Be in the know. 12 key reads for Monday…

  1. Warren Buffett may have bought back more than $5 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock in recent weeks (Business Insider)
  2. Barron’s Daily: Merger Monday Is Back (Barron’s)
  3. Stocks are resilient because investors have been braced for much worse COVID-19 news, says strategist (MarketWatch)
  4. Pfizer, BioNTech stocks surge after COVID-19 vaccine candidates get Fast Track designation (MarketWatch)
  5. Income rates: How much you need to make to be in the top 1% in every state (USA Today)
  6. Blank-Check Boom Gets Boost From Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
  7. Wall Street’s Earnings Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Turbulence (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Are Banks Afraid of Covid-19? Watch How Much They Set Aside for Loan Losses This Week (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Bank Earnings: Main Street Blues vs. Wall Street Boom (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Fed’s Support for Corporate Debt Has Been a Wall Street Bonanza (Bloomberg)
  11. These ignored stocks may be poised to rebound (Yahoo! Finance)
  12. Alibaba’s Jack Ma sells $9.6B worth of shares, stake dips to 4.8% (Fox Business)

The AC/DC “Back in Black” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…

This week we chose AC/DC’s “Back in Black” as our theme song for the Stock Market.  Of the major indices, so far the Nasdaq is the first one to make it out of the Red and Back in Black: Continue reading “The AC/DC “Back in Black” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…”

The Carly Pearce “I Hope You’re Happy Now” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…

Our Stock Market theme song for this week is, “I Hope You’re Happy Now” by Country Star – Carly Pearce.  The applicable lyrics we’ll dissect this week are as follows: Continue reading “The Carly Pearce “I Hope You’re Happy Now” Stock Market (and Sentiment Results)…”

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)