Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
December 9, 2015

by Derryl Hermanutz Many small businesses that pay minimum wage — convenience stores and other independent retailers, little restaurants and fast food outlets, etc. — can’t afford to raise the wages they pay. These businesses are competing in an actual

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Recap from November Picks Our Most Attractive Stocks (-2.4%) underperformed the S&P 500 (-1.1%) last month. Most Attractive Large Cap stock Goodyear Tire & Rubber (GT) gained 6% and Most Attractive Small Cap stock Orbotech (ORBK) was up 24%. Overall,

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GBPUSD: Having rallied strongly to reverse its three-day weakness to close higher on Wednesday, GBPUSD faces further bullish offensive. This development leaves more upside threats likely towards the 1.5200 level. Support lies at the 1.5100 level where a break will

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What do Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the Eurozone have in common? Their central banks have all cut interest rates in 2015. The ECB was the latest to join the easy

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Apple’s (AAPL) future iPad sales in China is threatened by another company. Aside from Xiaomi’s sub-$200 Mi Pad 2, Amazon’s (AMZN) Fire 7 Android tablet is now going to challenge the iPad in China. Amazon has partnered up with Baidu (BIDU)

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An Exhausted Market… It’s becoming harder to find a scapegoat for the market’s decline.Stocks have suffered four out of six losing sessions and three consecutive down days. There were no important economic data releases today. This market is falling due to

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How Did the Stock Market Do Today? Dow Jones: 17,492.30; -75.70; -0.43% S&P 500: 2,047.62; -15.97;-0.77% Nasdaq: 5,022.87; -75.38;-1.48% The Dow Jones Industrial Average today (Wednesday) fell 75 points and the S&P 500 fell into negative territory for the year as traders kept a close

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With Prices Below $50, what is a stripper to do?  With OPEC breaking down and any kind of coordination among its members on price cuts looking increasingly unlikely, it now appears that oil prices could remain below $50 a barrel

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Podcast: Play in new window | Play in new window (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB) DOW – 75 = 17,492 SPX – 15 – 2047 NAS – 75 = 5022 10 YR YLD – .03 = 2.21% OIL – .28 = 37.24 GOLD – 2.10

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The lead players Wednesday starred “Da Boyz” in the trading pits at the NYMEX crude oil futures. There traders often play a game of posting offers only to withdraw them when someone tries to accept. In other words, they game the system.

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