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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

ADP, GDP & FOMC: Alphabet Soup of Market Data

Both ADP jobs and Q2 GDP outperformed estimates this morning. The FOMC meeting concludes later today.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Give Up Gains Amid Major News Week

Q2 earnings reports, while demonstrating a healthy quarter overall, has begun to show some dents in the armor, especially in non-Big Tech spaces.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up Again on Big News Morning

From a vast array of earnings reports to key economic prints to a massive railway merger likely to pass its government board, it's been a busy morning.

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Mark Vickery

S&P 500 & Nasdaq Notch New All-Time Closing Highs

Markets lost a bit of steam mid-session this Monday, but a late surge into the close brought the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes to new record closing highs.

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Mark Vickery

Big Week for Jobs, Earnings and the Fed

There's only a 2% chance the Fed has enough votes to cut to outstrip Fed Chair Powell's opinion to keep interest rates where they are.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Moderate in the Green for Another Up-Week

Over the past week of trading -- which has been positive across the board -- we're seeing a bit of moderation at or near all-time highs.

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Mark Vickery

Markets, Data, Earnings All Mixed

The blue-chip Dow followed its +500-point Wednesday by selling off -316 points Thursday.

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Mark Vickery

Morning Headlines Defy Expectations, but Pre-Markets Sell

Only the tech-heavy (AI-trade-heavy) Nasdaq is in the green at this hour.

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Mark Vickery

Big Q2 Earnings Afternoon After Strong Day on the Markets

After the Dow brought in more than 500 points and the S&P notched a new record high, a ton of big-name companies reported earnings after the close.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Shine on Japanese Auto Trade Deal

A new trade agreement was announced that lowers tariffs on Japanese imported autos to +15% from +27.5%, with $550B in loans and investments.

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Mark Vickery

New Record Close for S&P 500 - TXN, COF Report After the Bell

The S&P 500 has tiptoed to another record closing high this afternoon, to 6309 for the first time ever.

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Mark Vickery

Earnings Beats for GM, DHI, KO, etc. Lead Pre-Markets Slightly Higher

We are devoid major economic reports ahead of today's open, but have plenty of quarterly earnings results.

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Mark Vickery

S&P, Nasdaq Close at New Record Highs, Ignore Weakness in LEI

Bond yields have cooled from last week, as well: +4.38% on the 10-year, +3.86% on the 2-year and back below +5% on the 30-year bond.

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Mark Vickery

Big Q2 Earnings Week Awaits: Pre-Market Futures Up Slightly

Q2 earnings season heats up in a serious way, with more than 20% on the S&P 500 scheduled to report before the end of this trading week.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Higher on Positive Q2 Earnings, Homebuilding Data

3M and Chas Schwab shares are up this morning on solid Q2 beats, while Housing Starts and Building Permits data improves.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Reach New Closing Highs, Netflix Beats on Q2 Earnings

This marks Netflix's sixth-straight quarterly earnings beat, even though the company no longer posts subscriber numbers.

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Mark Vickery

Good News for GE, Jobless Claims, Retail Sales & More

At 221K, Initial Jobless Claims are down for the fifth week in a row from near-term highs.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Fight Off Powell Rumor, Close in the Green

A report that President Trump intended on firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell sent all major indexes into the loss column temporarily.

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Mark Vickery

Strong Q2 Earnings, Cooling PPI Lead Pre-Markets Higher

Headline PPI for June, month over month, reached 0.0% -- lower than the +0.2% expected and 30 bps below May.

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Mark Vickery

Nasdaq Clings to Gains, New All-Time High Close

Off last Thursday's highs, the Nasdaq has once again led the way among major market indexes.

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Mark Vickery

Economy Shows Signs of Warming: CPI, Q2 Bank Earnings

Following a fairly dormant period, we're finally getting down to some real nitty-grit.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Close in the Green; Nasdaq at Fresh Highs

We get started with a new CPI report and Q2 earnings results on Tuesday ahead of the open.

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Mark Vickery

Big Week of Inflation Data, Q2 Earnings Reports

Not only do we look forward to the biggest of the Wall Street banks reporting Q2 earnings, but a whole host of economic prints, including a fresh Inflation Rate for the month of June, are expected.

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Mark Vickery

New Tariff Talk Sends Pre-Markets Off Record Highs

President Trump announced a new +35% tariff on all Canadian goods imported to the U.S. this morning. Pre-markets are now in the red.

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Mark Vickery

Small-Cap Russell 2000 Leads Another Up-Day in the Market

The small-cap index has outgained the field of the past month or so.

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