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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Tech Experiences Slight Selloff, Dow Ekes +10 Points

The Dow closed the session up +10 points, +0.02%, while the Nasdaq shed -314 points on the day, -1.46%.

TGTNegative Net Change TJXNegative Net Change LOWNegative Net Change HDNegative Net Change ELNegative Net Change TOLNegative Net Change PLTRPositive Net Change

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Housing Data Mixed for Starts, Permits and Home Depot Earnings

Pre-market futures were already showing some improvement from overnight lows, but have pointed north on the new data.

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Flat Stock Markets to Start a New Trading Week

Slightly weaker than expected homebuilding data combined with slightly better-than-expected earnings results.

PANWPositive Net Change FNPositive Net Change

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Retailers Start to Report Earnings This Week

It's the final leg of earnings season, in a general sense, to hear from the retailers who tend to stagger their earnings quarters.

UNHNegative Net Change TGTNegative Net Change TJXNegative Net Change WMTNegative Net Change BRK.BNegative Net Change COSTNegative Net Change PANWPositive Net Change FNPositive Net Change

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Hot & Cold Data on Retail Sales, Imports/Exports, Manufacturing

Retail Sales have cooled following hotter revisions, while Imports turned up the heat in July.

QQQPositive Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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Market Indexes Fight Back to Flat for the Day

Markets were mostly flat for the day, aside from the small-cap Russell 2000, which gave back the majority of its +2% gains yesterday.

TGTNegative Net Change TJXNegative Net Change WMTNegative Net Change LOWNegative Net Change HDNegative Net Change ELNegative Net Change AMATPositive Net Change PANWPositive Net Change

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Economic Data at 3-Year Highs: PPI, Jobless Claims

PPI prints soared +90 bps month over month, sending pre-markets from flat into the red.

DEPositive Net Change NTESNegative Net Change VIPSNegative Net Change WBNegative Net Change JDNegative Net Change

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Rate-Cut Bonanza Keeps Markets at Record Highs

Market participants continue to ride the narrative that interest rate cuts will be coming down.

CSCOPositive Net Change PHMNegative Net Change LENNegative Net Change RKTNegative Net Change

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Pre-Markets Up on Rate-Cut Excitement

Right now we're looking at 2-3 rate cuts for the remainder of 2025; this roughly would equate a 3.50-3.75% Fed funds rate by the end of the year.

CSCOPositive Net Change EATNegative Net Change

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Markets Stride to New Highs on CPI Data, Pending Rate Cuts

We appear to be pricing-in the surety of a Fed rate cut in September, still more than a month away.

CSCOPositive Net Change EATNegative Net Change CAVANegative Net Change CRWVNegative Net Change

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CPI in July Puts Pre-Markets in a Good Mood

Pre-market futures are rising, a direct result of seeing better-than-expected CPI numbers.

SFDNegative Net Change TMEPositive Net Change ONONNo Net Change

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Pre-Markets in Green, Inflation Data, Retail Sales, Q2 Earnings This Week

U.S. stock futures edged higher this morning after an impressive last week.

CENegative Net Change BPositive Net Change FNVNegative Net Change LEGNNegative Net Change MNDYNegative Net Change ACHRNegative Net Change OKLONegative Net Change

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Pre-markets Higher, Early Q2 Reports Modest

We're beyond most of the top-tier earnings reports this earnings season, but we still have a number of stocks to consider this morning.

WENNegative Net Change UAANegative Net Change CARTPositive Net Change SHCONegative Net Change

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Markets Lose Momentum, Late Q2 Reports Move Stocks

Indexes fell from their opening bell levels in the green across the board, with a slight surge late.

CATPositive Net Change LLYPositive Net Change EXPENegative Net Change TWLOPositive Net Change SGPositive Net Change PINSNegative Net Change

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Jobless Claims, Q2 Productivity, Q2 Earnings All Higher

Pre-market futures were at peak highs just ahead of new economic prints this morning, but we remain in healthy, positive territory.

LLYPositive Net Change GILDNegative Net Change WYNNNegative Net Change TTWONegative Net Change RLNegative Net Change WBDPositive Net Change TRIPPositive Net Change TWLOPositive Net Change

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Market Indexes Mostly Moderately Higher, Big Earnings Afternoon

We've been treading water pretty much above the Friday lows this week, but have yet to reach the highs of last Thursday.

APPPositive Net Change ELFNegative Net Change DASHPositive Net Change ABNBPositive Net Change DUOLNegative Net Change

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Big Morning for Earnings: DIS, MCD, SHOP, UBER, etc.

We're being spared major economic reports this Hump Day, so the market can better focus on the bevy of Q2 earnings reports coming down the pike.

MCDNegative Net Change HMCPositive Net Change DISNegative Net Change PLNTNegative Net Change SHOPNegative Net Change UBERNegative Net Change

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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 SWKSNegative Net Change SMCIPositive Net Change SNAPNegative Net Change

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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 PFENegative Net Change AMGNPositive Net Change SWKSNegative Net Change MPCPositive Net Change GLDDNegative Net Change ANETPositive Net Change MTCHNegative Net Change TRVGNegative Net Change SNAPNegative Net Change

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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 PFENegative Net Change AMGNPositive Net Change MCDNegative Net Change VRTXPositive Net Change PLTRPositive Net Change HIMSPositive Net Change RIVNNegative Net Change

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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.

TSNNegative Net Change WNegative Net Change PLTRPositive Net Change

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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.

REGNNegative Net Change CVXPositive Net Change XOMPositive Net Change CLNegative Net Change

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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.

AMZNNegative Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change ROKUNegative Net Change RDDTPositive Net Change

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Economy Heating Up on PCE for June

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

AMZNNegative Net Change AAPLNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change MANegative Net Change BMYNegative Net Change ADPNegative Net Change IPNegative Net Change CVSNegative Net Change SIRINegative Net Change ABBVPositive Net Change ROKUNegative Net Change

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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.

FNegative Net Change QCOMNegative Net Change MSFTPositive Net Change METANegative Net Change