Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
April 21, 2017

This post is a review of all major leading indicators follows – and their trends are mixed.  Analyst Opinion of the Leading Indicator Forecasts Most of the leading indicators are based on factors which are known to have significant backward revisions

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Unlike their counterparts at the ISM, Markit sees growth in both services and manufacturing weakening with U.S. private sector growth at a seven-month low in April. Markit notes that a profit squeeze on businesses. Input prices are rising faster than final

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Tesla Inc (TSLA) stock rallied on Friday, recovering a good chunk of the value it lost on Thursday after the company announced a safety recall. The problem is related to the brakes in the Model S and Model X vehicles that were

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Shares of semiconductor companies that make automotive chips are underperforming the broader market and the sector this afternoon after Maxim (MXIM) suggested a slowdown in automotive may be on the horizon, despite reporting third quarter earnings yesterday that came in

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It’s deja vu all over again… *TRUMP SAYS HE WILL UNVEIL TAX PLAN NEXT WK: AP *TRUMP SAYS PLAN TO INCLUDE `MASSIVE’ CUT FOR COS., INDIVIDUALS And the machines fell for it… As AP reports, President Donald Trump says businesses and

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“Bigly,” “tremendous,” “terrific people,” “phenomenal tax cuts,” “very powerful armada,” “big league,” and other bullshit platitudes. That’s what this administration lives on, and by extension, so does this market. Which is why this… TRUMP TELLS AP HE WILL UNVEIL TAX

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Video length: 00:08:00 Emerging market ETFs are surging in 2017 and within that space, India ETFs are the best performers. Foreign investors continue to pour money into Indian stocks as optimism about economic growth and structural reforms continues to rise.

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“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues, in the long run, is to cut the tax rates.”  – John F. Kennedy

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Gold has been characterized as insurance, a hedge against inflation/social unrest/instability, or, more simply, just a commodity.  But it is treated most of the time, by most people, as an investment.   This is true even by those who are more negative in their attitude towards

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You’ve probably read a million market narratives that sound super smart. But have you ever read one that was so over-the-top smart that it just sounded like it had to be true? I consider myself to be a pretty smart

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