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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Is "Bad News" Still "Good News" for the Market?

If we're looking for the Fed to lower interest rates, don't we need softer economic data like what we saw today?

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Mark Vickery

Late Trading Dominated by Q1 Earnings: META, F, CMG & More

While Chipotle and Ford gained on after-market beats, Meta and ServiceNow are selling off.

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Mark Vickery

Boeing Mixed in Q1, TMO Beats; Durable Goods In-Line

Boeing posted a slimmer loss per share while Thermo Fisher outperformed. Durable Goods performed as expected.

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Mark Vickery

Tesla Up +7% After Q1 Misses, TXN, Visa Beat on Top & Bottom

Noted in Tesla's letter to investors today was the +130% growth in A.I. training.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up, Q1 Earnings Beats for GM, UPS, Pepsi

Ahead of economic prints like Friday's PCE report, Q1 earnings are starting to come in hot and heavy.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Close in the Green; Mag 7 Earnings This Week

With Tesla (TSLA) reporting Tuesday afternoon, Meta (META) on Wednesday and Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet (GOOGL) the following afternoon, we're in strong Mag 7 earnings territory.

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Mark Vickery

Busy Week Hoping to Shake Some Life into Markets

Much of what concerns us will have been addressed by the end of the week, including important economic reports and Q1 earnings season hitting a higher gear.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Point to a Lower Week; P&G, AmEx, Fifth Third Beat

Market indices have stemmed the tide from triple-digit losses early this morning, but are still in the red.

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Mark Vickery

Big Q1 Beats After the Close; Markets Struggle to Gain

Netflix, Taiwan Semi and Intuitive Surgical all handily beat Q1 estimates, but only one is trading in the green this afternoon.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Low & Steady, Philly Fed Surprises Higher

Initial Jobless Claims remain the steadiest of all employment metrics over the past six months or so.

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Mark Vickery

Market Slips Again as Q1 Earnings Roll On

Tell me if this sounds familiar: market indices couldn't hold onto morning gains.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Try to Shake Off April Blues

Late March highs -- including all-time S&P levels -- have given way to profit-taking and existential concerns.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed as Q1 Earnings, Powell Control News Headlines

Wednesday morning brings us more Q1 earnings reports, including from Abbott Labs (ABT) and U.S. Bancorp (USB).

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Mark Vickery

Housing Numbers Shrink as Q1 Earnings Heat Up: BAC, JNJ, UNH

Both Housing Starts and Building Permits missed expectations, while BofA, J&J and UnitedHealth all beat on earnings.

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Mark Vickery

Marks Cannot Sustain Rebound Amid High Bond Rates

The 10-year bond yield was up on a specter of higher interest rates for longer.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Goldman Sachs Outperform Expectations

Today's Retail Sales headline more than doubled expectations: +0.7% from the +0.3% consensus estimate.

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Mark Vickery

Import/Exports Send Pre-Markets Lower; Big Banks Beat

Import Prices came in hotter than expected, while Exports came down considerably.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Almost Through a Difficult Week

The Nasdaq now sits at year-to-date highs -- which are also all-time highs!

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Salved by Mixed PPI, Low Jobless Claims

Pre-market indices shrank their further sell-off levels to mixed, almost instantaneously with the release of March PPI figures.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fall on High CPI, Rate-Cut Speculation

These aren't easy realizations for the market to absorb, especially coming off such high levels only a couple weeks ago.

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Mark Vickery

Robust March CPI Spooks Pre-Markets

Fifteen minutes after the CPI release, we're now -490 points on the Dow, -77 on the S&P and -225 points on the Nasdaq.

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Mark Vickery

Competition for A.I.? CPI, Delta Q1 Ahead of Wednesday's Open

The most recent Inflation Rate at +3.2% is the mean average on the Inflation Rate going back to October of last year.

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Mark Vickery

Upward Drift in Tuesday Pre-Markets

Sandwiched in between two major economic metrics, investors apparently feel pretty good about where they are.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flat Ahead of CPI, Q1 Earnings

In short, don't expect our present hesitation to last very long.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Slightly Higher Ahead of CPI, Q1 Earnings

Wednesday will bring us new Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for March, followed by the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) print the next morning.

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