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)

Be in the know. 17 key reads for Thursday…

  1. 13 Stock Ideas From Top Value Managers (Barron’s)
  2. Gilead’s Remdesivir Is a Rare Example of Foresight in This Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  3. What’s Good for Banks Isn’t Necessarily Good for Bankers (Wall Street Journal)
  4. Deals Aren’t Dead. Here Are 12 Stocks That Could Become Buyout Targets (Barron’s)
  5. Green Shoots for the Economy and 5 More Things to Know (Barron’s)
  6. As Stock Buybacks Disappear, Dividends Stand to Gain (Barron’s)
  7. As States Reopen, Home Purchase Applications Rise for the Fourth Week in a Row (Barron’s)
  8. Mnuchin Seeks to Assuage Investors After Powell’s Gloomy Outlook (Bloomberg)
  9. Trump Says He Disagrees With Fauci’s Concerns Over Reopening (Bloomberg)
  10. Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down state’s ‘stay-at-home’ order (CNBC)
  11. A London-based trading house bought 250,000 barrels of oil during the historic plunge below $0, and likely made a fortune. (Business Insider)
  12. U.S. weekly jobless benefits to stay elevated as coronavirus layoffs widen (Reuters)
  13. AbbVie’s Potential Is ‘Underappreciated,’ Says Morgan Stanley Analyst (Benzinga)
  14. The Swedish Model Trades More Disease for Less Economic Damage (Bloomberg)
  15. Oil Price Crash Could Hurt Trump in Texas, Help in Pennsylvania (Bloomberg)
  16. New York and New Jersey Start to Reopen Their Economies (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Fed TALF Revision Could Help Clear CLO Logjam (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Monday…

  1. PulteGroup (PHM) says recent sales trends have been more encouraging (Street Insider)
  2. Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead? (AQR)
  3. Berkshire Hathaway Stock Has Rarely Been This Cheap (Barron’s)
  4. Marriott, Cisco, DraftKings, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week (Barron’s)
  5. 9 Value Stocks Investors Are Buying While Buffett Waits (Barron’s)
  6. Under virus pressure, Saudi Aramco may cut government payout (Reuters)
  7. AMC Entertainment’s stock soars after report Amazon has expressed buyout interest (Yahoo! Finance)
  8. One Sign That Outperforming Active Managers Will Continue to Outperform (Institutional Investor)
  9. Coronavirus crisis: does value investing still make sense? (Financial Times)
  10. America’s Smallest Stocks Are Staging a Comeback (Wall Street Journal)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Shanghai Disneyland tickets sell out as park prepares to reopen (Fox Business)
  2. Southwest to raise $815 million through sale and leaseback of 20 planes (Reuters)
  3. The 22 Most Expensive Homes in the World for Sale (Robb Report)
  4. Order An Entire Meal From Texas Roadhouse And We’ll Guess How Old You Are (BuzzFeed) (It said I was 19!)
  5. R.I. teen creates non-profit org. to provide smart tech to patients isolated from loved ones (OANN)
  6. Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 (RollingStone)
  7. Why Ford Took The Bronco Off The Market – And Why It’s Bringing It Back (digg)
  8. Automobili Pininfarina Is Speeding Into a New Era of Hypercars (Maxim)
  9. This Weekend: NASCAR Makes Virtual Return to Historic North Wilkesboro Speedway (The Drive)
  10. Episode 998: Journey To The Center Of The Fed (NPR Planet Money)
  11. Bad Arguments and How to Avoid Them (Farnam Street)
  12. 7 Early Attempts at Self-Driving Cars (Mental Floss)
  13. MiB: Jim Bianco of Bianco Research (Bloomberg)
  14. Relocated UFC 249 could ‘bring sense of normalcy to people’ (Fox Business)
  15. Epidemics in World History, With Frank M. Snowden (CFR)
  16. Oil is the Comeback King (Futures Mag)
  17. The One Factor That Will Determine The Size Of India’s LNG Boom (OilPrice)
  18. Sam Zell: Nice Distressed Real Estate Bargains Are Ahead (Chief Investment Officer)
  19. Lawmakers urge punishment for banks that won’t back drillers (Pensions & Investments)
  20. Ferrari sales and other Luxury Cars beat Estimates as Global Car sales plummet (Luxuo)

Be in the know. 20 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Guy Fieri raised $20 million for restaurant workers amid pandemic (New York Post)
  2. Battered Builder Stocks Could Be Hot Properties Again (Barron’s)
  3. A Stock to Bet on a Recovery in Gambling (Barron’s)
  4. 9 Value Stocks Investors Are Buying While Buffett Waits (Barron’s)
  5. Walmart and other superstores continue coronavirus-fueled hiring spree (New York Post)
  6. Mad Dash for Small-Business Loans Slows Down to Glacial Pace (Bloomberg)
  7. When United Pawned Old Jets, Bond Traders Sent a Stark Warning (Bloomberg)
  8. Fresh Coronavirus Wave Won’t Require Shutdown, White House Says (Bloomberg)
  9. ‘Survival Mode’: How Billionaire Bosses Tackle the Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  10. Bain Capital makes $1bn bet on Japan’s nursing homes (Financial Times)
  11. ‘We’ve seen the lows in March’ for stocks, says man who called Dow 20,000 in 2015, ‘and we will never see those lows again’ (MarketWatch)
  12. New study claims vitamin D deficiency may impact coronavirus mortality rates (MarketWatch)
  13. Royal Caribbean’s stock rallies after COVID-19-related business and liquidity update (MarketWatch)
  14. Elon Musk Says He’ll Be Working on the Tesla Assembly Line Today (Futurism)
  15. Leading Cause of Death in U.S.? Hint: It Isn’t Covid-19 (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Rolls-Royce Cullinan: A Bid for Rich Millennial Buyers (Wall Street Journal)
  17. If Charlie Munger Didn’t Quit When He Was Divorced, Broke, and Burying His 9 Year Old Son, You Have No Excuse (joshuakennon)
  18. Ariel Investments Chairman John Rogers: We’re buying stocks, ‘leaning in looking for opportunities’ (Yahoo! Finance)
  19. An Apology for Small-Cap Value (Verdad)
  20. Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Transcript 2020 (Rev)

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