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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Small-Caps Stay Higher, Other Indexes Dwindle

President Trump mentioned adding new tariffs on semiconductor imports, which helped move markets aside from the Russell 2000 lower.

AMDNegative Net Change AMGNPositive Net Change SWKSPositive Net Change SMCIPositive Net Change SNAPPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Slightly Up on Mostly Good Q2 Earnings

Q2 earnings reports are overall posting favorable results, including this morning ahead of the open.

AMDNegative Net Change BPPositive Net Change CATPositive Net Change PFEPositive Net Change AMGNPositive Net Change SWKSPositive Net Change MPCNegative Net Change GLDDPositive Net Change ANETPositive Net Change MTCHPositive Net Change TRVGPositive Net Change SNAPPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Selloff? What Selloff? Monday Market Rebound

Palantir is way up after reporting Q2 results Monday afternoon, while HIMS and VRTX are way off highs.

AMDNegative Net Change CATPositive Net Change PFEPositive Net Change AMGNPositive Net Change MCDNegative Net Change VRTXNegative Net Change PLTRPositive Net Change HIMSPositive Net Change RIVNPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Back in the Green to Start New Trading Week

The 10-year bond yield has dissolved back to 4.20%, where it hasn???t been since late April.

TSNPositive Net Change WPositive Net Change PLTRPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Jobs Shrink in the Summer of '25, Pre-Markets Lower

+73K new jobs were filled last month, lower than the +100K expected. The Unemployment Rate ticked up 10 bps.

REGNPositive Net Change CVXNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change CLNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Finish July with a Slight Selloff, Plus AAPL, AMZN Report

Aside from the clear "all in" AI investments being made by the top tech firms, things aren???t getting demonstrably better from this vista.

AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change ROKUPositive Net Change RDDTPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Economy Heating Up on PCE for June

Pre-market and bond yield numbers appear to be in reaction to this morning's economic posts.

AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change MANegative Net Change BMYNegative Net Change ADPPositive Net Change IPPositive Net Change CVSNegative Net Change SIRINegative Net Change ABBVNegative Net Change ROKUPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Sink on Powell Presser Message, Plus Earnings: MSFT, META & More

Once Fed Chair Powell started talking about using the Fed funds rate to thwart tariff-led inflation in the U.S. economy, and they all dropped significantly.

FPositive Net Change QCOMPositive Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change METAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

ADP, GDP & FOMC: Alphabet Soup of Market Data

Both ADP jobs and Q2 GDP outperformed estimates this morning. The FOMC meeting concludes later today.

FPositive Net Change QCOMPositive Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change ADPPositive Net Change VFCPositive Net Change ETSYPositive Net Change KHCPositive Net Change METAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Give Up Gains Amid Major News Week

Q2 earnings reports, while demonstrating a healthy quarter overall, has begun to show some dents in the armor, especially in non-Big Tech spaces.

FPositive Net Change QCOMPositive Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change VNegative Net Change ADPPositive Net Change SBUXNegative Net Change VFCPositive Net Change MDLZPositive Net Change BKNGNegative Net Change METAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up Again on Big News Morning

From a vast array of earnings reports to key economic prints to a massive railway merger likely to pass its government board, it's been a busy morning.

BAPositive Net Change UNHNegative Net Change UNPPositive Net Change NSCPositive Net Change RCLPositive Net Change SPOTPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

S&P 500 & Nasdaq Notch New All-Time Closing Highs

Markets lost a bit of steam mid-session this Monday, but a late surge into the close brought the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes to new record closing highs.

BAPositive Net Change VNegative Net Change UNHNegative Net Change MRKPositive Net Change PGNegative Net Change SBUXNegative Net Change UPSPositive Net Change WHRNegative Net Change CDNSPositive Net Change PYPLPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Big Week for Jobs, Earnings and the Fed

There's only a 2% chance the Fed has enough votes to cut to outstrip Fed Chair Powell's opinion to keep interest rates where they are.

AMZNPositive Net Change FPositive Net Change QCOMPositive Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change VNegative Net Change ADPPositive Net Change XOMNegative Net Change PGNegative Net Change SBUXNegative Net Change WHRNegative Net Change CDNSPositive Net Change METAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Moderate in the Green for Another Up-Week

Over the past week of trading -- which has been positive across the board -- we're seeing a bit of moderation at or near all-time highs.

BAPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change ANPositive Net Change PSXNegative Net Change CNCPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets, Data, Earnings All Mixed

The blue-chip Dow followed its +500-point Wednesday by selling off -316 points Thursday.

AMZNPositive Net Change INTCPositive Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change DECKNegative Net Change ANPositive Net Change PSXNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Morning Headlines Defy Expectations, but Pre-Markets Sell

Only the tech-heavy (AI-trade-heavy) Nasdaq is in the green at this hour.

INTCPositive Net Change UNHNegative Net Change HONNegative Net Change UNPPositive Net Change DECKNegative Net Change AALPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Big Q2 Earnings Afternoon After Strong Day on the Markets

After the Dow brought in more than 500 points and the S&P notched a new record high, a ton of big-name companies reported earnings after the close.

INTCPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change HONNegative Net Change UNPPositive Net Change CMGPositive Net Change DECKNegative Net Change TSLANegative Net Change AALPositive Net Change NOWNegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Shine on Japanese Auto Trade Deal

A new trade agreement was announced that lowers tariffs on Japanese imported autos to +15% from +27.5%, with $550B in loans and investments.

NEEPositive Net Change TNegative Net Change TMNegative Net Change IBMPositive Net Change LUVNegative Net Change LVSNegative Net Change HMCNegative Net Change TSLANegative Net Change NOWNegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change STLAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

New Record Close for S&P 500 - TXN, COF Report After the Bell

The S&P 500 has tiptoed to another record closing high this afternoon, to 6309 for the first time ever.

TXNPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change LUVNegative Net Change COFPositive Net Change CMGPositive Net Change LVSNegative Net Change PHMPositive Net Change DHIPositive Net Change TSLANegative Net Change NOWNegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Earnings Beats for GM, DHI, KO, etc. Lead Pre-Markets Slightly Higher

We are devoid major economic reports ahead of today's open, but have plenty of quarterly earnings results.

LMTNegative Net Change NOCNegative Net Change TXNPositive Net Change KONegative Net Change SHWNegative Net Change COFPositive Net Change ISRGPositive Net Change GMPositive Net Change DHIPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

S&P, Nasdaq Close at New Record Highs, Ignore Weakness in LEI

Bond yields have cooled from last week, as well: +4.38% on the 10-year, +3.86% on the 2-year and back below +5% on the 30-year bond.

KONegative Net Change NXPIPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Big Q2 Earnings Week Awaits: Pre-Market Futures Up Slightly

Q2 earnings season heats up in a serious way, with more than 20% on the S&P 500 scheduled to report before the end of this trading week.

DPZNegative Net Change CLFPositive Net Change TSLANegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Higher on Positive Q2 Earnings, Homebuilding Data

3M and Chas Schwab shares are up this morning on solid Q2 beats, while Housing Starts and Building Permits data improves.

MMMPositive Net Change AXPPositive Net Change SCHWPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Reach New Closing Highs, Netflix Beats on Q2 Earnings

This marks Netflix's sixth-straight quarterly earnings beat, even though the company no longer posts subscriber numbers.

INTCPositive Net Change SLBNegative Net Change NFLXNegative Net Change MMMPositive Net Change AXPPositive Net Change IBKRPositive Net Change TSLANegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Good News for GE, Jobless Claims, Retail Sales & More

At 221K, Initial Jobless Claims are down for the fifth week in a row from near-term highs.

GEPositive Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change