Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
November 16, 2017

It’s 2018 forecast time for the big banks. With Goldman unveiling its seven Top Trades for 2018 earlier, overnight it was also UBS’ turn to reveal its price targets for the S&P in the coming year, and not surprisingly, the largest Swiss

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For a second straight day December contract natural gas prices bounced off support around the $3.05 level but were unable to break lower and fill the gap below.  This price action fit nicely with our Daily Morning Text Alert sent

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CNBC’s Josh Lipton reports on Applied Materials quarterly earnings. Staphanie Link, TIAA Investments, and CNBC’s Mike Santoli weigh in.

As this rally has often done, just as you expect a reversal to start, bulls come in (hard) to bid up the market. The S&P had the clearest switch as it moved from a ‘bull trap’ to a ‘bear trap’.

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Concerns over timing and implementation of President Donald Trump’s tax cut plans weighed on the key U.S. indexes recently. Investors remain pensive after Senate Republicans revealed a tax cut plan that entails the deferment of corporate tax cuts for a

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Video length: 00:09:38 Stocks pop higher today on the news the House passed the tax reform bill and good earnings from WMT. Does this mean more new highs or is the market setting the range of trading for the rest

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Capitalism inherently veers towards a monopolistic and unequal society (ie, capitalists try to own all the means of production). This means that capitalists must understand that their own actions are the biggest risk to the system they love. This is

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Video length: 00:07:00 Japanese stocks have been rallying of late, particularly after Shinzo Abe’s strong victory in snap elections, which gave his party a two thirds majority in the parliament. His win has cleared the way for another round of

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With the oil markets much closer to balance, geopolitical uncertainties are beginning to have a larger influence on the price of oil, something that hasn’t been the case for the last 2-3 years, Robert Rapier at R-Squared Energy recently told Financial Sense

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Pandora (P) is higher in afternoon trading after shares were upgraded to Outperform by BMO Capital, which cited better than expected subscriber numbers and positive channel checks on audio ads, among other things. POSITIVE CHECKS ON ADS, WIDER AUDIENCE: BMO

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