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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Fresh Highs for Dow, S&P in Monday Trading

"We would love to freeze both sides of the Fed's dual mandate right here," said Chicago Fed Chair Austan Goolsbee.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Members Make Their Voices Heard This Week

What may be most important to investors this week are the vast amounts of commentary coming from members of the Fed.

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Mark Vickery

Feels Like the End, but It's Really the Beginning

Aside from lowering interest rates to 4.75-5.00% this week, the Fed also signaled there are more cuts to come.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Celebrate Loosening Interest Rate Cycle

Economic prints were better than expected today, as well -- all but FedEx's (FDX) Q1 earnings results.

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Mark Vickery

Coming Up Late-Summer Roses: Fed Rates, Jobless Claims and More

Yesterday signaled a new era of bringing down interest rates in the continued effort to bring a "soft landing" to the economy.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Lowers Interest Rates 50 bps, Markets Sell

The last time the Fed made a 50 bps move was back in December 2022, when the Fed brought rates back up to 4.25-4.50%.

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Mark Vickery

Housing Starts, Building Permits Get Sunny in August

Housing Starts and Building Permits posted their best results in nine months and five months, respectively.

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Mark Vickery

Full Slate of Economic Data Ahead of Fed Rate Cut

Should we see a 25 bps cut, some will worry the Fed hasn't been forceful enough; if it moves 50, others will fret there may be more weakness the Fed sees that the rest of us don't.

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Mark Vickery

Advance Retail Sales +0.1%: A Notch for a 25 bps Cut

The advance print (read: to be revised later) U.S. Retail Sales for August swung to a positive +0.1% from expectations of -0.2%.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed Ahead of Latest Fed Meeting

A co-investment between microchip giant Intel (INTC) and cloud services giant AWS (AMZN) was announced this afternoon, pushing INTC shares up +8%.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Funds Rate Cut Wednesday: 25 bps or 50 bps?

The Fed has not cut rates since pulling them all the way back to 0-0.25% in March 2020.

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Mark Vickery

On Friday the 13th, Many Questions (with Good Answers) for Stocks

Pre-markets are up again this morning on August Import and Export Prices.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up for the Week (So Far) on Inflation and Jobs

On the path to a lower Fed funds rate next week for the first time in years, CPI, PPI and Jobless Claims numbers performed decently.

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Mark Vickery

PPI, Jobless Claims Steady; Pre-Markets Flattish

Year over year PPI on headline came in at +1.73%, down 40 bps from last month.

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Mark Vickery

August CPI Mostly Flat: Good News and Bad News

The Inflation Rate tumbled 40 bps to +2.5% month over month, lower than analysts had been anticipating.

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Mark Vickery

Plenty of Grist for the Fed Rate-Cut Mill

Market participants will likely remain somewhat hesitant ahead of tomorrow's significant Consumer Price Index (CPI) report.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Start New Trading Week in the Green; ORCL Beats in Q1

Oracle (ORCL) shares are up +8% on two high-profile partnerships announced: one with Google Cloud and another with AWS,

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Bouncing Back from Weak Trading Week

Pre-market futures are up to start a new trading week, after the worst week for the stock market in two years.

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Mark Vickery

Jobs Report, Revisions Lower: 50 bps Cut in the Cards?

Headline BLS is -19K below expectations, and we also see fairly drastic downward revisions for both June and July.

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Mark Vickery

Mixed Results Ahead of AVGO Beat, Payrolls Friday

Semiconductor giant Broadcom (AVGO) outperformed estimates on top and bottom lines this afternoon.

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Mark Vickery

Inflation Controlled: ADP, Labor Costs, Jobless Claims

While ADP shows only 99K jobs filled last month, Unit Labor Costs came in half of expectations.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Rate Cut Alert: The Case for 50 bps?

While JOLTS numbers don't beg for a 50 bps rate cut in two weeks, depleted jobs numbers to close the week just might.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Again; Trade Deficit and Dick's Q2 Improve

While the latest Trade Deficit was slimmer than expected, Dick's (DKS) and Dollar Tree (DLTR) report vastly different Q2 results.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Sell Off as Labor Market Data Looms

This was the worst single trading day for tech stocks two years -- the worst for the chips segment since 2020.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Ahead of "Jobs Week"

This is the latest Jobs Week, and one that comes only a week before the next FOMC meeting.

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