Back to top

Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

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.

COSTPositive Net Change LULUNegative Net Change AVGOPositive Net Change LOVEPositive Net Change

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."

ORCLPositive Net Change ADBENegative Net Change SNPSPositive Net Change

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.

ADPPositive Net Change CPBNegative Net Change AZOPositive Net Change GIIINegative Net Change

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.

NFLXNegative Net Change TOLPositive Net Change WBDPositive Net Change KBHPositive Net Change DHIPositive Net Change PSKYNegative Net Change

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.

ORCLPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change ADBENegative Net Change GMENegative Net Change AZOPositive Net Change TOLPositive Net Change LULUNegative Net Change AVGOPositive Net Change CASYPositive Net Change

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.

NFLXNegative Net Change WBDPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change PSKYNegative Net Change

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.

ULTAPositive Net Change HPEPositive Net Change DOCUNegative Net Change

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.

ADPPositive Net Change DGNegative Net Change KRNegative Net Change BMONegative Net Change BBWPositive Net Change

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.

CRMNegative Net Change KRNegative Net Change ULTAPositive Net Change BMONegative Net Change FIVENegative Net Change SNOWNegative Net Change DOCUNegative Net Change

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.

ADPPositive Net Change MNegative Net Change

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.

ADPPositive Net Change AEONegative Net Change MRVLNegative Net Change MSTRNegative Net Change CRWDPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

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

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

ADPPositive Net Change AEONegative Net Change MRVLNegative Net Change SIGNegative Net Change CRWDPositive Net Change

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.

MANegative Net Change CRMNegative Net Change ADPPositive Net Change MNegative Net Change DGNegative Net Change DLTRPositive Net Change AEONegative Net Change ADBENegative Net Change CRWDPositive Net Change

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.

CMENegative Net Change ADBENegative Net Change AFRMPositive Net Change

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.

DALPositive Net Change UALPositive Net Change DENegative Net Change AALPositive Net Change

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.

HPQPositive Net Change DELLPositive Net Change URBNNegative Net Change

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.

ADPPositive Net Change KSSNegative Net Change ANFNegative Net Change BBYNegative Net Change DELLPositive Net Change URBNNegative Net Change ADSKNegative Net Change DKSNegative Net Change BABANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Revenge of Tech: AI, Crypto Bounce Back

It was a strong bounce-back day for the tech space, with all "Mag 7" stocks up for the session.

ADPPositive Net Change ANFNegative Net Change BBYNegative Net Change APositive Net Change DKSNegative Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change MSTRNegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change BABANegative Net Change ZMNegative Net Change HOODNegative Net Change IBITNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Up After Week of Tech Selloffs

Much juice has been squeezed from the "AI infrastructure" orange: enough to prompt a new tech rally this week?

BBYNegative Net Change DELLPositive Net Change NVDANegative Net Change DENegative Net Change DKSNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Try Again, Begin Session in the Green

We were in a similar position yesterday, only to see the strong open to the stock market slide away into negative territory and stay there.

NVDANegative Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Reversal of Market Fortunes on Leveraged Buying Fears

What happened? Consider it something of a second thought on these positive metrics we'd seen earlier.

NVDANegative Net Change ROSTPositive Net Change INTUNegative Net Change GAPNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs, Jobless Claims, Walmart Warnings All Up Slightly

September jobs reached +119K, new claims were low at +220K and WMT beat Q3 earnings by a penny.

WMTPositive Net Change NVDANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

A Tale of Two Tech Giants: NVDA and PANW

Non-GAAP gross margins for NVIDIA reached an astounding +73.6%, with an outperformance in its Blackwell chips that not all analysts expected.

NVDANegative Net Change PANWNegative Net Change