answer to coronavirus (New York Post)
  9. McDonald’s Details What Dining In Will Look Like (New York Times)
  10. Elon Musk’s Boring Company completes second tunnel in Las Vegas (USA Today)
  11. Wealthy Travelers Are Starting to Book Year-End Vacations (Bloomberg)
  12. Are We Asking Too Much of Testing? (Bloomberg)
  13. Drive-in theaters have become a safe haven for moviegoers. Here’s what it’s like to visit one (CNBC)
  14. Who’s on The Hook for Skipped Mortgage Payments? (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Economic Shock of Virus Hit Lower-Income Households Harder, Fed Finds (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Time for GE to Bring Good Things Back to Life (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Oil back at early April highs as demand shows signs of picking up (Street Insider)
  18. PPP Loans Under $2 Million Get A Significant Waiver From SBA (Yahoo! Finance)
  19. Ross to Bartiromo: Taiwan manufacturer hopes to bring supply chain to this state (Fox Business)
  20. Investors warn Covid-19 crisis is paving the way for inflation (Financial Times)