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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

First Full Week of Q2 Earnings, PCE Out Friday

No fewer than 845 companies are scheduled to report this week, including Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) Tuesday.

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Mark Vickery

Global IT Outage Hits Pre-Markets; AXP, TRV Beat in Q2

The "Blue Death Screen" IT outage originated at CrowdStrike (CRWD) this morning from an "operating defect."

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Mark Vickery

Markets Book Profits; Netflix, Intuitive Beat Estimates in Q2

Year-to-date, the Nasdaq is still +20%, the S&P +16%, the Russell +9% and the Dow +7.5%.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Rise Again, D.R. Horton Posts Strong Quarter

+1.867 million longer-term jobless claims is the highest single-week figure we've seen since November of 2021.

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Mark Vickery

Big Rotation Continues; DFS Beats Big in Q2, United Mixed

Discover nearly doubled earnings expectations, while United missed on revenues and Chuy's gets a buyer.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Book Profits; Housing Starts, J&J Q2 Up

Pre-market futures are down at this hour, but not apparently as a result of any new reports ahead of the bell.

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Mark Vickery

Econ Reports, Q2 Earnings Take July Rate Cut Off the Table

Any investors still hoping for a July rate cut based on economic prints, we can uncross our fingers now.

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Mark Vickery

Dow Closes at New High as Q2 Earnings Season Heats Up

Earnings season only picks up steam in the weeks to come.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up as 1st Full Week of Q2 Earnings Begins

Goldman Sachs (GS) and BlackRock (BLK) both beat on Q2 earnings this morning, and we're just getting started.

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Mark Vickery

PPI Swells Higher, Big Banks Beat Q2 Estimates

Today's PPI numbers were not quite as accommodating as yesterday's CPI.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Sell the News After Satisfying CPI

The Inflation Rate came in better than expected for a soft landing, but the S&P and Nasdaq posted their worst trading day in two months.

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Mark Vickery

CPI, Jobless Claims Brings Goldilocks Scenario

Today brings us the slimmest Inflation Rate we've seen since March 2021 -- back when inflation was going the opposite direction.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Race Ahead Before CPI Data Thursday

It was the single-best trading day on the Dow since May, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted yet more all-time closing highs.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Creep Higher Ahead of Powell & Busy Late Week

Both CPI data and Q2 earnings season begin hit the tape tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, pre-market futures creep ever higher.

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Mark Vickery

Powell Sees Cooling Economy, Traders See Coming Rate Cut

It's doubtful big market moves will happen before big inflation data comes out later this week.

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Mark Vickery

On Powell, Housing Supply and Helen of Troy Earnings

For all the downward pressure on the housing market, prices are showing strong resistance to coming down in price.

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Mark Vickery

Consumer Credit Rises; Powell on Capitol Hill Tomorrow

It is strongly expected Fed Chair Powell will be asked lots of questions about when the Fed plans on lowering interest rates.

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Mark Vickery

Back-Ended Week: CPI, PPI, Q2 Earnings

Major inflation reports, combined with some of the top companies at the front end of Q2 earnings season, will bring us to a new level of understanding.

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Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs +206K, Big Downward Revisions

Job revisions to the previous two months reached triple-digits, -110K, to 218K in May and 108K in April.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Payrolls +150K; Jobless Claims Climb Higher

While ADP private-sector payrolls were light of estimates, new and longer-term jobless claims reached new multi-year highs.

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Mark Vickery

Q2 Auto Sales, May JOLTS Data Higher than Expected

Q2 auto sales proved to be a pretty good quarter, and JOLTS data for May was also higher than expected.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Look for Weaker JOLTS Data; Tesla Outperforms in Q2

May JOLTS data, out today at 10am ET, is expected to show 7.9 million job openings that month. This would be the lowest we've seen since February 2021.

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Mark Vickery

Holiday-Shortened Jobs Week: What Would Downward Surprises Bring?

Projections currently are for fewer than 200K new jobs filled last month and more than 230K new jobless claims for last week.

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Mark Vickery

PCE Keeps "Soft Landing" Intact, Pre-Markets Shrinking

The good news from a wider perspective is that we're back down, consistently, to inflation levels we haven't seen in more than three years.

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Mark Vickery

Pending Home Sales, NIKE Miss Projections

Markets closed marginally in the green, but NIKE is down over -5% following fiscal Q4 earnings were reported.

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