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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

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 MPositive Net Change

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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 MSTRPositive Net Change CRWDPositive Net Change

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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

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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.

MAPositive Net Change CRMPositive Net Change ADPPositive Net Change MPositive Net Change DGPositive Net Change DLTRPositive Net Change AEONegative Net Change ADBEPositive Net Change CRWDPositive Net Change

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Black Friday Shows Mixed Signals Ahead of Holiday Shopping

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

CMEPositive Net Change ADBEPositive Net Change AFRMNegative Net Change

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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.

DALNegative Net Change UALNegative Net Change DEPositive Net Change AALNegative Net Change

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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

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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 ANFPositive Net Change BBYNegative Net Change DELLPositive Net Change URBNNegative Net Change ADSKPositive Net Change DKSNo Net Change BABAPositive Net Change

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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 ANFPositive Net Change BBYNegative Net Change APositive Net Change DKSNo Net Change TSLANegative Net Change MSTRPositive Net Change GOOGLNegative Net Change BABAPositive Net Change ZMPositive Net Change HOODNegative Net Change IBITPositive Net Change

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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 NVDAPositive Net Change DEPositive Net Change DKSNo Net Change

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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.

NVDAPositive Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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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.

NVDAPositive Net Change ROSTNegative Net Change INTUPositive Net Change GAPNegative Net Change

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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 NVDAPositive Net Change

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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.

NVDAPositive Net Change PANWPositive Net Change

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Pre-markets Recoup Some Losses Ahead of NVIDIA Earnings

Ahead of NVIDIA's Q3 numbers this afternoon, TGT, LOW and TJX all outperformed on quarterly bottom-line estimates.

TGTPositive Net Change TJXNegative Net Change LOWPositive Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change

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Pre-markets Stay Red Ahead of NVIDIA Earnings, Jobs Data

Until one or both of these brings a sigh of relief to market participants, we'll likely see a "risk-off" trading environment.

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Econ Data Comes Out This Week, Along with NVDA, WMT Earnings

New jobs data joins Trump's food tariff exemptions on the last big earnings week of Q3.

TGTPositive Net Change TJXNegative Net Change WMTPositive Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change HDPositive Net Change

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Pre-markets Pick Up Where Thursday Left Off: Down

A plurality of Fed members have by now spoken up this week doubting that 25 basis-point (bps) cuts will continue indefinitely.

SMFGNegative Net Change MUFGNegative Net Change

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Pulling Back for a Fresh Look at This Recent Pullback

Fed members are openly having second thoughts about further cuts to interest rates, especially with no new data on the jobs or inflation front.

MRKPositive Net Change BRK.BNegative Net Change AMATPositive Net Change AUPositive Net Change BZHNegative Net Change PLTRNegative Net Change

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Pre-markets Down on AI Spending, Disney Earnings, Fed Rate Speculation

No new government data yet on jobs or inflation. Disney beats, but shares are falling in early trading.

DISNegative Net Change AMATPositive Net Change SBHNegative Net Change

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Big Banks Up, Speculative AI Down in Hump Day Markets

The Dow closed over 48K for the first time, while the Nasdaq gave back -0.25% today. And Cisco posted a Q1 beat late.

GSNegative Net Change MSPositive Net Change CNegative Net Change AMDNegative Net Change CSCOPositive Net Change DISNegative Net Change AMATPositive Net Change IONQNegative Net Change RGTINegative Net Change QBTSNegative Net Change

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Pre-markets Up as Government Plans to Re-open

Not to say we're definitely going to get this week's planned CPI, PPI, Weekly Jobless Claims and Retail Sales reports, but they are still a possibility.

TMENo Net Change ONONPositive Net Change MHNegative Net Change

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Mixed Pre-Markets on Weaker Jobs & Hiring Data, More Q3 Earnings

Weekly private-sector hiring and Small Business Optimism lagged, while the blue-chip Dow remains in the green at this hour.

MSFTNegative Net Change ADPPositive Net Change AUPositive Net Change BYNDNegative Net Change METANegative Net Change NBISNegative Net Change

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Big Bounceback Trading Day for AI & Tech

This was the best single-day of trading on the Nasdaq since May, led by chipmakers generally and the AI infrastructure trade more specifically.

CSCOPositive Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change ORCLPositive Net Change DISNegative Net Change AMATPositive Net Change AUPositive Net Change TSMPositive Net Change BYNDNegative Net Change RGTINegative Net Change NBISNegative Net Change CRWVNegative Net Change PSKYNegative Net Change

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Pre-Markets Up as Government Shutdown Looks to End

We don't officially see the government opened this morning, but a major impediment from the minority party is being removed.

TSNPositive Net Change MNDYNegative Net Change RGTINegative Net Change PSKYNegative Net Change