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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Back, Stay Red; MSFT, GOOGL, SNAP Beat on Late Earnings

Big gains in the after-market for Snap, Alphabet and Microsoft may keep the trading week in the green.

INTCPositive Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change CATPositive Net Change LUVPositive Net Change AALPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change SNAPPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Is "Bad News" Still "Good News" for the Market?

If we're looking for the Fed to lower interest rates, don't we need softer economic data like what we saw today?

INTCPositive Net Change AZNPositive Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change CATPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change LUVPositive Net Change AALPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change SNAPPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Late Trading Dominated by Q1 Earnings: META, F, CMG & More

While Chipotle and Ford gained on after-market beats, Meta and ServiceNow are selling off.

FPositive Net Change CMGPositive Net Change NOWPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Boeing Mixed in Q1, TMO Beats; Durable Goods In-Line

Boeing posted a slimmer loss per share while Thermo Fisher outperformed. Durable Goods performed as expected.

BANegative Net Change FPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change CMGPositive Net Change TMOPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Tesla Up +7% After Q1 Misses, TXN, Visa Beat on Top & Bottom

Noted in Tesla's letter to investors today was the +130% growth in A.I. training.

BANegative Net Change FPositive Net Change TXNPositive Net Change VPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change CMGPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up, Q1 Earnings Beats for GM, UPS, Pepsi

Ahead of economic prints like Friday's PCE report, Q1 earnings are starting to come in hot and heavy.

TXNPositive Net Change VPositive Net Change UPSPositive Net Change PEPPositive Net Change GMPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change SPOTPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Close in the Green; Mag 7 Earnings This Week

With Tesla (TSLA) reporting Tuesday afternoon, Meta (META) on Wednesday and Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL) the following afternoon, we're in strong Mag 7 earnings territory.

WFCPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change CNegative Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change CDNSPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Busy Week Hoping to Shake Some Life into Markets

Much of what concerns us will have been addressed by the end of the week, including important economic reports and Q1 earnings season hitting a higher gear.

MSFTPositive Net Change VPositive Net Change VZPositive Net Change UPSPositive Net Change PEPPositive Net Change ZIONPositive Net Change GMPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Point to a Lower Week; P&G, AmEx, Fifth Third Beat

Market indices have stemmed the tide from triple-digit losses early this morning, but are still in the red.

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Mark Vickery

Big Q1 Beats After the Close; Markets Struggle to Gain

Netflix, Taiwan Semi and Intuitive Surgical all handily beat Q1 estimates, but only one is trading in the green this afternoon.

NFLXPositive Net Change ISRGPositive Net Change TSMNo Net Change

Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Low & Steady, Philly Fed Surprises Higher

Initial Jobless Claims remain the steadiest of all employment metrics over the past six months or so.

NFLXPositive Net Change DHIPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Market Slips Again as Q1 Earnings Roll On

Tell me if this sounds familiar: market indices couldn't hold onto morning gains.

CSXPositive Net Change NFLXPositive Net Change LVSPositive Net Change SLGPositive Net Change DHIPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Try to Shake Off April Blues

Late March highs -- including all-time S&P levels -- have given way to profit-taking and existential concerns.

ABTPositive Net Change CSXPositive Net Change NFLXPositive Net Change TRVPositive Net Change LVSPositive Net Change SLGPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed as Q1 Earnings, Powell Control News Headlines

Wednesday morning brings us more Q1 earnings reports, including from Abbott Labs (ABT) and U.S. Bancorp (USB).

ABTPositive Net Change UNHPositive Net Change UALPositive Net Change NFLXPositive Net Change PGPositive Net Change JBHTPositive Net Change AXPPositive Net Change USBPositive Net Change IBKRPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Housing Numbers Shrink as Q1 Earnings Heat Up: BAC, JNJ, UNH

Both Housing Starts and Building Permits missed expectations, while BofA, J&J and UnitedHealth all beat on earnings.

BACPositive Net Change UNHPositive Net Change JNJPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Marks Cannot Sustain Rebound Amid High Bond Rates

The 10-year bond yield was up on a specter of higher interest rates for longer.

CRMPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Goldman Sachs Outperform Expectations

Today's Retail Sales headline more than doubled expectations: +0.7% from the +0.3% consensus estimate.

GSPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change CNegative Net Change CVXNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Import/Exports Send Pre-Markets Lower; Big Banks Beat

Import Prices came in hotter than expected, while Exports came down considerably.

WFCPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change CNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Almost Through a Difficult Week

The Nasdaq now sits at year-to-date highs -- which are also all-time highs!

QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Salved by Mixed PPI, Low Jobless Claims

Pre-market indices shrank their further sell-off levels to mixed, almost instantaneously with the release of March PPI figures.

QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Fall on High CPI, Rate-Cut Speculation

These aren't easy realizations for the market to absorb, especially coming off such high levels only a couple weeks ago.

QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Robust March CPI Spooks Pre-Markets

Fifteen minutes after the CPI release, we're now -490 points on the Dow, -77 on the S&P and -225 points on the Nasdaq.

DALPositive Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Competition for A.I.? CPI, Delta Q1 Ahead of Wednesday's Open

The most recent Inflation Rate at +3.2% is the mean average on the Inflation Rate going back to October of last year.

AMZNPositive Net Change INTCPositive Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change DALPositive Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Upward Drift in Tuesday Pre-Markets

Sandwiched in between two major economic metrics, investors apparently feel pretty good about where they are.

TSMNo Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Flat Ahead of CPI, Q1 Earnings

In short, don't expect our present hesitation to last very long.

DALPositive Net Change FASTPositive Net Change STZPositive Net Change KMXNegative Net Change