Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
November 7, 2017

The headlines say consumer credit rate of annual growth increased from last month. Our analysis agrees. Analyst Opinion of the Consumer Credit Situation Not only does this data set suffer from backward revision (moderate to significant enough to change trends),

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The most active equity options and strikes for end of the day: CBS, WFT, AABA, BAC, AAPL, SNAP, TEVA, ZNGA. 

It’s deja vu all over again. Almost exactly 6 months after Snapchat reported abysmal Q1 earnings – its first since going public – which crushed its stock, the company has done it again reporting earnings that disappointed on every single metric, and

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The Zynga (ZNGA) 3Q 2017 earnings results were released after closing bell, and the company posted earnings of 2 cents per share on $224.6 million in revenue. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 2 cents per share on $207.53 million

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The Nikkei (+1.75%) had the strongest session in Asia today, helped by the continued rally in oil (+3% on Monday) prices and strong earnings. The Nikkei reached new 26 year highs earlier on optimism of growth, mergers and fresh international

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Shares of retailers of furniture and home goods, including Wayfair (W), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), RH (RH) and Ethan Allen Interiors (ETH), are slipping after Amazon (AMZN) took the wraps off its first private-label furniture brands. PRIVATE-LABEL FURNITURE BRANDS: Amazon has introduced

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The good news is that the economy just printed its second consecutive quarter of 3% growth, a feat not accomplished since Q2 and Q3 2014. The bad news is that the growth spurt in 2014 was better, quantitatively and qualitatively.

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While VIX futures and options speculators have pulled back (albeit very marginally) from their record short positions in the last week, ETF products betting that volatility will sink lower have never been more popular. As VIX collapsed to an 8 handle

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Sure the stock market is selling off right now, but I wouldn’t let that compel you into thinking that this market is going to fall into a bigger sell-off at this point.  I mean, as of this post, the S&P

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In this video we look at the CBOE Implied Correlation Index and the general evolution of correlations for the S&P500 and what it means for traders and investors. Specifically, the video walks you through a couple of slides of a recent edition

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