Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
October 13, 2018

The market has fallen in October; something that was expected, not only was it expected but most investors should welcome the weakness. Corrections are normal and health restoring to a sustainable Bull market. When stocks only go up, and keep

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Roger Lowenstein has a very good piece in the Post about GE’s (GE) hiring of a new CEO after the prior one served less than a year. The (Expensive) Lesson GE Never Learns By Roger Lowenstein, October 12, 2018 The

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Video length: 0017:17 Ira Epstein Shares his financial wrap-up following a crazy week in the markets.

Non-alcoholic beverages like sparkling soft drinks, juices, enhanced water, sports and energy drinks, and dairy and plant-based beverages are the main constituents of the soft drinks industry. Additionally, some industry participants produce and sell handy foods and snacks, which complement

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“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” … Robert Duvall as gung-ho, Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Vietnam film, “Apocalypse Now.“   In Kilgore’s case it was the “smell of victory” … not so for the market. Since

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The gold and silver futures markets got even more unbalanced last week, with speculators (who are usually wrong at the extremes) going as short as they’ve ever been and commercials going even more long. Here’s the gold data in chart

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Dollar/CAD drifted back up in a week that was mostly about a risk-off atmosphere. What’s next? The BOC’s Business Outlook and a double-feature Friday stand out. Here are the highlights and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD. Stock markets tumbled down

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In the aftermath of last week’s sharp selloff which saw the S&P drop more than 3% on Wednesday, the third such drop of the year bringing the number of YTD 3% loss days to three and the highest since 2011

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VIX spiked this Wednesday as the stock market crashed. It was a particularly large one-day spike. But while the overall rise in VIX this week was big, it wasn’t exceptionally big. VIX spiked more than 3.5 standard deviations above its 20 weekly moving average

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On Wednesday the DJIA took an 800 plus point beating. On Thursday, another 500 points were shed. At the same time, the mood of real estate buyers has darkened. Austrian Business Cycle Theory is proven right again. President Trump is

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