Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
April 16, 2018

The tech startup boom has been one of the most important and visible economic “growth engines” of the past half-decade. The boom was spurred, in large part, by the success and excitement over Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and similar companies, which

Read more

The prompt month May natural gas contract rose a bit more than half a percent today as the summer contracts caught more of a bid. After gapping up weakly, prompt prices were unable to continue much higher, settling right at

Read more

Recent fears, warranted or not about the potential for retaliatory liquidation by China of its US Treasury holdings appear to have been exaggerated because according to the latest TIC data released, the trade-war enemy added $8.5 billion in TSYs in February

Read more

Shares of Acacia Communications (ACIA) and Lumentum Holdings (LITE) both fell hard today. This is because one of their largest potential customers, China’s ZTE has been banned. What is going on? The U.S. Department of Commerce is banning American companies

Read more

The U.S. stock markets have been witnessing volatility since February 2018. In fact, two major stock indexes — Dow 30 and S&P 500 — are lingering in negative territory so far this year. Notably, a series of political issues have

Read more

Economist David Rosenberg expects the US dollar to fall. His Recommendation is to buy commodities  Tell me the USD does not have considerable more downside potential. Buy gold. Buy oil. Buy commodities. pic.twitter.com/msoT1ZCSyQ — David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) April 16, 2018

Read more

Note: With the release of March Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index, we’ve updated this commentary to include the latest Real Retail Sales. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague

Read more

The healthcare sector is my favorite sector to invest in, both long and short term. Long term, demographics practically ensure that the sector will remain healthy (pun intended) for years to come. Ten-thousand baby boomers turn 65 every day. A

Read more

Are governments making promises about pensions that they might not be able to keep? According to an analysis by the World Economic Forum (WEF), there was a combined retirement savings gap in excess of $70 trillion in 2015, spread between

Read more