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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Markets Strengthen Ahead of Friday CPI Report

All major indexes were up for the day, from +0.31% on the Dow to +1.22% on the small-cap Russell 2000.

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Pre-markets Mostly Lower on Biggest Earnings Day of the Week

American Airlines and T-Mobile are among the reportees ahead of the open. Intel and Ford are later.

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Markets Close Off Session Lows - Q3 Earnings Continue

The S&P 500 lost -35 points, -0.53%, and the Nasdaq was -213 points, -0.93%. The small-cap Russell 2000 was down -1.41% on the day.

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Q3 Earnings Bonanza Pulls a Flat Pre-Market: T, TMO, TSLA, etc.

Q3 earnings reports released yesterday afternoon did not quite have the positive sheen we've seen elsewhere this far into earnings season.

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Markets Reflect Flattish - Q3 Earnings from NFLX, TXN, MAT

While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were modestly on either side of zero, the Dow finished the session up +0.47% and the small-cap Russell 2000 was -0.49%.

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Cornucopia of Q3 Earnings: GE, GM & More

Major market indexes rebounded into the green over the past month in what has so far been a fairly turbulent October, and are back to all-time highs.

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Strong Day for Market Indexes - AAPL at New All-Time High

Apple (AAPL) stock rose +3.94% today to $262 per share -- its highest close ever, and the first such all-time closing high since late 2024.

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Pre-markets Let It Ride from Friday's Gains

Hopefulness prevails that Q3 earnings season will continue posting strong results from the past three months.

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Friday Pre-markets Fighting Out of the Red

Yesterday brought a significant drop, especially in small-cap stocks, from all-time highs earlier in the week.

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Markets Retreat on Regional Bank Issues

A $50 million wrinkle at Zions Bancorp was enough for traders to start questioning the bull market.

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Pre-markets Continue to Rise - Q3 Earnings & Philly Fed

We're devoid some key economic data with this protracted government shutdown today: Retail Sales and Producer Price Index (PPI) for September, as well as Weekly Jobless Claims.

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Markets Mostly Up, Russell 2000 Sets New Closing High

The biggest movers on the day were the Nasdaq, +148 points or +0.66%, and the small-cap Russell 2000 +24 points, +0.97%.

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Pre-markets Strengthen on Solid Q3 Bank Earnings

We also see another better-than-expected manufacturing report out of New York State.

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Pre-markets Volatile as Q3 Bank Earnings Come Out

The market continues to work toward some equilibrium amid plenty of near-term challenges.

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Markets Rebound Nicely Ahead of Q3 Earnings Season

Even though we've seen more than a dozen companies already officially report Q3 earnings results this period, Q3 earnings season really kicks off with the release of earnings from some of the biggest banks on Wall Street.

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Pre-markets Filling Gaps to Start New Trading Week

Pre-market futures are climbing this morning, filling in some of the deep holes dug Friday.

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Pre-markets Up Slightly to Start Friday Trading

We're devoid of major market catalysts until Q3 earnings season builds next week, when the Big Banks begin reporting on Tuesday morning.

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Party Rally Running Out of Fuel

What can be expected to pull market trading interest back up to earlier levels? Tough to see.

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Pre-markets Flat as Q3 Earnings Season Kicks Off

There are no Weekly Jobless Claims numbers this Thursday, now for the second week in a row.

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S&P 500, Nasdaq Close at Fresh Highs on FOMC Minutes

Market participants hadn't been sure we'd see additional rate cuts into the end of the year, but today's release of the September Fed minutes put that to rest.

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Pre-Markets Up Ahead of Fed Minutes Release

Expected later today are the prepared minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in mid-September.

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Markets Take a Break from Setting New All-Time Highs

Red closes among all major indexes today snapped a seven-day winning streak on the S&P 500.

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Do AI Trees Grow to the Sky?

How much can OpenAI front-run its Stargate project, and how much more money can it borrow to finance these things in the near term?

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Shutdown Continues, Open AI Taps AMD, Fifth Third Buys Comerica

Likely a big reason the tech-heavy Nasdaq continues to set higher and higher all-time levels is that investment in AI is a reality.

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No News Is Good News: Pre-markets Up on Dormant BLS Report

All major indexes are in the green for the trading week, plus-mid-single digits for the month, and double digits (except for the Dow, +9%) year to date.

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