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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Homebuilding Down, Jobless Claims Up; Fed News Later

As we prepare to honor our Juneteenth holiday Thursday with closed banks and stock markets, we see Weekly Jobless Claims pulled a day earlier to this morning.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Drop on Geopolitical Concerns, Weaker Data

After a mostly weak Retail Sales report this morning, manufacturing data and homebuilder confidence underperformed expectations.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Imports/Exports Reflect Tariff Realities

Retail Sales at -0.9% is the lowest we've seen since January, and below the -0.6% consensus.

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Mark Vickery

Market Puts "Panic Selling" Behind It

The Nasdaq more than made up for Friday's selloff, +294 points today, +1.52%.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets in the Green Ahead of Eventful Week

A bevy of economic reports and a new FOMC meeting are expected on this holiday-shortened week.

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Mark Vickery

Israel Attacks on Iran Send Markets into the Red

This unprecedented event has immediately sent up oil and gold prices on the global market.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up, Bond Yields Down Amid More Tariff Talk

It appears the market has grown tired of trying to trade each new edition of the trade war saga.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Warm Up, PPI Cools Down

As jobless claims inch higher week over week, near-term PPI came in cooler than expected.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Cool on No New Trade Deal News

We had heard a very promising blurb from the president declaring a trade deal with China was done, though not much to advance this has come out in the hours since.

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Mark Vickery

Good News on Trade Deal, CPI Numbers

Further confirmation and details on the trade deal with China will be sought throughout the rest of this trading day.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Keep Nudging Higher Ahead of Trade Deals, CPI

The S&P 500 is now at its highest level since February 20th.

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Pre-Market Futures Have Fingers Crossed for Trade Deals

We can see by the generally positive daily returns this month that market participants are ready to hear some good news.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Flat on No Economic or Trade News; Apple Flops at WWDC

We saw no new trade deals made today, though market participants remain positive that they will be forthcoming.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Flat Ahead of CPI, PPI & Possible Trade Deals

Overall, indexes are roughly flat year over year, although the S&P 500 grew above 6K for the first time since late February.

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Pre-Markets Relieved with Strong Jobs Headline; Revisions Lower

Headline jobs growth came in at +139K -- +14K higher than the +125K anticipated.

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Trump, Musk War of Words Send Indexes Lower Late

An open rift between recently departed DOGE leader and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk sent indexes southward.

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Trump, Xi Speak; Jobless Claims, Productivity & Deficit Reports Out

Pre-market futures are rebounding back into the green on a report that President Trump and President Xi have spoken on the phone this morning.

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Markets Slide to Flat on Jobs, Trade, Beige Book, Earnings

ADP payrolls and the Beige Book slipped today, ahead of earnings results from Five Below.

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ADP Weak 2nd Straight Month: +37K, but Wages Stable

Just +37K new private-sector jobs were created, only a third of the +110K projected. This followed the downwardly revised +60K ADP headline the previous month.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Slightly Lower Ahead of Open; JOLTS, Earnings to Come

The JOLTS report for April is expected to further tick down from 7.19 million job openings in March.

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Markets Close in Green on Mostly Quiet Trading Day

Jobs Week reports begin with the JOLTS numbers out Tuesday morning.

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Jobs Week Starts with More Trade Tensions

Currently both the blue-chip Dow and the tech-heavy Nasdaq are down -100 points, with the S&P 500 down -20.

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PCE for April Shows Economic Resilience

This is good news in terms of demonstrating economic strength, though not for those who'd like to see the Fed lower interest rates.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Stay Green on More Tariff Discourse; Earnings from COST, GAP & More

Market indexes spent almost all day in the green this Thursday, save for a brief scare mid-day.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Stay Green After Tariff Ruling, Jobless Claims, Q1 GDP

Futures had been as high as +2.8% (Russell 2000; half that on the Dow: +1.4%), but have dragged closer to unchanged as the administration vows to appeal the court ruling on tariffs.

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