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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Hurricane Milton and the Economic Outlook

Florida has an economy bigger than Spain's but just smaller than South Korea's, and Milton will be the second major hurricane to hit the state in as many weeks.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Bounce Back Behind Mag-7 Momentum

The tech-heavy Nasdaq led the way higher - +259 points, +1.45% - followed by the S&P +0.97% and the blue-chip Dow +0.30%.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Bounce Back Ahead of Big Data: CPI, Q3 Earnings

On Thursday and Friday of this week, we'll see Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) figures out for September.

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Pre-Markets in Red, Q3 Earnings of Major Banks and CPI Data in Focus

U.S. stock futures are trading in negative territory to start the second week of October.

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Mark Vickery

Goldilocks September Jobs Numbers: +254K, +4.1% Unemployment

Better-than-expected jobs numbers, lower unemployment and a temporary end to the dockworkers' strike are sending pre-market futures higher this morning.

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Mark Vickery

ISM Services Jump, Markets Dip Ahead of Jobs Report

The past five months of job growth has deteriorated significantly from the previous five months.

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Mark Vickery

New Jobless Claims 225K: Lukewarm Ahead of Friday's BLS Report

Jobless Claims remain very well-behaved numbers overall, especially after mid-summer we were seeing 250K new claims, which helped foment a bit of fear in the labor market.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Up +143K, an Improvement on Private-Sector Payrolls

ADP released private-sector payrolls this morning, and results were better than anticipated.

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Mark Vickery

Busy Day of Econ Reports, Strikes and Global Strife

With the attack of Iran on Israel earlier today, in addition to the dock strike across a large swath of the U.S., we saw more market-impacting news than we had even put on the calendar.

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Mark Vickery

JOLTS, Manufacturing, Construction, Nike: A Full Day for the Market

Manufacturing looks to continue progressing toward breakeven, while JOLTS data is expected to be mild. Plus Nike (NKE) earnings.

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Mark Vickery

Good Q3 for the Stock Market; Can Q4 Keep Up the Pace?

Q3 is closing strong behind hopefulness regarding further interest rate cuts, including companies in the Homebuilding space.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Lower Ahead of Jobs Data This Week

Numerous jobs reports will command much of this week's market attention.

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Mark Vickery

PCE In-Line, Income and Spending Lower in August

"Soft landings" could only look moderately more "soft" than these PCE numbers this morning.

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Mark Vickery

S&P Sets New Closing High; COST Mixed in Fiscal Q4

Ex-fuel and foreign exchange costs, Costco saw +6.9% gains year over year, demonstrating the importance of lower gasoline prices to its top line.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims 218K, Q2 GDP +3.0%, Durable Goods Unchanged

A plethora of new economic data has hit the tape this morning, and none of it has caused an unraveling in the gains made so far.

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Mark Vickery

Dow, S&P Take a Break Ahead of Eventful Stock Market Thursday

Micron (MU) shares are up big following a strong Q4 report Wednesday afternoon.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Flat on Mortgage Refi, Earnings Data

We're riding a string of new all-time highs for two major indexes: 11 of 12 sessions have closed higher for the S&P, 10 of 12 for the blue-chip Dow.

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Mark Vickery

Fresh Closing Highs for Dow, S&P; KBH, SFIX Lower on Earnings

New all-time high closes for the Dow and S&P 500 continue apace with the past few days of trading.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Swing to Green; Case-Shiller Home Prices +5%

While home prices for July hit a new record high, they came in below estimates on the latest Case-Shiller index.

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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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