Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
September 13, 2015

At its keynote event on Sept. 9 Apple Inc. (AAPL – Analyst Report) unveiled a smart upgrade plan for users, alongside the latest iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The iPhone maker has priced the new phones similar to the existing iPhone 6 (approx

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The average daily turnover in the foreign exchange market is over $5 trillion a day. Many traders and analysts put considerable weight on market positioning.  However, it proves very elusive. What many institutions do is analyze their own flows.  I remember speaking

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Microsoft’s Office 365 has tripled its market share in 2015 and overtaken Google as the leading enterprise application. Strong adoption of the cloud application by large enterprises  is what has mainly been driving this growth. What does this mean for

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Having fallen and missed the last two months, UMich Consumer Sentiment plunged in September’s preliminary data from 91.9 to 85.7 (dramatically missing the 91.1 expectations) crashing to its lowest point in a year. This is the biggest miss on record. Crucially, this

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    Economic conditions in Europe deteriorated again last month, said European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi. He confirmed the ECB will continue its monthly bond purchases of 60 billion euros ($67 billion). On the other side of the

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I’m quite tortured about what to do this week, particularly on Thursday before Janet Yellen  comes out spitting blood and declaring the need for Yet More Data in order to lift interest rates. Anyway. Charts. Some folks have been stacking

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Under pressure from investors, Glencore Plc (GLNCY), the world’s largest corporate player in the commodities market, recently announced a plan to slash as much as $10.2B in debt by offering additional shares to the market, selling assets, and eliminating dividends.In the

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Thanks to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Persian Gulf-based members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), after meeting in Doha, Qatar on September 10, now see oil prices remaining between $40 and $50 for the rest

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  Monday: July’s Tertiary Industry Index will be released in Japan, alongside the final estimate for the month’s Industrial Production. The final estimate for August’s Consumer Price Index will be released in Italy, where the analyst consensus anticipates the 0.5%

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In the past year, we have extensively profiled the collapse of ground zero of Canada’s oil industry as a result of the plunge in the price of oil, in posts such as the following: “Canada Crude Contagion: Calgary Home Prices

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