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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

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 WBDNegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change PSKYNegative Net Change

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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

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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.

ADPNegative Net Change DGPositive Net Change KRPositive Net Change BMOPositive Net Change BBWNegative Net Change

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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 KRPositive Net Change ULTAPositive Net Change BMOPositive Net Change FIVEPositive Net Change SNOWNegative Net Change DOCUNegative Net Change

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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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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.

ADPNegative Net Change AEONegative Net Change MRVLPositive Net Change MSTRPositive Net Change CRWDNegative 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.

ADPNegative Net Change AEONegative Net Change MRVLPositive Net Change SIGPositive Net Change CRWDNegative 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.

MANegative Net Change CRMNegative Net Change ADPNegative Net Change MPositive Net Change DGPositive Net Change DLTRPositive Net Change AEONegative Net Change ADBENegative Net Change CRWDNegative 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.

CMENegative Net Change ADBENegative 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 UALPositive Net Change DEPositive Net Change AALPositive 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.

HPQNegative Net Change DELLPositive Net Change URBNPositive 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.

ADPNegative Net Change KSSPositive Net Change ANFNegative Net Change BBYPositive Net Change DELLPositive Net Change URBNPositive Net Change ADSKNegative Net Change DKSPositive 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.

ADPNegative Net Change ANFNegative Net Change BBYPositive Net Change APositive Net Change DKSPositive Net Change TSLANegative Net Change MSTRPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change BABAPositive Net Change ZMNegative Net Change HOODPositive 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?

BBYPositive Net Change DELLPositive Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change DEPositive Net Change DKSPositive 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 QQQNegative Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive 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 ROSTPositive Net Change INTUNegative 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 PANWNegative 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 TJXPositive 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 TJXPositive 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.

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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 SBHPositive 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.

GSPositive Net Change MSPositive Net Change CPositive Net Change AMDPositive Net Change CSCONegative Net Change DISNegative Net Change AMATPositive Net Change IONQPositive Net Change RGTIPositive Net Change QBTSPositive Net Change