Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
August 30, 2015

This post is an excerpt from the Pro Trader and Monthly Investor MacroLiquidity report. Subscriber links are below the text. The FOMC meeting minutes are a key instrument of official Fed propaganda. They show how the Fed wants you to

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It appears a combination of Stan Fischer’s ‘September is still on the table’ hawkishness (among others at Jackson Hole) and the “promise” once again that China will not intervene in the stock market anymore has taken all the exuberance out of last week’s epic

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Insider buying increased last week with insiders buying $170.5 million of stock compared to $121.15 million in the week prior. Selling on the other hand declined sharply with insiders selling $899.89 million of stock last week compared to $2.12 billion in the week

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Mega-conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B) reported an almost $4.5 billion stake in Houston-based refiner Phillips 66 (PSX) on Friday, as Warren Buffett’s firm boosts its holdings in the energy sector. Regulatory filings show that Berkshire had upped its stake to 58

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During the session on Monday, the Retail Sales numbers come out of Germany, along with CPI numbers in the European Union. With this, we will focus on a lot of European trading during the session, although we cannot forget the

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At the trough of the recent correction, which was underscored by a brief but sharp -1,100 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Dow had temporarily corrected by -16.2% from its peak in May, earlier this year. Whether

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As I have said many times…The 200 Day Moving Average is the line of delineation of bears and bulls. If the Nasdaq and SPY can get back above this level with some conviction and stay there there is a good

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First it was Germany who redeemed 120 tons of physical gold in 2014; then it was the Netherlands who “secretly” redomiciled 122 tons of gold; then this past May, we learned that Austria would be the third “core” European nation to repatriate most of its offshore

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Over the past several weeks I’ve been chronicling the change in sentiment on the Twitter stream as it lead the market lower. In early July sentiment turned from bullish to neutral. By the end of the month sentiment had clearly turned  bearish evidenced

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In order to understand what the intrinsic value or fair value of a common stock is, you must think like a long-term business owner and not like a stock trader.  Additionally, you must think like a business owner that has

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