Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
April 18, 2017

You know, I don’t do a lot of “that’s a wrap” or “the day that was” posts. For one thing 4:30 is beach time (and usually just the right beach weather) and for another, the last thing I want to

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Goldman Sachs’ Charlie Himmelberg and Marty Young find evidence that “animal spirits” are driving sentiment along party lines… and that may be a concern… Sentiment indicators have rallied hard since the election of Donald Trump. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index, for

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We saw a mixed session in Japan today with the Nikkei bouncing from yesterdays lows eventually closing up +0.35% whilst the currency rejected the 107 handle last trading mid 108 level. Shanghai has lost -0.8% also watching the Hang Seng

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This week on the Estimize Roundtable, Estimize’s CEO, Leigh Drogen and SVP of Media, Christine Short, are joined by guests Jeff Macke of Macke Asset Management and Sean Udall, the CIO at Quantum Trading Strategies. With the Q1 Earnings season

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Dish Network (DISH) shares have dipped after research firm Macquarie downgraded the stock to Neutral, arguing that the company’s $6.2B splurge on the recent wireless spectrum auction could deter a potential suitor and appears misaligned with the coming rollout of

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Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) Tuesday posted market-beating fiscal third quarter earnings results and offered a bullish forecast for the current period… Written by StockNews.com The Fremont, CA-based semiconductor equipment maker reported: Q3 earnings per share (EPS) of $2.80, which was

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Pull into Pinos Altos, NM and get a sense of the old Wild West. Trade the current market and also get a sense of the old Wild West. Both the market and the Wild West are fraught with myths and

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Having finally established that the economy of the “rising dollar” was appreciably worse than first estimated, we can turn our attention back toward figuring out what that means for the near future and beyond. According to the latest estimates for Industrial Production,

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Last quarter, IBM almost fooled the market when it “beat” but only thanks to using the lowest effective tax rate in recent history (excluding one charge-fulled quarter when the rate was negative). Well, fast forward one-quarter when IBM has done it

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Stocks ended the day slightly lower as poor earnings from GS and JNJ pulls the markets down. However, the big mover of the day was the Bond market. For those that don’t know the bond market is much larger than

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