Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
April 17, 2018

from the New York Fed The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data released the March 2018 SCE Labor Market Survey, which shows a decline in the proportion of individuals who searched for a job, and in the

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The Wall Street is juggling with various macro and micro issues at the moment, including U.S.-China trade dispute, Facebook data breach, apprehensions about three or more rate hikes by the Fed this year and the recent airstrike on Syria. All

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Following directly on from the discussion last week about capital formation in the resource industry, our in-house mining expert Jamie Keech and I today dig deeper into the current capital starvation in the resource industry and much, much more. Here are some

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May natural gas prices retreated from their recent highs set yesterday, settling down around half a percent on the day today.  The entire front of the strip came under a bit of selling pressure, generally settling down slightly more than

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Despite geopolitical risks seemingly ebbing, WTI/RBOB rebounded today on hopes OPEC would extend output cuts and extended gains after API reported surprise draws across the entire energy space. Additionally, Bloomberg points out that Alberta’s plan to cut crude and fuel shipments to British Columbia could

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  Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This committee statement is about as close as they get to identifying their method.

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We’ve been talking quite a lot recently about the equity market’s inability to hang on to gains in the last hour of trading. Heading into today, the index had traded down in the last hour of trading for six straight

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On 29 January 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement together with the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice and the FBI announced criminal and civil enforcement actions against 3 global investment banks and 5

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U.S. retail sales picked up in March after declining for three straight months, as consumers bought more motor vehicles and other expensive items, reflecting a revival in consumer spending owing to tax cuts and refunds. Eight of 13 major retail

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