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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Amazon, Apple Lead Big Earnings Afternoon

Both "Mag 7" stocks are trading lower on quarterly earnings, while Reddit and Twilio are jumping higher following theirs.

AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change TWLOPositive Net Change ABNBPositive Net Change RDDTNegative Net Change XYZPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Higher; Q1 Earnings from LLY, MCD & More

Last week, 241K Americans filed for unemployment on Initial Jobless Claims, with Continuing Claims touching 1.9 million.

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Mark Vickery

Steady PCE, Higher Pending Home Sales, Help Bolster Hump Day Trading

While PCE month over month was flat on both headline and core, Pending Home Sales increased and late earnings reports posted beats.

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Mark Vickery

First Negative GDP in 3+ Years: -0.3%; Pre-Markets Down

With ADP coming in half of what was expected and Q1 GDP -0.3%, we can understand the downward pressure in the pre-market.

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Mark Vickery

JOLTS, Confidence, Home Prices and Q1 Earnings Make an Eventful Day

Major indexes gains from 0.5-0.75% in today's trading, on a plethora of data across many realms of the market.

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Mark Vickery

Trade Balance in Goods Hits All-Time Record, Plus Q1 Earnings

Pre-market futures are mixed-to-flat once again, this time with the blue-chip Dow leading into positive territory.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Back to Flattish; Q1 After the Close: FFIV, CDNS & More

Today saw a mid-day dip across major indexes, but rebounded into the green by the end of the session -- all but the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

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Mark Vickery

Big Week Ahead for the Stock Market

Jobs Week, PCE and Q1 earnings reports should dominate market headlines all week.

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Mark Vickery

Conflicting Claims on U.S./China Trade Sends Pre-Markets in the Red

The closer we get to July 10th without a new trade deal, the more precarious these tariff charges become.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up Today and for the Week; Q1 from GOOGL, INTC, SKX

Alphabet (GOOGL) and Intel (INTC) beat in Q1, but Skechers (SKX) was mixed and fell in after-hours trading.

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Mark Vickery

A Busy Morning: Jobless Claims, Durable Goods & Q1 Earnings

While Jobless Claims and Durable Goods outperformed, we saw mixed results in Q1 earnings this morning.

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Mark Vickery

Markets in Green 2nd Straight Day; Q1 Reports for CMG, IBM & More

While Chipotle and Whirlpool missed estimates after the close, IBM, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments and Newmont Resources all posted beats.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Back Up on Softening Stance from the White House

Much of the markets' attitude seems tethered to public statements made by President Trump.

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Mark Vickery

Tesla Q1 Misses on Top & Bottom Lines, Kicks Can on Guidance

Tesla (TSLA) posted its sixth earnings miss in the past seven quarters, coming up -38.6% short.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up on Q1 Earnings; Tesla Reports After the Close

We have a nice handful of earnings results out this morning, but the big tuna in today's Q1 periscope is Tesla (TSLA).

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Mark Vickery

Market Indexes Tank Again, but Gold Continues to Shine

The COMEX closed today's session climbed +3.3% today to a current spot price of $3426 per ounce -- a new record high.

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Mark Vickery

Expect the Unexpected for a New Trading Week

Every week brings us big headlines, and there is nothing to suggest this will calm in the near term.

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Mark Vickery

Short Week Finishes with Netflix Q1 Beat

We'd obviously welcome any positive news on the trade tariff front over the weekend, which starts tomorrow for the markets in observance of Good Friday.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Market Drama Shifts: Dow Lower on UNH Miss

Since April 2nd, the Dow is -7.65%, the S&P 500 -6.71%, the Nasdaq -6.19% and the small-cap Russell 2000 -8.62%.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Drop Again on Fed Chair Powell's Assessment

The S&P 500 was down -1% as Powell took the stage at the Economic Club of Chicago today, and -2% when he left.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Q1 Earnings Show Signs of "Pull Forward"

A trade tariff casualty - NVIDIA - is sending the Nasdaq lower than the other major indexes ahead of the open.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flatten by the Close; Q1 Reports from UAL, IBKR, JBHT

A pause in the chaotic ping-pong game of global tariffs that began two weeks ago tomorrow has calmed the market somewhat.

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Mark Vickery

Import Prices, Empire State Come In Mild; Q1 Earnings Beats Abound

Pre-markets are down somewhat, following yesterday's +3/4-percent gain on the Dow and the S&P 500, +2/3-percent gain for the Nasdaq.

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Mark Vickery

U.S./China Trade at +125% Standoff, PPI Slides, Big Banks Report Q1

Trade between the U.S. and China -- worth $582 billion in 2024 -- has apparently ground to a halt.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Falls, Pre-Markets Give Back Some Gains

Futures are down, but better after morning economic data was released an hour ahead of the opening bell.

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