Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
April 18, 2018

A big question investors are trying to wrap their heads around is why the headlines suddenly matter to equities in 2018. There were geopolitical concerns in 2017, yet stocks were sanguine. This year, negative headlines seem to impact stocks more.

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It’s nice to see one of my shorts, Pier One, get clobbered after hours. Here’s a longer-term view. In my estimation, firm support is at $0.  

In the original whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that would facilitate transactions without the oversight on a trustworthy, centralized party. Since then, cryptocurrency has surged in popularity as an asset class – and

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CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa reports on the quarterly earnings report for American Express.

Silver was the quiet star of the market action today, breaking out and above of the 17 handle level. Stocks rallied early and then stalled. They are pushing up against some more significant resistance levels on the charts as can

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Good is bad, up is down, stocks are safe, war is peace… The Dow underperformed notably, driven mostly by IBM weakness (swiping 84 points off The Dow), but Trannies surged once again…   Futures show overnight gains, a dump at

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The Chart of the Day belongs to Varonis Systems (VRNS). I found the data management software stock by using Barchart to sort Barchart’s Top Stocks to Own list first by the highest Weighted Alpha, then I used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent

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Since putting in a major bottom in 2009, the U.S. equity market has dramatically outperformed the rest of the world. This may have something to do with the fact that the Fed explicitly encouraged greater risk-taking on the part of

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Since putting in a major bottom in 2009, the U.S. equity market has dramatically outperformed the rest of the world. This may have something to do with the fact that the Fed explicitly encouraged greater risk-taking on the part of

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A broker from a big bank just did something I’d never do… He put a number on the potential value of the blockchain market. If you think, as I do, that blockchain technology will expand from dozens of uses to hundreds and

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