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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Lower; Economic News Decent

Jobless Claims, Philly Fed, Darden's outlook are green shoots on a gloomy morning.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Rise After Fed Report; Earnings Due Thursday

The Fed is not forecasting a higher possibility of a recession based on proposed tariffs.

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Mark Vickery

A Brief History of Fed Funds Moves in the 21st Century

Today's FOMC statement will include a new dot-plot to map out where the Fed sees future moves, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell will give his customary press conference.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Drop Ahead of Fed Meeting; Huang Speech Can't Save NVIDIA

The Nasdaq dropped -304 points, -1.71% on the session, with NVIDIA (NVDA) down -3.4%.

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Mark Vickery

Housing Starts, Imports/Exports Better than Expected

Aside from better-than-expected economic data, Alphabet just made its largest acquisition to date.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Close in the Green After Rollercoaster Ride

All major indexes finished off intra-day highs, but have now swung into the green over the past five trading days.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Turn Green for St Patrick's Day

The S&P 500 has swung from -5 points to +8, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq emerging from flat to +64 points at this hour.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Market Futures in the Green... for Now

Session after session we've seen market indexes erode during normal trading hours.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Stay Bleak on More Tariff Warnings

Radical shifts are coming to trade and immigration, but market participants are not yet seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

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Mark Vickery

PPI Wholesale & Jobless Claims Both Lower

Market participants are already discounting this morning's good news because they can see the inflationary road ahead.

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Mark Vickery

CPI +0.2%, Inflation Rate +2.8%: Lower than Expected

How much of this morning's buying appetite is due to sunken valuation levels on key stocks and how much is due to a mildly better CPI?

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Mark Vickery

Markets Slide Again on Tariff Realities

Market indexes were down again today in this continued freefall on tariff fears and open discussion of a potential economic recession.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Melting Away Early-Morning Gains

After today's open, albeit a month in arrears: January JOLTS figures report.

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Mark Vickery

"R-Word" Fears Send Stock Market Much Lower

While the tech-heavy Nasdaq and small-cap Russell 2000 are both -11% over the past month, the Dow is down "only" half that.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Again to Start a New Trading Week

Market indexes last week came in anywhere from -2.25% (Dow) to -3.25% (Nasdaq), and are pointing lower ahead of the open Monday.

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Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs Numbers: +151K, Unemployment +4.1%

A headline number of +151K was below the +170K expected, but pre-markets breathed a sigh of relief.

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Mark Vickery

Heavy March Headwinds Continue: Stocks Market Indexes Down

It's been a dire month for market indexes, no doubt. The Dow is -4.8% over that time period, the S&P 500 is -5.6% and the Nasdaq -8.7%.

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Mark Vickery

ECB Cuts, Jobless Claims Mixed, Trade Deficit Hits Record

While the ECB cut rates 25 bps despite a potential trade war, jobless claims stayed within range but the trade deficit fell through the floor.

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Mark Vickery

ADP +77K, Far Lower than Expected; Tariff News Forthcoming?

We started out this morning in the green across the board, but now see the Dow and S&P 500 lower.

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Mark Vickery

ADP +77K, Far Lower than Expected; Tariff News Forthcoming?

We started out this morning in the green across the board, but now see the Dow and S&P 500 lower.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Break Lower as Tariff Realities Manifest

The specter of higher production costs across the board based on fresh tariffs are giving the market heartburn.

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Mark Vickery

Tariffs Front & Center in Today's Pre-Market: Futures Down

We have no major economic prints out ahead of today's opening bell, so the tariffs are our main focus.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Pull Back Late on New Tariff Talk

Today's fall was steady and modest until this afternoon, when it was announced +25% tariffs are indeed being levied onto our direct neighbors Canada and Mexico.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Pick Up Where Friday Left Off

There seemed to be something of a re-think Friday after indexes had fallen from February 20th through the 27th.

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Mark Vickery

PCE Brings Good News to the Stock Market

Today's PCE report brings something for everyone to be happy about.

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