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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Q4 Earnings from Wall Street On Deck: JPMorgan, Citi, BofA and Wells Fargo

We turn our attention to Q4 earnings season, which picks up steam Friday morning before the opening bell.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Warmer than Expected; Jobless Claims Stay Low

Core CPI year over year of +3.9% is the first sub-4% print since May 2021.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Trade Higher Ahead of Thursday's CPI

Core CPI year over year looks to shed 20 bps to +3.8%, which would be the lowest print since the latter half of 2021.

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Mark Vickery

Quiet Before the Economic Data Storm

Among big news on deck this week are CPI and PPI data, Weekly Jobless Claims and the start of Q4 earnings season.

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Mark Vickery

Juniper to Be Bought by HPE; Fake News on Bitcoin ETFs

This is a long-awaited development for the fledgling asset class, one which may welcome new investors into the crypto fold.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Trim Monday Rally; Trade Deficit Comes Down

The S&P 500 put up its best single trading day since early November, and is within striking distance of fresh all-time highs.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Party Like It's 2023!

The Nasdaq, boosted by a new graphics chips announcement from NVIDIA (NVDA), beat the field, +319 points, +2.20%. The small-cap Russell 2000 rose +1.94%.

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Mark Vickery

Trading Week Backloaded with CPI, PPI, Q4 Earnings

We'll see a slow trickle of quarterly earnings reports this week until the spigot opens Friday morning with Q4 results from some of the biggest Wall Street banks.

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Mark Vickery

Jobs +216K, Unemployment 3.7%: Better than Expected

If you're looking for data that will allow the Fed to put some slack in interest rates near-term, these numbers are a disappointment.

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Mark Vickery

Early 2024 Markets Sweep Up Excesses

All major indices are in the red so far in the first trading week of 2024, with the small-cap Russell down nearly -5% in just three days.

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Mark Vickery

ADP, Jobless Claims Better than Expected

ADP private-sector payrolls for December came in hotter than expected: 164K versus 130K consensus.

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Mark Vickery

On Inflation Management and High Expectations

If there's one sure way for the Fed to instigate an economic recession, it would be by keeping rates abnormally high for too long of a time.

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Mark Vickery

Jobs Week to Kick Off with JOLTS; Fed Minutes Today

We'll also get private-sector payrolls from ADP (ADP) for December along with Weekly Jobless Claims tomorrow, and the all-important Employment Situation report Friday morning.

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Mark Vickery

On the Last Trading Day of 2023, Looking Ahead to Jobs Week

As always, we look for clues as to where things are headed in 2024, and next week brings a fresh Jobs Week.

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Mark Vickery

Labor, Housing Stay Healthy Going into 2024

The Dow is striking new all-time highs (not seen in almost two years, by the way), and the S&P is too, but we're still off November 2021 all-time highs on the Nasdaq and Russell.

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Mark Vickery

Santa Claus Rally Losing Steam; Jobless Claims Up a Bit

The economy has done better than expected through 2023 -- how long can this continue?

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Mark Vickery

A Couple Important Points About 2024

Bullishness in the market and economic structures for 2024 will not trigger a cut from the Fed.

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Mark Vickery

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus Rally

The Russell is up an astounding +26% from late October, largely thanks to signaled interest rate cuts from the Fed in 2024.

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Mark Vickery

After Big Gains, Is a "Santa Claus Rally" Possible?

Any Santa Claus rally from here would likely be a resuming of bullish narratives followed over the past couple weeks.

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Mark Vickery

November PCE Continues Shrinking Inflation Narrative

Results had been expected to drift favorably downward toward a "soft landing" for the economy; in reality, the numbers are even better than expected.

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Mark Vickery

Bouncing Back for the Day, Quarter and Full Year

All in all, it's been a lovely couple months on the stock market; you can say Christmas came early this year.

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Mark Vickery

Bring on Santa! Economic Prints (Mostly) Favorable

After Q3 GDP, jobless claims and Philly Fed, results in the markets have been to drive higher while yield rates on 2-year and 10-year Treasury bonds have been falling.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fall from (Near-) Record Highs

This afternoon, the "pivot party" that began last week in the wake of pending interest rate cuts in 2024 is now over.

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Mark Vickery

Could Supply Chain Disruptions End the Party?

It's likely some profit-booking going on in the sell-off, but it's always worth it to pay attention to what's going on.

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Mark Vickery

Dow Hits New All-Time High, S&P Within 1%

A late surge into the close has brought the blue-chip Down to a new all-time high: +251 points, +0.68%, to 37,557 for the first time ever.

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