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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

ADP Jobs +324K Still Higher than Expected; CVS, KHC, HUM Report

ADP Chief Economist Nela Richardson said, "The economy is doing better than expected... we continue to see a slowdown in pay growth without broad-based job loss."

ADPNegative Net Change HUMPositive Net Change CVSPositive Net Change KHCPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Lackluster Trading Pre-Jobs; AMD, SBUX, PINS, EA Report

The S&P 500 seemed to be showing some resistance of higher valuation levels after good economic news last week but still-uncertain jobs figures which come out starting Wednesday morning.

AMDNegative Net Change ADPNegative Net Change SBUXPositive Net Change EAPositive Net Change PINSPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Uber, Pfizer, JetBlue Beat Q2 Earnings, Miss Sales

After today's close, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will be the latest important tech stock reporting, and will join Starbucks (SBUX).

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up, Yum China Beats, Avis Mixed

The small-cap Russell 2000 led the way again today, +0.82%, followed by +0.32% from the Nasdaq, +0.16% on the Dow and +0.06% for the S&P.

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Mark Vickery

SOFI, ON Beat in Q2, Ahead of Jobs Week

Pre-market levels are up modestly at this hour, staying in the green much the way we ended last week after taking a breather with last Thursday's selloff.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Rebound After Selloff; PCE & Q2 Numbers Everywhere

Year over year PCE headline came down to +3.0%, +4.1% on core. Still above the Fed's optimum inflation rate, but well off cycle highs.

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Mark Vickery

Strong Data: Claims, Goods, GDP and Q2 Earnings

The Dow is looking to notch its 14th straight trading day higher -- something that hasn't happened since 1897.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Hikes, Markets Mixed; META, EBAY Beat in Q2, CMG Misses

The next FOMC meeting doesn't begin until the latter half of September.

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Mark Vickery

Q2 Earnings, Home Prices and the Fed: Another Full Day

With a 25 bps rate hike baked into the cake, the question now is whether Fed Chair Powell's press conference will demonstrate a more dovish posture.

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Mark Vickery

Cavalcade of Earnings: MSFT, GOOGL, SNAP & More

While Alphabet is trading +6% on its earnings news, Snap is down big: -18% as of this hour.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Cool Ahead of Fed; Q2 Results from GE, MMM & More

GE has at last delivered the type of quarter investors have been expecting since the American stalwart hired Larry Culp as CEO five years ago.

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Mark Vickery

Dow Up 10 Straight Sessions; NXPI Beats, WHR Mixed

NXP Semi topped estimates on both top and bottom lines, while Whirlpool beat easily on earnings but missed on revenues.

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Mark Vickery

Nasdaq 100 Rebalance Not Hurting Futures

Perhaps part of the sideways trading late last week boiled some of this Nasdaq 100 situttion down ahead of time.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up After Nasdaq, S&P Selloff; AXP, SLB, CMA Report

We don't have any major economic reports out this morning, but next week brings us plenty -- as well as the latest Fed meeting.

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Mark Vickery

Dow Outperforms on Valuation Pullback; CSX, COF Report

The Dow gained +163 points on the session, +0.47% - for the ninth-straight trading day higher.

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Mark Vickery

Q2 Beats for J&J, American; Jobless Claims, Philly Fed Lower

Both J&J and American Airlines put up solid beats on top and bottom lines, while the labor market remains buoyant.

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Mark Vickery

Full Slate of Q2 Earnings: TSLA, NFLX, IBM, UAL & More

While Tesla and United beat on both top and bottom lines, Netflix and IBM were mixed.

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Mark Vickery

Eventful Q2 Earnings Season; Housing Starts Down

Soon, it's reasonable to expect market participants will question whether they are too far out ahead of future market gains, but so far the party continues.

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Mark Vickery

S&P 500, Nasdaq: Highest Levels in 15 Months

Tomorrow is the most consequential Q2 earnings day yet: not only Tesla (TSLA) and Netflix (NFLX) after the close, but also Goldman Sachs (GS) and United (UAL) before the bell.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales Lower at +0.2%; BAC, MS, LMT All Beat in Q2

Retail Sales at +0.2% were well off the expected +0.5% for the month, which happens to also be the upward revision for May.

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Mark Vickery

F-150 Lightning Price Cut: A Boon for Tesla?

Ford (F) announced it is lowering the price of its F-150 Lightning EV pickup truck, by $6K-$10K, depending on the model.

LMTPositive Net Change BACNegative Net Change MSNegative Net Change FNegative Net Change HASPositive Net Change GMPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change RIVNPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Q2 Earnings Week Brings Us Tesla, Netflix & More

Aside from a handful of Wall Street banks and other industry leaders, Q2 numbers are out this week for the first of the FAANGs and Tesla.

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Mark Vickery

JPMorgan Posts +20% Beat; C, WFC, UNH Also Outperform

Earnings of $4.37 per share easily outpaced the $3.62 in the Zacks consensus and the $2.76 per share reported a year ago.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Keep Strong Ahead of Big Bank Q2 Earnings

If you've just now woken up to the idea that the Fed will land this plane softly, you may be a little late to the party.

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Mark Vickery

PPI Lowest in 3 Years, Jobless Claims Lower

Inflation metrics continue to shrink steadily and measurably -- keeping the narrative alive that we may yet be experiencing a "soft landing."

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