Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
January 8, 2018

As expected, the Federal Reserve reported today that consumer credit expanded by an unusually large amount in November. Non-revolving debt rose by $16.6 billion, which is only slightly more than the recent average, and less than the average flow three

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The Chart of the Day belongs to Caterpillar (CAT). I found heavy machinery stock by using Barchart to sort today’s 52 Week High list first by the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then again for

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Too good to be true? More gains for the stock market. It feels unstoppable. The PMO index is at its max. In a normal cycle, this is usually when I start thinking about lightening up a bit and raising some

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Sam Lee wrote a very awesome piece last year titled “Waiting for the Market to Crash is a Terrible Strategy“. The basic gist of the post was that you shouldn’t wait around for market crashes trying to time when you

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After a wild few weeks of trading, natural gas prices seemed to settle down a bit today. The February contract traded in an 8.5-cent range through the day today, which is the smallest intraday range for the prompt month natural

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The bulls have yet to see a single day in the red so far. There is so much green across the board, that the market is once again, becoming very easy.  I’m a little tepid here. I added some positions

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With the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, recharacterization of a Roth Conversion is no longer allowed. This begins with tax year 2018. Briefly, recharacterization of a Roth conversion is (used to be) useful if

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Remember that piece of sh*t Steinhoff position the ECB had on its books thanks to CSPP? That would be the one we wrote about last month in “Fallen Angels And Draghi’s Steinhoff Demons.” Amid questions about whether Steinhoff’s trials and tribulations underscore

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According to the Census Bureau, US companies have been importing foreign goods at a relentless pace. In estimates released last week, seasonally-adjusted US imports jumped to $204 billion in November 2017. That’s a record high finally surpassing the $200 billion

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Let’s take a close look at the latest employment report numbers on Full and Part-Time Employment. Buried near the bottom of Table A-9 of the government’s Employment Situation Summary are the numbers for Full- and Part-Time Workers, with 35-or-more hours

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