Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
January 22, 2016

Photo Credit: Mike Mozart McDonald’s Corp.  (MCD) Consumer Discretionary – Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure | Reports January 25, Before Markets Open Key Takeaways The Estimize consensus calls for EPS of $1.25 and revenue of $6.287 billion, slightly higher than Wall Street’s estimates

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Gold and silver were trading a bit weakly most of the day, as the dollar rallied higher as shown in the third chart below. But they held their own, even against a rally in equities that had all the appearances

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There’s always hope… Summing the week up perfectly… Something gotta stick… pic.twitter.com/19pzRhdaGw — Chicagostock (@Chicagostock) January 22, 2016 As a reminder, this is still the 2nd worst start to a year ever… *MSCI ALL-COUNTRY WORLD INDEX CLIMBS 2.6%, MOST SINCE

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Talking points: – Global equities caught a strong bid last night, with the Nikkei moving up by a whopping 5.88% as ECB QE-hopes propelled risk assets off of lows. Expectations are building for the Bank of Japan to increase their QE-package. But will

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The headlines for existing home sales say “December’s robust bounce back caps off the best year of existing sales (5.26 million) since 2006 (6.48 million)“. Our analysis of the unadjusted data shows that home sales did improve, but considerably less

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IMPORTANT: 1. Make sure to have 24 hour trading showing so you see pre and post market trading. 2. Be sure to turn off any price spike filters, you want to see these random price spikes. 3. Some data feeds

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Critics of today’s fiat currency/fractional reserve banking world have (for what seems like forever) made the common sense point that when debt rises faster than cash flow, bad things are bound to happen. In every cycle since 1980 this has

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Winter storm Jonas has hit the East Coast, and it’s predicted to drop so much snow that meteorologists are struggling to come up with adequate adjectives. Meanwhile, investors are doing what they always do, looking for a way to profit. Along

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This week didn’t do much to help my core market health indicators or my market risk indicator. Everything is mired in red. We’ve finally got a decent bounce underway, now we watch to see if the core indicators get better

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The unprecedented volatility to start the year has brought out nearly every type of expert opinion on the best way to ride out the storm. I have heard arguments ranging from “stay the course” to “this is just the start

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