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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up on PPI Results, More Earnings Reports

Year over year, headline PPI reached +3.5%. This is 20 bps ahead of expectations, though equal to the previous month???s revised number.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Back from Deep Selloff; APP Kills in Q4

Market indexes fought back courageously after sinking an hour before the opening bell on hotter-than-expected CPI numbers.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Grows Uncomfortably Warm, Pre-Markets Sell-Off

Pre-market futures are sinking like a stone on this morning's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed on Powell Testimony, Q4 Earnings

The Fed Chair told the Senate that the U.S. economy was "strong overall," and again asserted that the Fed does not need "to be in a hurry to adjust [its] stance."

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Take Some Froth Off the Top; Powell to Speak, Q4 Results Continue

For now, we're seeing major indexes pointed lower to start the new trading day.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Steady, Positive; Q4 Earnings Keep Rolling

Indexes mostly shrugged off +25% steel tariffs announced by President Trump; VRTX, LSCC report for Q4.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Green After Friday's Selloff

Over the past month, the blue-chip Dow leads all major indexes, +5.8%, followed by the Russell, +4.4%.

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Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs Numbers +143K, Unemployment Rate +4.0%

The quick-take on this reaction is that the market recognizes that a healthy labor market subtracts from the possibility a new interest rate cut.

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Mark Vickery

Flat Day Ahead of Friday Jobs Report; Q4 Results for AMZN, SKX, EXPE

+170K jobs are expected to have been filled last month, below the December tally of +256K.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Higher on Easy Jobless Claims, Q4 Earnings

Last week, +219K Initial Jobless Claims were made -- higher than the slightly upwardly revised +208K.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Jump Ahead of the Close; QCOM, F, ARM Beat Estimates After

Qualcomm (QCOM) notched another big beat on its Q1 bottom line, with earnings of $3.41 per share flying past the $2.93 for the Zacks consensus.

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ADP Jobs Report Strong in January; Q4 Earnings Roll Along

ADP unveiled +183K new private-sector jobs last month -- well ahead of the +150K expected.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Reverse Tariff Panic; Many Q4 Beats After Hours

Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) posted beats on both top and bottom lines after today's close.

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Pre-Markets Flat Ahead of JOLTS; Q4 Earnings for PFE, PYPL, PEP & More

Pfizer (PFE) put up its most impressive quarterly numbers in recent memory today.

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Mark Vickery

Markets React to Softening Trade Tariff Policy

An almost immediate retraction of a 25% tariff on imported goods from Mexico prodded this relief trade.

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Mark Vickery

Trade War Reality Sets into Pre-Markets

The Dow has so far shed -600 points, the S&P 500 is -100 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq is -400 points at this hour.

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Mark Vickery

December PCE Steady with Expectations; Plenty of Mixed Q4 Earnings

PCE results were as in-line with expectations as one could expect: +0.3% on headline month over month, +2.6% year over year.

CVXPositive Net Change XOMPositive Net Change CLNegative Net Change ABBVPositive Net Change

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Markets Modestly in the Green Ahead of Earnings for AAPL, INTC, V & More

A last-minute swing toward the upside in trading ahead of the session close has kept a Trump announcement on new tariffs at bay for now.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, GDP Fall; More Earnings

Just when we think Weekly Jobless Claims may break out to a new level higher, they pull back down.

AAPLNegative Net Change MANegative Net Change LUVNegative Net Change UPSPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Fed Holds Steady, Big Earnings Afternoon: MSFT, TSLA, META & More

Microsoft, Meta, IBM and ServiceNow all outperformed earnings estimates, while Tesla came up short.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Modestly Lower on Weak Trade Numbers, Good Earnings

A headline U.S. Trade Deficit of -$122.1 billion last month was easily the lowest print for all of 2024.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Stage Shallow Rebound from Monday Sell-off

We continue our Q4 earnings parade, particularly after Wednesday's close.

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Mark Vickery

Durable Goods Stronger, Q4 Earnings Mixed Pre-Market

Pre-market futures are mixed, with the Dow -14 points, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq +19 and +96 points, respectively, and the small-cap Russell 2000 -0.6 points.

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Mark Vickery

New Trading Week Starts in the Red

A general re-think on AI spending led the bearish sentiment, with China's reported DeepSeek AI open-source module reportedly having been developed in two months and costing no more than $6 million.

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Mark Vickery

Ease-of-Use AI Platform DeepSeek Send U.S. Pre-Markets Reeling

We're looking at a big drop in pre-market equities to start the last week on the first month of 2025.

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