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Wall Street to Watch for a Santa Rally, Weekly Jobless Claims Drop

Wall Street to Watch for a Santa Rally, Weekly Jobless Claims Drop.

Mark Vickery

Xmas Eve Pre-Markets Mixed (Red & Green)

The Dow is -24 points at this hour, adding a little red to the green for the S&P 500, Nasdaq and small-cap Russell 2000 this morning.

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Mark Vickery

Is Consumer Confidence on the Way Up?

Should expected Consumer Confidence numbers be met later this morning, it will be the highest level of we'll have seen since mid-2023.

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Mark Vickery

PCE Cools in November; Are We Getting an Xmas Government Shutdown?

A federal government shutdown has not happened since 2018-19, the second of two shutdowns in 2018.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flat After Big Selloff Day; FDX, NKE Beat on Earnings

Results were nowhere near as bad as they were yesterday, but only the Dow had modestly positive numbers.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Look to Bounce Back from Big Wednesday Selloff

Early trading is filling in some of the big holes dug in the stock market yesterday.

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Mark Vickery

Stock Market Sells Off on New Fed Rate Policy

The Fed is only looking to cut two more times in the new year, instead of the previous dot-plot's indicated four cuts.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Go Green Ahead of Fed Interest Rate Decision

The big news will likely not be the decision on interest rates, but how the Fed's tone has changed.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Lower Ahead of Fed Policy Decision, Forward View

The Dow slipped another -267 points, -0.61%, the S&P 500 was -0.39%, the Nasdaq -0.32%.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-market Futures in the Red on Warmer Retail Sales

Near-term Retail Sales lows are not from the trailing 4-month average of +0.6%, but the prior 4-month average of +0.2%.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Decision Wednesday in Focus This Week

Expectations are strong for another 25 basis-point (bps) cut to the Fed funds rate, which would bring effective interest rates to a range of 4.25-4.50% for the first time since February of 2023.

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Mark Vickery

Nasdaq Up, Dow Down: A Week in Review

It's Friday the 13th, but pre-market futures are not spooked.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Take a Breather on Econ Data; COST, AVGO, RH Report Late

We're still near all-time highs on the major indexes, so taking a breather with less-than-stellar economic prints seems perfectly reasonable.

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Mark Vickery

PPI Up Big on Hotter Food Prices, Jobless Claims Higher

Headline PPI month over month came in double expectations to +0.4%, the highest since June of this year.

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Mark Vickery

Nasdaq Up Big, Dow Down a Bit, Following CPI, Budget Data

It's now in the Fed's hands what they want to do about interest rates at their two-day meeting starting next Tuesday.

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Mark Vickery

CPI +0.3%, +2.7% Year over Year: Exactly In-Line

The CPI Inflation Rate came in-line with expectations: +2.7%, 10 bps ahead of the prior month.

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Mark Vickery

Market Indexes Close in the Red Ahead of CPI Data

While most CPI numbers are expected to be in-line with the previous month, the Inflation Rate looks to be ticking into the opposite direction.

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Mark Vickery

Small Biz, Productivity, Earnings All Solid in Mixed Pre-Market

Although most attention this trading week is focused on CPI results tomorrow, this morning is actually fairly active.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Slide to Start New Trading Week; ORCL Misses, AI, TOL Beat

The Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 all cooled around -0.6% on the initial trading day of the week.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Quiet Ahead of CPI Report Mid-Week

Would a hotter-than-expected CPI headline cause the Fed to pause cutting interest rates?

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Mark Vickery

Jobs Report Warmer than Expected: 227K; 4.2% Unemployment

In two of the last three months of BLS data, we're seeing resistance to a cooling economy in the jobs market.

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Mark Vickery

Stock Markets' Winning Streaks End Ahead of Friday Jobs Report

It looks to be a bit of a wait-and-see thing with tomorrow's all-important jobs numbers from the U.S. government.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Mixed, Trade Deficit Slimmer

Both Initial and Continuing Jobless Claims are still representative of a healthy labor situation overall.

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Mark Vickery

More All-Time Closing Highs on Big Day for Data

We had a busy morning with economic data today, not only with the lower-than-expected private-sector payroll data from ADP (ADP) ahead of the open, but monthly Services PMI and Factory Orders, as well. We even saw a new Beige Book this afternoon.

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Mark Vickery

ADP +146K: Lighter than Expected

Manufacturing shed -26K positions in November, another hard reality for an already struggling sector of the economy.

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