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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-Market Drama Shifts: Dow Lower on UNH Miss

Since April 2nd, the Dow is -7.65%, the S&P 500 -6.71%, the Nasdaq -6.19% and the small-cap Russell 2000 -8.62%.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Drop Again on Fed Chair Powell's Assessment

The S&P 500 was down -1% as Powell took the stage at the Economic Club of Chicago today, and -2% when he left.

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Retail Sales, Q1 Earnings Show Signs of "Pull Forward"

A trade tariff casualty - NVIDIA - is sending the Nasdaq lower than the other major indexes ahead of the open.

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Markets Flatten by the Close; Q1 Reports from UAL, IBKR, JBHT

A pause in the chaotic ping-pong game of global tariffs that began two weeks ago tomorrow has calmed the market somewhat.

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Mark Vickery

Import Prices, Empire State Come In Mild; Q1 Earnings Beats Abound

Pre-markets are down somewhat, following yesterday's +3/4-percent gain on the Dow and the S&P 500, +2/3-percent gain for the Nasdaq.

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U.S./China Trade at +125% Standoff, PPI Slides, Big Banks Report Q1

Trade between the U.S. and China -- worth $582 billion in 2024 -- has apparently ground to a halt.

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CPI Falls, Pre-Markets Give Back Some Gains

Futures are down, but better after morning economic data was released an hour ahead of the opening bell.

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Bond Market Twists Tariff Arm to 90-Day Pause

Market indexes shot up to levels not seen since the introduction of the Covid vaccine, if not well before that.

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China Cranks Up Tariff "Pain" to +84%

Pre-markets are down again, as are oil prices. Meanwhile, bond yields are going up.

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Markets Reverse Direction as Tariff Ante Upped on China

An additional +50% tariffs on Chinese imports are now getting levied as of midnight tonight.

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Pre-Markets Rocket Up on Overseas Optimism

The Japanese Nikkei index rose +6% off 18-month lows overnight, on hopes that bilateral trade talks between the U.S. and Japan are underway.

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Markets Mellow as Talks About Trade Talks Commence

Market participants began to see some dialogue on the tariff beat, with certain countries willing to state publicly they are ready to negotiate trade levels with the U.S.

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Tariff Saga Starts 2nd Week, Pre-Markets Down Big Again

The American indexes are now reverberating off the market reactions around the world.

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Pre-Markets Down Another -2% on Good Jobs Report

China has fire a retaliatory shot in the tariff war begun on the White House lawn Wednesday.

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Markets Tank on Tariff Policy; Services PMI and Guess? Beat

Tariffs being slapped onto the U.S.'s trading partners all on the same day has only increased the levels of uncertainty for market participants.

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Tariff Policies Send Pre-Market Futures Down -4%

Economists agree this is unlike any tariff policy in U.S. history.

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Mark Vickery

Trump's Tariff Policies Sink Late Trading: QQQ -3%

There is a new effective tariff rate on dozens of countries: China +34%, Taiwan +32%, South Korea +25% and Japan +24%, to name but a few.

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Pre-Markets Down Again on "Liberation Day"

Economic conditions are different today than they were back when President Trump first levied tariffs against China in 2018.

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Markets Turn Positive Late, a Day Ahead of Tariffs

Will it be blanket tariffs or custom carve-out rates for certain goods from certain countries, or perhaps multi-tiered tariff rates? No one knows.

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Countdown to "Liberation Day;" Pre-Markets in the Red

It's 50/50 whether immediate or near-term capitulation from our trading partners forms... or is it?

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Markets Mixed to Start a New Week; PVH +11% on Q4 Earnings

Big Tech closed its worst quarter in 3 years, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipping another -23 points on the day, -0.14%.

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Q1 Ends Today, Jobs Week & Tariffs - Oh My!

Wednesday is private-sector payrolls from ADP (ADP), Thursday has Weekly Jobless Claims and Friday is the Employment Situation report from the U.S. government.

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PCE Levels Steady-to-Warmer; Pre-Markets Down

The monthly PCE report shows headline steadiness with some undercurrents of inflation getting a bit warmer.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Lower, Pending Home Sales Up, LULU Falls on Guidance

Stock markets remain in a range of -2% to -4% from a month ago, and next week when April 2nd tariffs hit, we'll start seeing some of the dust settle.

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Moderating Economic Prints, Mixed Pre-Markets

Jobless Claims stay steady, Trade Balance in Goods comes down slightly but are still historically deep.

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