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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

A Busy Morning: Jobless Claims, Durable Goods & Q1 Earnings

While Jobless Claims and Durable Goods outperformed, we saw mixed results in Q1 earnings this morning.

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Mark Vickery

Markets in Green 2nd Straight Day; Q1 Reports for CMG, IBM & More

While Chipotle and Whirlpool missed estimates after the close, IBM, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments and Newmont Resources all posted beats.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Back Up on Softening Stance from the White House

Much of the markets' attitude seems tethered to public statements made by President Trump.

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Mark Vickery

Tesla Q1 Misses on Top & Bottom Lines, Kicks Can on Guidance

Tesla (TSLA) posted its sixth earnings miss in the past seven quarters, coming up -38.6% short.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up on Q1 Earnings; Tesla Reports After the Close

We have a nice handful of earnings results out this morning, but the big tuna in today's Q1 periscope is Tesla (TSLA).

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Mark Vickery

Market Indexes Tank Again, but Gold Continues to Shine

The COMEX closed today's session climbed +3.3% today to a current spot price of $3426 per ounce -- a new record high.

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Mark Vickery

Expect the Unexpected for a New Trading Week

Every week brings us big headlines, and there is nothing to suggest this will calm in the near term.

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Mark Vickery

Short Week Finishes with Netflix Q1 Beat

We'd obviously welcome any positive news on the trade tariff front over the weekend, which starts tomorrow for the markets in observance of Good Friday.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Market Drama Shifts: Dow Lower on UNH Miss

Since April 2nd, the Dow is -7.65%, the S&P 500 -6.71%, the Nasdaq -6.19% and the small-cap Russell 2000 -8.62%.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Drop Again on Fed Chair Powell's Assessment

The S&P 500 was down -1% as Powell took the stage at the Economic Club of Chicago today, and -2% when he left.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Q1 Earnings Show Signs of "Pull Forward"

A trade tariff casualty - NVIDIA - is sending the Nasdaq lower than the other major indexes ahead of the open.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flatten by the Close; Q1 Reports from UAL, IBKR, JBHT

A pause in the chaotic ping-pong game of global tariffs that began two weeks ago tomorrow has calmed the market somewhat.

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Mark Vickery

Import Prices, Empire State Come In Mild; Q1 Earnings Beats Abound

Pre-markets are down somewhat, following yesterday's +3/4-percent gain on the Dow and the S&P 500, +2/3-percent gain for the Nasdaq.

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Mark Vickery

U.S./China Trade at +125% Standoff, PPI Slides, Big Banks Report Q1

Trade between the U.S. and China -- worth $582 billion in 2024 -- has apparently ground to a halt.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Falls, Pre-Markets Give Back Some Gains

Futures are down, but better after morning economic data was released an hour ahead of the opening bell.

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Mark Vickery

Bond Market Twists Tariff Arm to 90-Day Pause

Market indexes shot up to levels not seen since the introduction of the Covid vaccine, if not well before that.

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Mark Vickery

China Cranks Up Tariff "Pain" to +84%

Pre-markets are down again, as are oil prices. Meanwhile, bond yields are going up.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Reverse Direction as Tariff Ante Upped on China

An additional +50% tariffs on Chinese imports are now getting levied as of midnight tonight.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Rocket Up on Overseas Optimism

The Japanese Nikkei index rose +6% off 18-month lows overnight, on hopes that bilateral trade talks between the U.S. and Japan are underway.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mellow as Talks About Trade Talks Commence

Market participants began to see some dialogue on the tariff beat, with certain countries willing to state publicly they are ready to negotiate trade levels with the U.S.

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Mark Vickery

Tariff Saga Starts 2nd Week, Pre-Markets Down Big Again

The American indexes are now reverberating off the market reactions around the world.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Another -2% on Good Jobs Report

China has fire a retaliatory shot in the tariff war begun on the White House lawn Wednesday.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Tank on Tariff Policy; Services PMI and Guess? Beat

Tariffs being slapped onto the U.S.'s trading partners all on the same day has only increased the levels of uncertainty for market participants.

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Mark Vickery

Tariff Policies Send Pre-Market Futures Down -4%

Economists agree this is unlike any tariff policy in U.S. history.

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Mark Vickery

Trump's Tariff Policies Sink Late Trading: QQQ -3%

There is a new effective tariff rate on dozens of countries: China +34%, Taiwan +32%, South Korea +25% and Japan +24%, to name but a few.

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