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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

PCE Mostly In-Line, Pre-Markets Favorable

Core PCE year over year reached sub-4% for the first time in two years, and just as expected: +3.9%.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight into the Green; NIKE Mixed After-Hours

Gross Margins for NIKE (NKE) dipped a tad to 44.2% from 44.3% in the year-ago quarter -- still decent considering the inflation headwinds.

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Mark Vickery

New Jobless Claims 204K, Q2 GDP +2.1%, Pre-Markets Still Down

Tomorrow will be the final trading day of September -- a month we'll all be happy to exit.

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Mark Vickery

Micron (MU) Mixed After the Bell, Shares -3%

Micron's CEO rightly claimed it has been a "challenging environment for memory and storage."

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Mark Vickery

Durable Goods Show Healthy Economy, but What About the Fed?

Business owners show in Durable Goods Orders that the future is bright enough to build-out company infrastructure, inventory, etc.

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Mark Vickery

Case-Shiller Up, Home Sales & Consumer Confidence Down

While home prices were up but new sales down, consumer confidence took a hit and so did Costco (COST) after beating on both top and bottom lines.

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Mark Vickery

On Work Stoppages and Stock Market Futures

The last time we saw one a federal government shutdown was over Christmas and New Year's in 2018-19.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Break Losing Streak; Bond Yields Rise, Too

Also, a case of mistaken identity may have helped Williams-Sonoma close over +11% today.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down on Real & Projected Headwinds

Early trading is at low levels of the pre-market so far, less than half an hour before the first opening bell of the week.

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John Blank

The End of Policy Rate Hikes? Global Week Ahead

The Fed kept interest rates steady last week, but projected monetary policy will remain significantly tighter through 2024 than previously expected.

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Mark Vickery

September Brings the Fall Once Again

Until this week, we looked as if we might buck the September doldrums. But it was not to be.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Continue Selloff from Wednesday

New data are throwing a wet blanket on equities trading, even as we see a fairly healthy Q3 earnings season on the horizon in a couple weeks.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Philly Fed, U.S. Deficit All Shrink

Through the first three weeks of September, the month is living up to its reputation as a bull-market killer.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Tumble on Fed Rate Hold, New Dot-Plot

Investors were looking for significant rate cuts next year, and Powell is only suggesting we'll get down to where we were in May of this year by the end of 2024.

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Mark Vickery

Early Traders Seek Value Ahead of Fed Decision

Taking Fed Chair Powell's temperature on his outlook through the rest of the year will take center stage this afternoon, likely between 2:15-2:30pm ET.

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Mark Vickery

Market Indices Close Gently in the Red

What was behind the selloff? The better question is: what's ahead of it?

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Mark Vickery

Housing Starts Depict Slowdown as Fed Meeting Begins

New Starts brought the lowest print since June 2020, and helps illustrate how 7%+ mortgage rates have thrown a wet blanket over the housing market as a whole.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flat, with Homebuilders Turning Negative

Over the past five trading days, only the Dow clings to gains of -0.09% -- the other indices are slightly in the red.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Funds, FedEx Q1 Mid-Week; Strikes Continue

After 40+ years of rolling back union membership in the U.S. economy, we're seeing a clear push-back against the ownership class.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mildly Negative on UAW Strike, Imports, Etc.

Pre-market futures have slipped a bit on this news of a UAW strike and hotter Import and Export Prices.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Gets a Shot in the ARM; ADBE, LEN Beat in Q3

Today, after listing at $51 per share, Arm Holdings gained +24.7% and closed at $63.59 per share. Not bad for a day's work.

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Mark Vickery

PPI, Retail Sales, Jobless Claims All Higher

PPI came in hotter on headline for the month of August than analysts had been expecting: +0.7% is 30 basis points (bps) higher than the +0.4% consensus.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flatten Post-CPI Report; PPI, Jobless Claims Thursday

Even though CPI numbers were a little warmer than we'd have preferred, on year over year core this was the lowest read in almost two years.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Hotter on Fuel Costs, In-Line at +4.3% Core YoY

Coming down 230 basis points in a year on core CPI -- a sticky inflation metric -- is nothing to sneeze at.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Cool on Apple 15 News; CPI Tomorrow

As expected, Apple (AAPL) unveiled the new iPhone 15 and Watch 9 series today.

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