Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
January 14, 2016

Intel Corp. (INTC – Analyst Report), reported Q4 2015 earnings after the closing bell on Thursday, and the world’s biggest semiconductor supplier beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines: 74 cents per share on revenues of $14.9 billion topped the

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When was the last time you spoke to your children about money? A financial education is an important foundation for success later on in life. Just like in chess, where a strong and solid opening at the beginning of the

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Yesterday’s 10 Year auction was, despite the concurrent pricing of the world’s biggest bond deal in the face of AB InBev’s $45 billion issue, a blockbuster, with demand off the charts in every possible way. However, today’s just concluded sale

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After yesterday’s finish it looked easier for markets to continue lower, and early action had suggested this might have been the case. A weak finish put a bit of a damper on things, but there is something for bulls to

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The US economy is supposed to be nothing like its Chinese counterpart, a sentiment that extends in the mainstream well past that into genuine surprise about how it would be possible US financial markets tripping over Chinese stumbles. Though the US

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GoPro, Inc. (GPRO – Analyst Report) stunned the market after the bell yesterday as it released dismal preliminary fourth-quarter 2015 results, weeks before its scheduled earnings release on Feb 3. The action camera-maker’s string of announcements included weaker-than-expected sales for the fourth quarter,

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The US stock market and the oil market appear joined at the hip. The Great Graphic here, created on Bloomberg, shows the correlation of the two markets. It is near 0.77, which is the highest since September 2013. The correlation

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That didn’t take long. A month after the Fed’s dreaded quarter-point interest rate hike, the markets tank and out come the talking heads to promise that whatever is bothering traders, Daddy will make it right. Falling inflation expectations could mean

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US announcements During the day on Friday, we get several US announcements, so this will put more focus on US assets as well as the US dollar during the day in our opinion. WTI Crude Oil The WTI Crude Oil

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Stocks were in rally mode today, in an attempt to dampen fear and encourage confidence. While they were most likely short term oversold, the ‘rally’ was all artifice, and had the feel of the kind of forced cheeriness in the

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