Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
February 28, 2018

Shares of 3D Systems (DDD – Free Report) soared more than 15% in after-hours trading Wednesday, shortly after the company released preliminary Q4 financial results and announced that it was rescheduling its report date to March 14. For the fourth

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The Fed is hiking rates into one of the slowest growing economies in U.S. history.Previous such events didn’t work out well. Whatever economic growth US has had recently has been driven by increased debt & dissaving. If interest rates are

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Inflation Breakdown Since inflation was mentioned numerous times during Powell’s testimony and then in the interview with former Fed chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, let’s look at a breakdown of the metric. As you can see from the chart

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Mylan N.V. MYL reported mixed results for fourth-quarter 2017 as EpiPen sales declined. Adjusted earnings of $1.43 per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.41 but was down from $1.57 reported in the year-ago quarter. Mylan N.V. Price and Consensus Mylan

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The S&P 500 closed February with a monthly loss of 3.89% after a gain of 5.62% in January. All three S&P 500 MAs are signaling “invested” and three of five Ivy Portfolio ETFs — Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI),

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Neil Irwin wrote the piece I have been waiting for pretty much forever. He points out that economists estimates of the “non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU)” have been repeatedly shown to be hugely wrong. In the 1990s the accepted wisdom was

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Box, Inc.’s BOX fiscal fourth-quarter 2018 adjusted loss was 6 cents per share, lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate. The loss was 54% narrower on a sequential basis and 40% narrower than the year-ago quarter. The reported loss was lower than the

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Sabra Health Care REIT (Nasdaq: SBRA) is the landlord for skilled nursing/transitional care facilities, 22 specialty hospitals and 88 senior housing properties. (It also manages 13 more.) Its assets include… Glen Hill Center, a nursing home in Danbury, Connecticut Villa Campana

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“Davidson” submits: Interesting how the market responds to slight rise in US Crude Inventory and ignores that we should be building while refineries are shut for Spring Change-over and maintenance. That we are not building inventories as is typical, is

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SPX Monitoring purposes; Sold long SPX on 2/26/18 at 2779.60= gain 2.33%; long 2/20/18 at 2716.26. Monitoring purposes Gold: Neutral. Long-Term Trend SPX monitor purposes: Long SPX on 2/8/18 at 2581.00. The above is a 5-minute chart of the SPY.

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