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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-market Futures Up After 1st Rate Cut of 2025

New data out this morning sees futures rolling off their early tops, but ultimately the reports are good.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Sees "Two-Sided Risk" in Lowering Interest Rates

We now have interest rates between 4.00-4.25% for the first time since December of 2022.

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Mark Vickery

Housing Numbers Down Ahead of Fed Rate Cut Today

With expectations high that interest rates will come down further in the near future, it keeps some homebuying prospects on the sidelines.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Sell Ahead of FOMC Rate Cut

The Nasdaq looked as if it may eke out a green close, but dipped just ahead of the bell.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Imports & Exports Warmer Ahead of Fed Meeting

The new inflation figures out this morning are warmer than expected: will they matter to the Fed?

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Mark Vickery

New Record Highs on S&P, Nasdaq: Tech Stocks Still Lead

The (AI-based) tech trade joins a pending lower interest rate environment for a market-friendly blend.

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Mark Vickery

Moving Pieces Ahead of Fed Rate Decision

It is widely expected that the Fed will cut rates at this meeting for the first time in 2025.

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Mark Vickery

Stock Market On Top of the World Ahead of Fed Meeting

The Fed is data dependent, so that means a rate cut is ripe for the picking.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Pricing-In 50 bps Next Week? Indexes at Record Highs

In the "bad news is good news" set-up we've grown accustomed to over the past year-plus, both of these metrics souring can only mean one thing: lower interest rates.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Spike to +263K, CPI Mild & In-Line

Today's Initial Jobless Claims headline seals the deal for next week's rate cut: +263K new claims.

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Mark Vickery

PPI Cools Notably: Is a 50 bps Rate Cut in the Works?

Inflation is now cooling and employment is clearly weakening. Perhaps the Fed is back to considering a 50 bps cut, instead?

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Mark Vickery

Oracle Misses in Q3, Gains +22% - Plus Jobs Revisions & More

While Oracle missed on Q3 revenues it grew +55% in Cloud Infrastructure year over year.

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Mark Vickery

Small Biz Positive, New Jobs Revisions & Oracle Earnings On Deck

As we look forward to the unveiling of the iPhone 17, we also keep an eye out for year-long jobs revisions from the BLS.

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Mark Vickery

CPI, PPI This Week - Also ORCL, ADBE Earnings

Pleased this morning are investors of Robinhood (HOOD) and Applovin (APP), which will soon enter the S&P 500.

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Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs for August: +22K, Unemployment +4.3%

The Unemployment Rate ticks up to +4.3%, the highest level since October 2021.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Stride Higher on Rate Cut Expectations

Lower jobs numbers are what will guarantee at least one Fed rate cut before the end of 2025.

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Mark Vickery

August ADP Weaker at +54K, & More

This ADP headline roughly tracks the trailing 4-month average in private-sector jobs growth: +55K. Compare this to a nearly double previous 4-month average of +102K.

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Mark Vickery

Tech Ruling, Q2 Earnings Help Boost Hump Day Market

The favorable ruling for Alphabet yesterday buoyed the Nasdaq today; Q2 results came in late for Salesforce, American Eagle.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up for Nasdaq, JOLTS Data After the Bell

Alphabet gets a favorable ruling, Macy's beats in Q2, and JOLTS numbers are expected to reach 7.4M.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Sell Off on Noise About Tariffs, etc.

We kick off the historically weak trading month of September with the Dow closing -0.55%, the S&P 500 -0.69% and the Nasdaq -0.60%.

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Mark Vickery

Gearing Up for Jobs Week: What to Expect

Friday will mark the first Employment Situation report since the firing of the head of BLS by President Trump.

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Mark Vickery

PCE Numbers In-Line, Pre-Market Fighting Off Lows

PCE came in as expected, no hindrance to the 25 bps rate cut signaled for the September Fed meeting.

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Mark Vickery

Record Closing Highs for Dow, S&P 500 on Econ & Jobs Strength

A strong revision to Q2 GDP ahead of the open seems to have put investors in a good mood today, even as a stronger economy takes away some odds that the Fed will be cutting interest rates.

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Mark Vickery

Big Morning for Q2 Numbers: GDP +3.3%, Earnings Beats for Retailers

Q2 GDP improves by 30 bps from the initial print, +3.3%, and 20 bps above expectations.

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Mark Vickery

NVIDIA Tops Estimates, Grows +41% on Data Center

NVIDIA easily beat estimates on both top and bottom lines -- estimates that were already quite extraordinarily high.

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