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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Mixed Markets Reflect Weaker Jobs, Still-Strong Consumer

While the jobs market continues to lose steam, Retail Sales provided some reasons to be cheerful.

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Mark Vickery

Jobs Come In at +64K in November, Unemployment +4.6%

Today's Unemployment Rate is the fifth straight month higher, assuming October does not remain a blank space.

LENNegative Net Change QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

John Blank

Finally! U.S. Federal Jobs Data - Global Week Ahead

The shutdown-delayed U.S. jobs report for November will shed light on the extent of labor market weakening that could help determine the Federal Reserve's next rate move.

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Mark Vickery

Final Full Trading Week of 2025 Filled with Data

Delayed jobs and inflation reports will finally be in focus, along with normal-cycle economic reports in this last full trading week of the year and a few off-season earnings reports.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Mixed Ahead of Consequential Week of Data

Doubts continue about the levels of AI infrastructure spending, and whether they are sustainable into the new year.

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Mark Vickery

Dow, S&P 500 and Russell 2000 Close at New Highs

Only the tech-heavy Nasdaq -- hands down the index leader for the third year in a row -- dipped slightly today.

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Mark Vickery

More Good News for Pre-market Trading: Jobless Claims & More

Weekly Jobless Claims and the U.S. Trade Balance came in better than expected, for the most part. Bond yields are even winding down off near-term highs.

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Mark Vickery

A Dovish Message Within a Hawkish Rate Cut

Starting in two days, the Fed will be purchasing $40 billion in Treasury bills, maintaining its balance sheet with an "ample level of reserves."

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Remain "Wait & See" Ahead of Fed Decision

We expect a narrow range of trading to continue until at least after today's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision on monetary policy.

ORCLPositive Net Change ADBENegative Net Change SNPSPositive Net Change JILLNegative Net Change CHWYPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Stay Flat Second-Straight Day, 10-Year Yield Rises

The small-cap Russell 2000 looked headed for a new record all-time closing high before petering out in the final trading minutes.

CBRLNegative Net Change CASYPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-markets "Risk Off" Ahead of Wednesday's Fed Decision

Small businesses were positive, and October JOLTS data comes out after the bell.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mostly Lower on Inflation Uncertainty

Bond yields tacked higher on the day to +4.17% on the 10-year, nearly 20 basis points higher than we saw just a couple short weeks ago.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Up for Nasdaq and Russell 2000, Flat for Dow

Following a fairly meaningful dip the week before Thanksgiving, we've regained much of our upward trajectory.

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Mark Vickery

Netflix to Buy Warner Brothers for $72 Billion, PCE Data Delayed

Netflix streaming services will now join CNN, HBO Max, Major League Baseball, DC Studios, the Food Network and HGTV, to name just a few.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flatten on Waning Rate Cut Exuberance

We appear to still be wallowing in some of that good feeling regarding next week's interest rate cut.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Puzzlingly Light, Lowest in 3 Years

The current weakness in the labor market may be due to letting retirees' jobs expire, or pink slips accompanied by longer-term severance payments.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Gain on Fed Rate Cut Likelihood - CRM, FIVE Beat & Raise

Weak jobs figures from ADP has helped solidify the belief that another 25 basis-point (bps) rate cut is coming next week.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Disappoints: -32K Private Sector Jobs Last Month

Small businesses lost -120K jobs last month, the biggest decline since the Covid pandemic in 2020.

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Mark Vickery

Market Indexes Stay Mostly Green Ahead of ADP Wednesday

We haven't seen back-to-back positive ADP jobs numbers since April and May of this year, illustrating the difficulties within the domestic labor market in 2025.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Move Back into the Green, SIG Beats by +293%

Signet Jewelers reported earnings nearly 4x higher than the consensus estimate.

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Mark Vickery

Holiday Shopping Gets Off to a Good Start

Today is Cyber Monday, anticipated to be the second-highest shopping day of the inaugural weekend of the holiday season.

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Mark Vickery

Black Friday Shows Mixed Signals Ahead of Holiday Shopping

Expectations are for record-high retail revenues this weekend, but less spent per household.

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Mark Vickery

Market Participants Thankful Ahead of the Open

Pre-market futures are in the green again this hour and holding steady through the release of a few key pieces of data this morning.

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Mark Vickery

Rate Cuts Back On? Markets Trade Like They Are

News on a prospective new Fed Chair is giving market participants permission to price in multiple rate cuts once again, perhaps starting next month.

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Mark Vickery

Big Morning of Data: Any of It Good?

Retail Sales, PPI, Weekly ADP and retail earnings reports all hit the tape ahead of the opening bell.

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