Be in the know. 20 key reads for Thursday…

  1. The Kanye West, “Drive Slow” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)… (ZeroHedge)
  2. Target says same-store sales rose more than 7% so far in first quarter as digital sales double (CNBC)
  3. Stocks Still Make Sense for The Long Term (Barron’s)
  4. The Next Coronavirus Package Might Not Pass Until June (Barron’s)
  5. Restaurant Chains Received Many of the Biggest Paycheck Protection Loans (Barron’s)
  6. Texas Instruments Bets Big on Shelf Life (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Private Equity to Get Squeezed Out of Another Stimulus Program (Bloomberg)
  8. Kuwait Cutting Oil Output Ahead of Schedule, Minister Says (Bloomberg)
  9. Germophobes Shunning Public Transit Give Carmakers a Bit of Hope (Bloomberg)
  10. Harvard Professor Reaps 17,000% Return on Early Moderna Bet (Bloomberg)
  11. Hot Pharma Stock Rallies After Strong Earnings (Investor’s Business Daily)
  12. What to Watch: The Return of Michael Jordan, the End of ‘Homeland’ (Wall Street Journal)
  13. 565 Americans Have Lost Their Job For Every Confirmed COVID-19 Death In The US (ZeroHedge)
  14. Las Vegas Sands predicts speedy recovery in Asia on pent-up gambling demand (StreetInsider)
  15. RBC Capital Handicaps Gilead Sciences (GILD) Upcoming Remdesivir Data (StreetInsider)
  16. 5 Buy-Rated Oil Stocks Trading Under $10 With Massive Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
  17. Steve Forbes: How Trump can help our oil industry now and skip Pelosi’s stall tactics (Fox Business)
  18. The Curious Case of Dmitry Balyasny (Institutional Investor)
  19. The Chinese Trick That Could Save Oil (Yahoo! Finance)
  20. Oil jumps 25%, extending Wednesday’s rally as traders bet on US production cuts (CNBC)

Be in the know. 30 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Seoul’s Full Cafes, Apple Store Lines Show Mass Testing Success (Bloomberg)
  2. Bank Earnings Were Terrible. It’s Time to Buy the Banks. (Barron’s)
  3. Energy Hedge Fund That Shorted Oil Sees Chance for $100 a Barrel (Bloomberg)
  4. Charlie Munger: ‘The Phone Is Not Ringing Off the Hook’ (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Opinion: Vitamin D and Coronavirus Disparities (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Opening Up America Again (CDC/White House PDF Plan)
  7. Here’s why sauerkraut and kimchi sales have surged during the coronavirus (New York Post)
  8. Coronavirus Ushered in Medicine’s Digital Revolution (Barron’s)
  9. Big Pharma Sees Its Strengths Surface ()
  10. Reasons to Gobble Up Kraft Heinz’s Battered Shares (Barron’s)
  11. 3 Former United Technologies Stocks That Are Ready to Fly (Barron’s)
  12. Union Pacific Sees Biggest Insider Stock Buy in Years (Barron’s)
  13. Trump Announces $19 Billion Relief Program for Farmers (Wall Street Journal)
  14. Here Are the Companies Getting Federal Funds for Covid Relief (Bloomberg)
  15. ‘MacGyvering’: A Modern ‘Can-Do’ Approach To Bad Situations (Wall Street Journal)
  16. Wells Fargo, J.C. Penney, Amazon.com: Stocks That Defined the Week (Wall Street Journal)
  17. Procter & Gamble Posts Biggest U.S. Sales Gain in Decades (Wall Street Journal)
  18. Leaked Research: This Drug May Be Saving COVID Patients’ Lives (Futurism)
  19. Coronavirus latest: Hong Kong shows no need for total lockdown, says study (Financial Times)
  20. The Day of Reckoning for Private Equity (Institutional Investor)
  21. Warren Buffett’s financial crisis bailouts inspired the US government’s ‘big 4’ airline rescue deals (Business Insider)
  22. Pro golf plans to be the first major sport to return during the coronavirus pandemic (CNBC)
  23. Macy’s reportedly looking to use real estate to come up with cash during coronavirus pandemic (CNBC)
  24. Fed Says It Will Disclose Borrower Information in Crisis Lending (Bloomberg)
  25. These Are the Drugs and Vaccines That Might End the Coronavirus Pandemic (Bloomberg)
  26. Google seeks to launch a debit card with banks (USA Today)
  27. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Key to Innovation (Farnam Street)
  28. A Primer On Reading Annual Reports (docdroid)
  29. Have Small Value Stocks Become a Bargain? (Morningstar)
  30. Gilead increases enrollment target for remdesivir trial in COVID-19 patients (Reuters)

Be in the know. 25 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Car-rental firm Hertz seeks coronavirus bailout (New York Post)
  2. Fed Gives Banks a Break to Keep Markets Calm (New York Times)
  3. Disney, McDonald’s share secret recipes to cook in quarantine (USA Today)
  4. Where to Look in China’s Data Dump for Any Signs of a Rebound (Bloomberg)
  5. Jeff Bezos Wants to Test All Amazon Employees for Covid-19 (Bloomberg)
  6. The Fed Loves Main Street as Much as Wall Street This Time (Bloomberg)
  7. Some Companies Are Looking Cheap. That Could Drive a Wave of M&A. (Barron’s)
  8. J&J, P&G, Buck the Trend by Raising Dividends (Barron’s)
  9. Fear Is Down, but We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet (Barron’s)
  10. Record Amount of Risky Debt Is Coming Due (Barron’s)
  11. Buy Stocks Now, Investing Legend Burton Malkiel Says (Barron’s)
  12. Jobless claims total 5.245 million as 22 million positions have been lost in a month due to coronavirus (CNBC)
  13. Larry Fink: Coronavirus low last month may have been the market bottom (CNBC)
  14. ‘The shopping list is being readied’: Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi are scouting for cheap investments after the coronavirus sell-off (Business Insider)
  15. Gilead (GILD) Said to Hold Talks to Buy Stake in Arcus Biosciences (RCUS) – Bloomberg (Street Insider)
  16. Working From Home Permanently Could Rise 100% and These Stocks May Benefit (24/7 Wall Street)
  17. Options markets send cautiously bullish signal on U.S. stock rally (Reuters)
  18. U.S. opposes general allocation of Special Drawing Rights to IMF members (Reuters)
  19. States paying extra $600 unemployment aid (Fox Business)
  20. Mainstream Investors Might Get Access to Alts, But They Won’t Get Alpha (Institutional Investor)
  21. Hedgie with a ‘higher purpose’ to run world’s biggest sovereign fund (Financial Times)
  22. Dalio Says Investors ‘Crazy’ to Hold Government Bonds Now (Dalio Says Investors ‘Crazy’ to Hold Government Bonds Now (Yahoo! Finance)
  23. Warren Buffett will ‘let everybody know’ once he invests the bulk of Berkshire Hathaway’s $128 billion cash pile, Bill Ackman says. (Business Insider)
  24. Billionaire bond king Jeff Gundlach sent a bizarre tweet predicting the end of the ‘You blow dry my hair and I’ll blow dry your hair’ economy. (Business Insider)
  25. Coronavirus Closures Froze Swaths of U.S. Economy in March (Wall Street Journal)