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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Bond Market Twists Tariff Arm to 90-Day Pause

Market indexes shot up to levels not seen since the introduction of the Covid vaccine, if not well before that.

QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

China Cranks Up Tariff "Pain" to +84%

Pre-markets are down again, as are oil prices. Meanwhile, bond yields are going up.

DALPositive Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Reverse Direction as Tariff Ante Upped on China

An additional +50% tariffs on Chinese imports are now getting levied as of midnight tonight.

AAPLPositive Net Change NKENo Net Change UNHPositive Net Change DALPositive Net Change HUMNegative Net Change FDXPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Rocket Up on Overseas Optimism

The Japanese Nikkei index rose +6% off 18-month lows overnight, on hopes that bilateral trade talks between the U.S. and Japan are underway.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mellow as Talks About Trade Talks Commence

Market participants began to see some dialogue on the tariff beat, with certain countries willing to state publicly they are ready to negotiate trade levels with the U.S.

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Mark Vickery

Tariff Saga Starts 2nd Week, Pre-Markets Down Big Again

The American indexes are now reverberating off the market reactions around the world.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Another -2% on Good Jobs Report

China has fire a retaliatory shot in the tariff war begun on the White House lawn Wednesday.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Tank on Tariff Policy; Services PMI and Guess? Beat

Tariffs being slapped onto the U.S.'s trading partners all on the same day has only increased the levels of uncertainty for market participants.

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Mark Vickery

Tariff Policies Send Pre-Market Futures Down -4%

Economists agree this is unlike any tariff policy in U.S. history.

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Mark Vickery

Trump's Tariff Policies Sink Late Trading: QQQ -3%

There is a new effective tariff rate on dozens of countries: China +34%, Taiwan +32%, South Korea +25% and Japan +24%, to name but a few.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Again on "Liberation Day"

Economic conditions are different today than they were back when President Trump first levied tariffs against China in 2018.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Turn Positive Late, a Day Ahead of Tariffs

Will it be blanket tariffs or custom carve-out rates for certain goods from certain countries, or perhaps multi-tiered tariff rates? No one knows.

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Mark Vickery

Countdown to "Liberation Day;" Pre-Markets in the Red

It's 50/50 whether immediate or near-term capitulation from our trading partners forms... or is it?

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed to Start a New Week; PVH +11% on Q4 Earnings

Big Tech closed its worst quarter in 3 years, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipping another -23 points on the day, -0.14%.

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Mark Vickery

Q1 Ends Today, Jobs Week & Tariffs - Oh My!

Wednesday is private-sector payrolls from ADP (ADP), Thursday has Weekly Jobless Claims and Friday is the Employment Situation report from the U.S. government.

WFCPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change ADPPositive Net Change DALPositive Net Change GESPositive Net Change PVHNegative Net Change RHPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

PCE Levels Steady-to-Warmer; Pre-Markets Down

The monthly PCE report shows headline steadiness with some undercurrents of inflation getting a bit warmer.

ADPPositive Net Change QQQPositive Net Change SPYPositive Net Change DIAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Markets Lower, Pending Home Sales Up, LULU Falls on Guidance

Stock markets remain in a range of -2% to -4% from a month ago, and next week when April 2nd tariffs hit, we'll start seeing some of the dust settle.

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Mark Vickery

Moderating Economic Prints, Mixed Pre-Markets

Jobless Claims stay steady, Trade Balance in Goods comes down slightly but are still historically deep.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Stay Flat a Week Ahead of Tariffs

While most metrics depict a healthy economy overall, it's impossible to truly prepare for what is to come.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flat-to-Higher; Bears Look Exhausted

Markets were higher today for three of the four major indexes, marking three-straight up-days for both the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Swing Back into Green

We saw tariff fears tamped down significantly yesterday when President Trump suggested he would narrow their scope.

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Mark Vickery

Big Bounce in Markets on Tamed-Down Tariff Proposals

Market indexes, down at or near correction territory, sprang back between 1.4% (Dow) and +2.6% (Russell 2000).

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up on "Narrower" April 2nd Tariffs

A lighter touch on tariff policy this morning is helping pre-market futures fill in some holes.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Sinking on Dimming Outlook

We got all the data we could want this week, but are still in the dark as much as were Monday morning.

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Mark Vickery

Welcome to Earnings Island: NKE, FDX, MU

While Nike and Micron easily beat Estimates, FedEx was mixed for the quarter.

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