Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. February Expiration Week: S&P 500 Up 12 of Last 14 (Almanac Trader)
  2. How Mega-Influencer Emily Ratajkowski Turns Obsessive Fans Into A Booming Business (Forbes)
  3. Top 11 Must See Yachts At The 2020 Miami Yacht Show (Forbes)
  4. Trump administration eyes 10% middle-class tax cut proposal (Reuters)
  5. Bloomberg Spent More Than $1 Million On That Barrage Of Instagram Memes (Forbes)
  6. Chemours Co (NYSE:CC): McIntyre 4Q19 commentary & long thesis (ValueWalk)
  7. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  8. Barron’s Picks And Pans: Berkshire Hathaway, Bitcoin, Roku And More ()
  9. ‘No Time To Die’: Hear Billie Eilish’s New ‘James Bond’ Theme Song and Watch a New Trailer (Men’s Journal)
  10. 2021 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster Has World’s Fastest Convertible Roof (Maxim)
  11. Banksy artwork pops up just in time for Valentine’s Day (Mashable)
  12. Is Trump’s Classical-Architecture Policy Authoritarian? (Manhattan Institute)
  13. Elon Musk Says He’s About to Deliver the Future of High-Speed Internet (Inc.)
  14. Coronavirus drug could start production this month: Peter Navarro (Fox Business)
  15. The Perils of “Survivorship Bias” (Scientific American)

 

 

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Saturday…

  1. 5 Blue Chip Stocks in Wall Street’s Penalty Box Have Massive Upside Potential Bottom ofTop of FormBottom of Form (24/7 Wall Street)
  2. Warren Buffett Is One of a Kind. What That Will Mean for Berkshire Hathaway When He’s Gone. (Barron’s)
  3. Warren Buffett more than doubled its investment in Occidental Petroleum (OXY) In Q4 (MarketWatch)
  4. Musk’s Boring Co. Celebrates Breakthrough at Las Vegas Tunnel (Bloomberg)
  5. Boeing Argues It Doesn’t Need to Move 737 Max Wiring Bundles (Bloomberg)
  6. Short-Sellers Give Oil a Break Following Coronavirus Concerns (Bloomberg)
  7. Kraft Heinz Stockholders Find Good News Can Be Bad News (Barron’s)
  8. Hedge-Fund Investor Dan Loeb Bought Stock in Amazon and 2 More Companies (Barron’s)
  9. Consumer sentiment hits highest level since 2018 despite coronavirus outbreak (Business Insider)
  10. White House considering tax incentive for more Americans to buy stocks, sources say (CNBC)
  11. Stocks are near record highs, but people are still not investing (CNN Business)
  12. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Ken Griffin, Dan Loeb, Ray Dalio, Davidson Kempner, PCB Bancorp (PCB), Taylor Morrison Home Corp (TMHC), and More (Insider Monkey)
  13. Hedge Fund ‘Cubs’ Share Information — And Alpha (Institutional Investor)
  14. An Astronaut’s Guide to Mental Models (Farnam Street)
  15. Brookfield: inside the $500bn secretive investment firm (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 12 key reads for Friday…

  1. Top financiers want Biden to drop out so Bloomberg can win: ’He has no chance’ (Fox Business)
  2. Oil prices steady but set for weekly gain on supply cut optimism (Business Insider)
  3. How a Small-Cap Fund Finds Exceptional Growth Overseas (Barron’s)
  4. Labor Force Participation Rate Mystery: Why Have So Many Americans Stopped Working? (Investor’s Business Daily)
  5. Veteran strategist eyes health care and financials in anticipation of ‘choppy and frustrating’ markets (MarketWatch)
  6. FC’s celebrity investors have a chokehold on $300M dividend (New York Post)
  7. Judy Shelton, Trump’s Fed Nominee, Faces Bipartisan Skepticism (New York Times)
  8. Doubting America Can Cost You a Lot of Money (Bloomberg)
  9. EXCLUSIVE: Kudlow reveals when middle class can expect ‘tax cuts 2.0’ (Fox Business)
  10. Investor complacency sets in while coronavirus spreads (Financial Times)
  11. Warren Buffett loves using Valentine’s Day to explain why See’s Candies is his ‘dream business’ (Business Insider)
  12. Value Investing’s Time to Shine Again Is Approaching (Bloomberg)

Be in the know. 10 key reads for Thursday…

  1. Eight Stocks Wall Street Loves for Valentine’s Day (Barron’s)
  2. What Denny’s CEO Tells Himself In The Mirror Every Day (Investor’s Business Daily)
  3. Charlie Munger Talks About Chinese Companies, Poor Investment Choices, And Why He Would Never Buy Tesla Stock (Benzinga)
  4. The Chris Janson “Good Vibes” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)… (ZeroHedge)
  5. Kraft Heinz’s Earnings Were Only OK. Why Investors Should Be Happy. (Barron’s)
  6. Value-Oriented Dividend Stocks Will Pay Investors Who Wait, Strategist Says (Barron’s)
  7. Time for a cut? OPEC Sees Coronavirus Weighing Heavily on Oil Demand (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Hedging Strategy Likely Exacerbated Oil’s Fall (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Trump’s Rosy Economic Growth Forecast Isn’t Crazy (Bloomberg)
  10. 5 Contrarian Dividend Stocks to Buy as Market Rips to All-Time Highs (24/7 Wall Street)

Be in the know. 12 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Energy Stocks Might Finally Have Hit Bottom (Barron’s)
  2. Americans Joining Workforce at Record Rate (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Mike Bloomberg Wants to Build an Influencer Army (Vanity Fair)
  4. Moore Capital ‘Didn’t Try That Hard’ at Succession (Institutional Investor)
  5. 20VC: Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks on The Most Important Skill An Investor Can Have, The Right Way To Think About Price Sensitivity & Where Are We At Today; Take More Risk or Less? (20 min VC)
  6. How One Value Investor Is Weathering the Strategy’s Underperformance (Institutional Investor)
  7. As OPEC+ Reels From China Virus, Libya Threatens Knockout Punch (Bloomberg)
  8. AbbVie Jumps on Strong Earnings. That’s Not the Only Reason. (Barron’s)
  9. The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World. (Wall Street Journal)
  10. FedEx to Start Mixing Express and Ground Operations (Wall Street Journal)
  11. Week Before Presidents’ Day Bullish since 1990 (Almanac Trader)
  12. 2020 Ford GT Adds Power And Turns Heads With Stunning ‘Liquid Carbon’ Edition (Maxim)

Be in the know. 12 key reads for Friday…

  1. Kraft Heinz Could Have Bad News. It’s Time to Buy the Stock. (Barron’s)
  2. The No. 1 Biotech Stock Just Squashed Earnings Views — Here’s Why (Investor’s Business Daily)
  3. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Steve Cohen, Bill Ackman, Laurion Capital, Alden Global Capital, Black Diamond Therapeutics Inc (BDTX), SkyWest, Inc. (SKYW), and More (Insider Monkey)
  4. Trump, Xi Reaffirm Commitment to Phase-One Trade Deal (Bloomberg)
  5. The ‘Dividend Aristocrats’ Add 7 New Members (Barron’s)
  6. Honeywell’s Chief Technology Officer Explains the Significance of 5G (Barron’s)
  7. Elliott Management amasses $2.5B stake in bruised SoftBank (New York Post)
  8. U.S. Jobs Top Estimates With 225,000 Gain, Wages Accelerate (Bloomberg)
  9. The Big Dirty Secret Behind Wind Power (Bloomberg)
  10. Encouraging banks to tap Fed discount window could prevent another repo market freeze, says Quarles (MarketWatch)
  11. Peak Shale Will Send Oil Prices Sky High (OilPrice)
  12. Natural Gas: Capital Retreat To Send Prices 50% Higher (Seeking Alpha)