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Mark Vickery

CPI Inflation Rate at +2.3%, Earnings Reports Mixed

The Inflation Rate for April came in at a 4-year low to +2.3%, 10 bps beneath expectations.

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Mark Vickery

Tariff Talk Returns to Sink Markets; Plus Q1 Earnings

President Trump's return to tough tariff talk has informed today's market sentiment.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Slip Lower on Record Trade Deficit, Q1 Earnings

A new record-low trade deficit may be contributing to the sour mood this morning in pre-market trading.

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Bryan Hayes

Bullish Signals Mount as Q1 Earnings Surprise to the Upside

Tech giants Meta and Microsoft are surging; bulls would like to see further positive reactions to earnings.

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Mark Vickery

Steady PCE, Higher Pending Home Sales, Help Bolster Hump Day Trading

While PCE month over month was flat on both headline and core, Pending Home Sales increased and late earnings reports posted beats.

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Yashwardhan Jain

ETFs to Defend Your Portfolio Against Inflation

Look at ETFs to safeguard your portfolios as inflation expectations rise, driven by the Trump administration's chaotic tariff policies.

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Mark Vickery

Market Indexes Tank Again, but Gold Continues to Shine

The COMEX closed today's session climbed +3.3% today to a current spot price of $3426 per ounce -- a new record high.

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Mark Vickery

Expect the Unexpected for a New Trading Week

Every week brings us big headlines, and there is nothing to suggest this will calm in the near term.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Drop Again on Fed Chair Powell's Assessment

The S&P 500 was down -1% as Powell took the stage at the Economic Club of Chicago today, and -2% when he left.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Q1 Earnings Show Signs of "Pull Forward"

A trade tariff casualty - NVIDIA - is sending the Nasdaq lower than the other major indexes ahead of the open.

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Bryan Hayes

Sidestepping Tariff Noise: TJ Maxx Parent Hits All-Time High

Given the retailer's advantaged position, it's no surprise that TJX stock is flourishing this year.

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Mark Vickery

U.S./China Trade at +125% Standoff, PPI Slides, Big Banks Report Q1

Trade between the U.S. and China -- worth $582 billion in 2024 -- has apparently ground to a halt.

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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.

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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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John Blank

The First Q1 Earnings Land: Global Week Ahead

Global investors have yearned for clarity over President Trump's tariffs. But now they have it, and don't much like what they see.

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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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