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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Fed Keeps Rates Unchanged at 4.25-4.50%; Market Closes Higher

While inflation is still running slightly higher than ideal levels and the labor force remains near maximum employment, there was no hard data Powell could point to to substantiate any policy changes at this point.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets in the Green: Disney Beats, Fed Report Awaits

The Walt Disney Company (DIS) is seeing shares up +8% ahead of the opening bell after beating estimates on both top and bottom lines.

ADPNegative Net Change DISNegative Net Change TRIPPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Tariff Talk Returns to Sink Markets; Plus Q1 Earnings

President Trump's return to tough tariff talk has informed today's market sentiment.

AMDNegative Net Change WYNNNegative Net Change DISNegative Net Change RIVNNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Slip Lower on Record Trade Deficit, Q1 Earnings

A new record-low trade deficit may be contributing to the sour mood this morning in pre-market trading.

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Mark Vickery

Trading Week Starts Out on the Soft Side

Decent ISM Services numbers couldn't turn the tide on Monday's mild selloff.

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Pre-Market Futures in the Red to Start New Trading Week

Following a storng end to last week's trading and the "surprise" announcement of Warren Buffett stepping down, pre-markets are lower the Monday.

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Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs +177K, Better than Expected; Unemployment +4.2%

Monthly jobs stayed at a healthy level, with wage growth cooling. Pre-market traders love it, sending major indexes up higher this morning.

CVXPositive Net Change XOMPositive Net Change WENNegative Net Change PIPRNegative Net Change SHELNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Amazon, Apple Lead Big Earnings Afternoon

Both "Mag 7" stocks are trading lower on quarterly earnings, while Reddit and Twilio are jumping higher following theirs.

AMZNNegative Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change TWLOPositive Net Change ABNBPositive Net Change RDDTPositive Net Change XYZNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Higher; Q1 Earnings from LLY, MCD & More

Last week, 241K Americans filed for unemployment on Initial Jobless Claims, with Continuing Claims touching 1.9 million.

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Steady PCE, Higher Pending Home Sales, Help Bolster Hump Day Trading

While PCE month over month was flat on both headline and core, Pending Home Sales increased and late earnings reports posted beats.

QCOMNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

First Negative GDP in 3+ Years: -0.3%; Pre-Markets Down

With ADP coming in half of what was expected and Q1 GDP -0.3%, we can understand the downward pressure in the pre-market.

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Mark Vickery

JOLTS, Confidence, Home Prices and Q1 Earnings Make an Eventful Day

Major indexes gains from 0.5-0.75% in today's trading, on a plethora of data across many realms of the market.

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Trade Balance in Goods Hits All-Time Record, Plus Q1 Earnings

Pre-market futures are mixed-to-flat once again, this time with the blue-chip Dow leading into positive territory.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Back to Flattish; Q1 After the Close: FFIV, CDNS & More

Today saw a mid-day dip across major indexes, but rebounded into the green by the end of the session -- all but the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

NUEPositive Net Change FFIVNegative Net Change NXPINegative Net Change CDNSNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Big Week Ahead for the Stock Market

Jobs Week, PCE and Q1 earnings reports should dominate market headlines all week.

AMZNNegative Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change ADPNegative Net Change NUEPositive Net Change DPZPositive Net Change FFIVNegative Net Change NXPINegative Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Conflicting Claims on U.S./China Trade Sends Pre-Markets in the Red

The closer we get to July 10th without a new trade deal, the more precarious these tariff charges become.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up Today and for the Week; Q1 from GOOGL, INTC, SKX

Alphabet (GOOGL) and Intel (INTC) beat in Q1, but Skechers (SKX) was mixed and fell in after-hours trading.

AMZNNegative Net Change INTCNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change GOOGLNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

A Busy Morning: Jobless Claims, Durable Goods & Q1 Earnings

While Jobless Claims and Durable Goods outperformed, we saw mixed results in Q1 earnings this morning.

INTCNegative Net Change BMYNegative Net Change CMCSANegative Net Change FCXNegative Net Change PGNegative Net Change UNPPositive Net Change PEPPositive Net Change AALNegative Net Change GOOGLNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets in Green 2nd Straight Day; Q1 Reports for CMG, IBM & More

While Chipotle and Whirlpool missed estimates after the close, IBM, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments and Newmont Resources all posted beats.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Back Up on Softening Stance from the White House

Much of the markets' attitude seems tethered to public statements made by President Trump.

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Mark Vickery

Tesla Q1 Misses on Top & Bottom Lines, Kicks Can on Guidance

Tesla (TSLA) posted its sixth earnings miss in the past seven quarters, coming up -38.6% short.

ISRGNegative Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up on Q1 Earnings; Tesla Reports After the Close

We have a nice handful of earnings results out this morning, but the big tuna in today's Q1 periscope is Tesla (TSLA).

LMTPositive Net Change GEPositive Net Change VZNegative Net Change MMMNegative Net Change PHMNegative Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Market Indexes Tank Again, but Gold Continues to Shine

The COMEX closed today's session climbed +3.3% today to a current spot price of $3426 per ounce -- a new record high.

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Mark Vickery

Expect the Unexpected for a New Trading Week

Every week brings us big headlines, and there is nothing to suggest this will calm in the near term.

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Mark Vickery

Short Week Finishes with Netflix Q1 Beat

We'd obviously welcome any positive news on the trade tariff front over the weekend, which starts tomorrow for the markets in observance of Good Friday.

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