Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
December 23, 2015

Written by by PitchBook Bigger isn’t always better, but 2015 has seen some eye-popping numbers across the global private equity and venture capital landscapes. As our 2015 Year in Review continues, today we rank some of the largest deals, exits and funds to

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Gold was slightly weaker and silver held firm in very light holiday trading, after a little more active overnight trade. Not much is happening with gold at The Bucket Shop.  More ounces were claimed by JPM for their house account.

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One of the best ways I found to gauge the overall strength of the market is to look at the 5 major ETFs: the S&P 500 Large Cap Index (IVV), the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index (NYSEArca: IJH), the S&P

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With the release of today’s report on November Personal Incomes and Outlays we can now take a closer look at “Real” Disposable Personal Income Per Capita. The first chart shows both the nominal per capita disposable income and the real (inflation-adjusted)

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This isn’t surprising, but events in China are accelerating. Just as the West heads into year-end coma, there is much to be concerned about on the other side of the Pacific. For, one, either the PBOC has taken off whatever

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TM editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence. Mining companies and their shareholders have come to the realization that doing the right things in the communities

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We have been following the slow at first, and now very fast-moving disaster that is Bed Bath And Beyond with close interest for years, at first with detached amusement (Bed, Bath & Beyond Buybacks Authorizes Another $2 Billion In Stock

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This is an excerpt from the Pro Trader Macroliquidity report. Macroliquidity. The Fed has “raised interest rates” (wink-wink). Its primary tools in this make believe policy are interest on excess reserves (IOER) and the interest paid on reverse repos (RRP). The

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It’s been a roller coaster year for China stocks, marked by exponential gains followed by a sharp nosedive. While the first half of the year was a great time for the markets, stocks began slipping during the second half. By

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Stocks continued to show modest gains today in light trading, despite some weaker than expected economic numbers this morning. And so Santa is coming to Wall Street, with year end bonuses for all the little humps and humpettes. I expect

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