Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
March 9, 2018

Note: The NYSE has suspended their NYSE Member Firm margin data as of December 2017. We have replaced our Margin Debt data with FINRA data, which includes data for all firms, not just NYSE member firms.  The New York Stock Exchange

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Chris Temple joins me today to recap the positive jobs number and the impact it is having by moving stocks, yields and commodities higher. This is a situation where good news is taken as a reason to buy while also

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Bitcoins are now considered commodities. Some disagree. Please consider Federal Judge Rules Virtual Currencies Are Commodities Under the Commodity Exchange Act.   On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New

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Talking Points: The US Dollar slipped after the February NFP report, drawing into question how intense inflation pressures actually are; the February CPI report will shine light onto this topic on Tuesday. Now that the Bank of Japan has signaled

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Heading into this morning’s payrolls data, a few traders noted the sudden plunge in liquidity (which is normal) but chaotic noise in equity futures trading and even more so in VIX. As soon as the data hit, VIX suddenly flash-crashed

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In commemoration of the bull market’s 9th anniversary, we wanted to take a brief moment to highlight some of the equity market’s biggest winners and losers over the last nine years. We’ll start with the losers. Within the current universe

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Over the last five trading days, performance of banking stocks remained optimistic. Rebound in trading activities (after dismal 2017 performance) is perhaps the primary reason for this bullish price performance. Banks like Citigroup C and JPMorgan JPM expect trading revenues to improve in first-quarter

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At least one market has the ability to go lower and stay lower, Next week looks quite risky for these critters.

There’s just one more hurdle to clear in what was, to say the least, an extraordinary week for geopolitics and markets. Say what you will about Trump, but one thing you can’t say is that he doesn’t keep everyone on

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