Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
September 1, 2018

William Bengen calculated sustainable withdrawal rates (SWR) using historical S&P 500 market returns since 1928 leading to the “4% Rule.”[1] More recently, Robert Shiller published stock market  returns data back to 1871 using the S&P Composite Index[2]. In this post, I’ll

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As part of my monitoring process, I took upon myself to update the list of Dividend Champions every month. I have found it very helpful to update the list, in an effort to monitor more closely the list of dividend

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The Australian dollar has been rather noisy over the last couple of months, especially against the Japanese yen. However, this has set up a nice trading range that we have been working with for some time, and I believe this

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Trump wants a “fair deal”. I propose both sides end all tariffs and subsidies. Fair Deal or Out     Trump Says ‘Canada Will Be Out’ Without ‘Fair Deal’ on Nafta Mr. Trump’s warning on Saturday comes a day after U.S. and

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On Friday, the Bank of Japan tweaked their bond buying program for September. Although they upped the purchase sizes across maturities, they reduced the frequency of purchase operations from five to six. Going into July, the market was conditioned to

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On Friday, the Bank of Japan tweaked their bond buying program for September. Although they upped the purchase sizes across maturities, they reduced the frequency of purchase operations from five to six. Going into July, the market was conditioned to

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Toll Brothers (TOL) is more than halfway through reversing a surprising post-earnings gap up a week and a half ago. The 13.8% post-earnings gain surprised me because the message from TOL was little different than its messages in the past

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Toll Brothers (TOL) is more than halfway through reversing a surprising post-earnings gap up a week and a half ago. The 13.8% post-earnings gain surprised me because the message from TOL was little different than its messages in the past

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Previous analysis is updated – the price as traded as outlined and rising to levels where a secondary is likely to form. However, there is a change to the longer term outlook in that I now favor a more substantial

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VIX tested Long-term resistance at 14.17 before closing beneath Short-term support/resistance at 12.99. The probe above critical support/resistance may have triggered a probable buy signal in the VIX. The Cycles Model shows a likely surge strength for the VIX through

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