Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
August 10, 2018

I have company arriving from out of town, Maryland, and Ohio, now and the rest later tonight. lol. I spent the afternoon getting things ready for them.  A big pot of chicken gumbo soup and a loaf of hearty bread

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ECRI’s WLI Growth Index which forecasts economic growth six months forward remains in expansion. Analyst Opinion of the trends of the weekly leading indices Even with the general downward trend in this index over the last 6 months, the forecast

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The September natural gas contract fell back a cent today, trading in another narrow range ahead of the weekend.  On the day J-V9 was a bit more firm, as was the fall strip with the March H9 contract the weakest. 

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Data Courtesy of Trade Alert   

French banks have just published their results for the second quarter, and the media deem them globally “good”. They don’t seem too finicky… We had already discussed the substance matter in a December 2017 article titled “French Banks Are Much

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The second quarter earnings reporting period has actually been the most bearish for stock price reactions throughout history. It’s the only quarter of the year where stocks have historically averaged a decline (-0.09%) on their earnings reaction days going back

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The second quarter earnings reporting period has actually been the most bearish for stock price reactions throughout history. It’s the only quarter of the year where stocks have historically averaged a decline (-0.09%) on their earnings reaction days going back

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Gold prices are lower for the fifth consecutive week with the precious metal down 0.3% to trade at 1211 ahead of the New York close on Friday. The decline takes price back into key support we’ve been tracking for weeks

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With stocks tumbling into the Friday close following the collapse of the Turkish lira, and with Trump a stickler for no red days especially when he is on vacation, traders were wondering where today’s stick save would come from. We

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In San Francisco, a household now needs an income of $188,000 to afford rent for the average two-bedroom house or apartment with 30% of the household income spent on housing. The problem is that the median income is only $103,801. Housing

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