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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-Market Dow Sinks on UNH Report; Econ Reports After the Open

The DOJ is bringing a civil case against UnitedHealthcare (UNH) -- the largest healthcare company in the world.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Take a Breather; Late Q4 Earnings Stronger

A tariff warning from Walmart (WMT) this morning on its Q4 earnings report got the session off to a weak start.

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Mark Vickery

Steady Jobless Claims, Good Philly Fed, Healthy Q4 Earnings

Pre-markets are once again starting off lower, but the S&P 500 is working on a two-day record-closing-high.

WMTPositive Net Change TRIPPositive Net Change BABAPositive Net Change WNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Fed Minutes, Q4 Earnings Keep Market Indexes Alight

The S&P 500 set its second-straight record closing high, at 6144, but ultimately today's gains were modest.

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Mark Vickery

Housing Puts Up Mixed Numbers; Earnings for ETSY, GRMN & More

New Housing Starts last month were notably lower than the previous month.

GRMNPositive Net Change JLLNegative Net Change ETSYPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Housing Data Softens; Markets Eke Out Gains

February results from the latest Homebuilder Confidence Index were a bit of a disappointment earlier today.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Market for New Trading Week in the Green

Compared with the past two weeks, we're a little quieter here in this holiday-shortened trading week.

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Mark Vickery

Will Stock Market "Animal Spirits" Continue Thru Valentine's Day?

We see plenty of economic data hitting the tape at this hour, but none of it seems to be moving index levels.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Post Decent Gains on No-Tariff Thursday; Plus More Earnings

We were supposed to see the start of major tariffs being levied on our global trading partners, but they have yet to be set.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up on PPI Results, More Earnings Reports

Year over year, headline PPI reached +3.5%. This is 20 bps ahead of expectations, though equal to the previous month???s revised number.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Back from Deep Selloff; APP Kills in Q4

Market indexes fought back courageously after sinking an hour before the opening bell on hotter-than-expected CPI numbers.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Grows Uncomfortably Warm, Pre-Markets Sell-Off

Pre-market futures are sinking like a stone on this morning's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed on Powell Testimony, Q4 Earnings

The Fed Chair told the Senate that the U.S. economy was "strong overall," and again asserted that the Fed does not need "to be in a hurry to adjust [its] stance."

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Take Some Froth Off the Top; Powell to Speak, Q4 Results Continue

For now, we're seeing major indexes pointed lower to start the new trading day.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Steady, Positive; Q4 Earnings Keep Rolling

Indexes mostly shrugged off +25% steel tariffs announced by President Trump; VRTX, LSCC report for Q4.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Green After Friday's Selloff

Over the past month, the blue-chip Dow leads all major indexes, +5.8%, followed by the Russell, +4.4%.

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Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs Numbers +143K, Unemployment Rate +4.0%

The quick-take on this reaction is that the market recognizes that a healthy labor market subtracts from the possibility a new interest rate cut.

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Mark Vickery

Flat Day Ahead of Friday Jobs Report; Q4 Results for AMZN, SKX, EXPE

+170K jobs are expected to have been filled last month, below the December tally of +256K.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Higher on Easy Jobless Claims, Q4 Earnings

Last week, +219K Initial Jobless Claims were made -- higher than the slightly upwardly revised +208K.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Jump Ahead of the Close; QCOM, F, ARM Beat Estimates After

Qualcomm (QCOM) notched another big beat on its Q1 bottom line, with earnings of $3.41 per share flying past the $2.93 for the Zacks consensus.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Jobs Report Strong in January; Q4 Earnings Roll Along

ADP unveiled +183K new private-sector jobs last month -- well ahead of the +150K expected.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Reverse Tariff Panic; Many Q4 Beats After Hours

Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) posted beats on both top and bottom lines after today's close.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Flat Ahead of JOLTS; Q4 Earnings for PFE, PYPL, PEP & More

Pfizer (PFE) put up its most impressive quarterly numbers in recent memory today.

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Mark Vickery

Markets React to Softening Trade Tariff Policy

An almost immediate retraction of a 25% tariff on imported goods from Mexico prodded this relief trade.

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Mark Vickery

Trade War Reality Sets into Pre-Markets

The Dow has so far shed -600 points, the S&P 500 is -100 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq is -400 points at this hour.

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