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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Earnings Beats After the Bell: Affirm, Twilio, Disney, MGM

While Disney continues to dig itself out of its hole, Affirm adds to its stellar 2023 so far on a big revenue beat.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Keep Streak Alive; RL, BIIB Beat

The Dow rides its longest winning streak since July of this year, while the S&P and Nasdaq are enjoying their strongest moves since 2021.

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Mark Vickery

After-Hours Selling to Challenge Winning Streak Wednesday

Gilead, eBay and Rivian all beat on the bottom line in Q3, but all three are selling the news.

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Mark Vickery

Can Markets Keep the Winning Streak Intact?

Uber missed on headline although business was good, D.R. Horton beat and raised, and the U.S. trade deficit got slimmer.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Stay Green Amid Higher Bond Yields

We imagine some profit-taking took place through the course of the trading session, after the markets' strongest week in a year.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Follow Strong Week in the Green Again

Ahead of today's opening bell, the Dow and Nasdaq are +40 points, and the S&P is +10.

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Mark Vickery

Jobs Cut in Half to 150K; Unemployment +3.9%

Today's headline BLS number is 150K, below the 170-180K expected, and well below the downwardly revised 297K the previous month.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up Big Again; Apple (AAPL) Beats Modestly

Bond yield rates came down notably from their multi-year highs, with the 2-year back below 5% and the 10-year down to 4.663%.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Q3 Productivity Up - So Are the Pre-Markets

Much of what we see up on major indices this morning came after much of this economic data was reported.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Holds, Big Afternoon for Q3 Earnings: QCOM, ABNB & More

While Qualcomm and e.l.f. Beauty beat and raised, other companies reporting after the bell did not fare as well.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Jobs +113K Lower than Expected; Fed at 2pm

This means we're still creating more than the amount of monthly private-sector jobs the economy needs to offset retiring Baby Boomers.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Close Higher, Still Red for October; AMD, CZR Beat, Sell

Major indices were up for a second-straight session, but down for a third-straight month.

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Mark Vickery

UAW Wins; CAT & PFE Beat, Fall in Pre-Market

This morning, a muted version of yesterday's bull market continues: the Dow is +2 points, and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are +6.

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Mark Vickery

Dow Gains 500+ Points; PINS Beats & Raises

While Zacks Rank #1-rated Pinterest is up +11% on Q3 beats, VF Corp and LSCC are selling off in late trading.

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Mark Vickery

Busy Week for Earnings, Fed, Reports; MCD, ON Beat in Q3

Mid-October near-term highs have given way to lower trading levels for the most part in the past couple weeks.

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Mark Vickery

PCE Index In-Line, +0.4%; Core YoY +3.7% - Lowest Since 2021

Spending continued to climb: +0.7% compared with the +0.5% anticipated and the +0.4% posted a month ago.

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Mark Vickery

Q3 GDP +4.9%, Earnings Beats for UPS, Bristol Myers and Honeywell

In the preliminary Q3 GDP print, consumer spending jumped to +4.0% while private domestic investment roared ahead +8.4%.

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Mark Vickery

META Up +4% on +23% Revenue Growth; IBM and NOW Also Beat

The social media leader posted a big beat on earnings -- $4.39 per share versus expectations of $3.62 and the year-ago number of $1.64 per share.

AMZNPositive Net Change FNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change BMYPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change UPSNegative Net Change CMGNegative Net Change NOWNegative Net Change METAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Q3 Earnings Mixed, Big Results Expected After-Hours

The Dow is the sole major index in the green this morning, boosted by Microsoft's strong performance yesterday afternoon.

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Mark Vickery

Big Earnings Beats for Microsoft, Visa, Snap & Others

Microsoft (MSFT) shares gained +4% on better-than-expected results, while Alphabet (GOOGL) sold off on a miss in its cloud business.

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Mark Vickery

Solid Q3 Earnings Assisting Dow Up Triple Digits Early

GM, 3M, ADM and Coke all outperformed expectations on their bottom lines in Q3 this morning.

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Mark Vickery

Big Q3 Earnings Headed Our Way: MSFT, GOOGL & More

The self-policing of high-bond-yield wariness is keeping equities from jumping ahead.

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Mark Vickery

Busy Week for Q3, Economic Reports Starts Slowly

Off mid-October highs, all major indices are down roughly -0.4%: the Dow -160 points, the S&P 500 -17 and the Nasdaq -57.

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Mark Vickery

Market Breaking Up with TINA

a 5% 10-year bond yield is a psychological barrier for those investors who used to look at stocks and say "TINA (There Is No Alternative)."

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Mark Vickery

Markets Struggle with Bond Yields, Fed Chair and Earnings

Powell said inflation is still too high, and that monetary policy -- at 5.25-5.50%, the highest in 16 years -- was still not too tight.

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