Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
December 21, 2017

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Payment Data Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:PYDS), an integrated electronic payment solutions provider, today announced it has agreed to the sale and issuance to institutional investors of 1,176,000 shares of common stock in a

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“Outrageous Prediction” Definition Saxo Bank points out their “Outrageous Predictions for 2018 “are not their actual forecasts. Rather, they are a list of supposed “1% likelihood” events that Saxo really feels should be considered as 10% likely or higher. In

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The latest Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for November increased to 130.9 from 130.4 in October. The Coincident Economic Index (CEI) came in at 116.5, up from the previous month. The Conference Board LEI for the U.S. increased again in November,

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Thanks to Trump’s pro-growth economic policies aimed at accelerating economic improvement, reducing regulation, increasing spending, slashing taxes, and boosting jobs and corporate profits, the U.S. stock market is in the midst of the second largest bull run this year.  In

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The end of the year is almost here, so we’re getting the usual flood of end-of-the-year and preview 2018 reports. Nomura analysts have entered the fray with their grey swan predictions for 2018, which include an interesting mix of tidbits

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Hurricanes continue to impact claims taking procedures in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Bloomberg / Econoday) were 230 K to 240 K (consensus 234,000), and the Department of Labor reported 245,000

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The Chart of the Day belongs to IntriCon (IIN). I found the microminiaturized electronic components stock by using Barchart to sort Today’s 52 Week High list first by the highest Weighted Alpha, then I used the Flipchart featute to review the charts for consistent price appreciation.

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Everyone’s just waiting on Santa. Stocks are still “pricing in” tax cuts at the sector level apparently, but the broader market has seemingly entered a pre-holiday drift. The benchmarks were basically flat on Wall Street although it’s worth noting that

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Video Length: 00:10:01 The ETF industry continues to grow at a rapid pace. During the first eleven months of 2017, global exchange-traded products saw record net inflows of US$600 billion, 53.6% more than in all of 2016, according to London-based

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Once upon a time, the chart below would have resulted in value investors loading up on short positions, or at the very least moving money to the sidelines, while poking fun at the ‘momo’ crowd for once again convincing themselves

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