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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Tepidly Down a Second Day

Q3 earnings season is practically over, and big economic prints don't arrive until PCE and Weekly Jobless Claims Thursday morning.

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Mark Vickery

Successful Cyber Monday; Markets Take Profits

This Cyber Monday saw 77 million U.S. consumers participate in temporary sales on goods, most of which are for the benefit of early holiday shopping.

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Mark Vickery

Cyber Monday and an Outlook to PCE This Week

"Cyber Monday" and other retail lines are blurred these days, with e-commerce playing an ever more significant part in even big-box retailers' revenues throughout the shopping cycle.

AMZNPositive Net Change SHOPPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Black Friday Sees Muted Markets, NFL Football

You can expect a vast array of Black Friday ads prominently placed throughout the course of today's game.

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Mark Vickery

Market Rally Takes Us into Thanksgiving

Off late-October lows, all four major indices are performing spectacularly: the Dow +8.67%, the S&P +10.41%, the Nasdaq +12.83% and the Russell +9.53%.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Durable Goods, Deere Q4 Earnings All Drop

New jobless claims for last week dropped to 209K -- 20K fewer than analysts were looking for.

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Mark Vickery

NVIDIA Brings the Goods on Q3 Earnings; URBN Beats, JWN Mixed

Good news for NVIDIA owners: the company was able to outdo even its extraordinary expectations in the quarter.

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Mark Vickery

Big Morning for Q3 Earnings in Retail: DKS, ANF, BBY & More

As we are nearly through the entire S&P 500 for another earnings season, we look for today to be largely affected by earnings results, mostly among specialty retailers.

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Mark Vickery

AI Events Dictate Monday's Bull Market; Zoom (ZM) Beats

While Microsoft made a play for OpenAI's Sam Altman, NVIDIA gained +2.2% ahead of earnings results tomorrow afternoon.

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Mark Vickery

Holiday-Shortened Week Starting Mixed

We're flattish this morning, with indices seesawing on either side of the zero balance.

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Mark Vickery

Housing Data Stronger for October; Pre-Markets Mixed

Housing Starts for October grew +1.9% to 1.372 million -- the highest print in three months.

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Mark Vickery

Specialty Retailers Report Q3 Earnings Afterhours: Gap, Ross, B&BW

All three retailers beat on both lines, but they didn't all raise guidance.

GPSPositive Net Change ROSTNegative Net Change BBWIPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Long-Term Jobless Claims Highest in 2 Years; Walmart Meets, Macy's Beats

Continuing Claims rose for the eighth-straight week, to 1.865 million from a slight downward revision.

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Mark Vickery

Market Rally Flattens Out; Cisco & Palo Alto Beat, Sell Off

Yesterday was a hard act to follow; plenty of exuberance over peak interest rate levels has given away to something else today.

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Mark Vickery

PPI Drops Nearly 100bps, Target Beats & Raises

Core year over year PPI reached +2.4%, 30 bps below expectations. You'd have to go back to January of 2021 for a lower read.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Bask in Cool CPI, Speculate on Rate Cuts

In order for the Fed to change its mind on "higher for longer," it would likely be due to something in the economy we do not currently envisage.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Inflation Rate +3.2%: Even Better than Expected

This morning's CPI report blew pre-market numbers into another stratosphere within seconds: +300 points on the Dow, +54 on the S&P and +250 on the Nasdaq.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Stay Flat Ahead of CPI Tuesday Morning

The good news for Boeing came this morning, when it was announced the aerospace giant is selling 125 777X wide-body jets to Emirates Airlines.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Lower After Strong Trading Week

At this hour this morning, the Dow is giving back -65 points, the S&P -156 and the Nasdaq -60 points.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Higher After Winning Streaks Break

If Fed Chair Powell's raison d'etre was to dampen market activity, he was only partially successful.

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Mark Vickery

S&P, Nasdaq Winning Streaks Stopped; WYNN Beats, CPRI Misses

Only the Dow remains positive over the past month of trading; only the Russell is negative year to date.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Strong on Higher Bond Rates, Mixed Earnings

While this positive sentiment is welcome, we note bond yield rates going higher this morning.

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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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