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PCE Brings Good News to the Stock Market
by Mark Vickery
Today's PCE report brings something for everyone to be happy about.
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This Market Leader is Benefitting from Higher Auto Insurance Rates
by Bryan Hayes
The biggest beneficiaries of rising insurance prices have undoubtedly been car insurance companies.
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Homebuilders Trade Lower After Toll Brothers Disappoints
by Bryan Hayes
The fact that mortgage rates remain high is certainly taking a toll on signing activity in the housing market.
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Buy Walmart Stock for Steady Growth as Q4 Earnings Approach?
by Shaun Pruitt
Walmart's (WMT) steady growth has catapulted its stock over the last year, with the omnichannel retailer set to release Q4 results on Thursday, February 20.
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CPI Grows Uncomfortably Warm, Pre-Markets Sell-Off
by Mark Vickery
Pre-market futures are sinking like a stone on this morning's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.
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BLS Jobs Numbers +143K, Unemployment Rate +4.0%
by Mark Vickery
The quick-take on this reaction is that the market recognizes that a healthy labor market subtracts from the possibility a new interest rate cut.
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Fed Set to Hold Rates Steady: Stocks to Watch
by Bryan Hayes
Plenty of stocks managed to buck the sell-off on Monday. We want to look for stocks that hold up well through volatile periods.
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Markets Take a Breather Thursday; JBHT Mixed in Q4
by Mark Vickery
The Dow returned -68 points of yesterday's +700, or -0.16% on the session.
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Markets Rally on Soft CPI, Good Q4 Bank Earnings
by Mark Vickery
There's no guarantee that a cut is coming, but more soft economic data may eventually prod the Fed to be convinced to follow its own dot-plot from late last year.
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Pre-Markets Up Huge on CPI, Q4 Bank Numbers
by Mark Vickery
While CPI numbers ultimately lack a level of glamour, pre-market trading is taking them as a permission to push higher.
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Economy Goes Two-for-Two on Inflation: Stocks to Watch
by Bryan Hayes
Light inflation figures should help to further relieve weakness in rate-sensitive pockets of the market like small-caps.
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Pre-Markets Down as Q4 Earnings Season Kicks Off Mid-Week
by Mark Vickery
We're up more than 100 bps on 10-year Treasury bond yields from mid-September levels.
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U.S. Jobs Much Hotter than Expected; Pre-markets Sell
by Mark Vickery
+256K new jobs filled in December is the largest monthly figure since March of last year.
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Carter Funeral Suspends Stock Market; What to Expect Friday
by Mark Vickery
Expectations are for 155K jobs to have been filled in December, with an Unemployment Rate holding steady at +4.2%.
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Markets Mixed, Flatten After Fed Minutes Released
by Mark Vickery
While the Fed sees longer-term trends still pointing generally toward +2% inflation, several of the members also now see risks inherent in the economy ahead.
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Markets Swing to Negative on Healthy Econ Data (& Higher Bond Yields)
by Mark Vickery
Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lost their two-day winning streak, -1.11% and -1.88%, respectively today.
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Pre-Markets Up Ahead of a New Jobs Week
by Mark Vickery
As jobs reports hit the tape, keep in mind the Fed's dual mandate: not just curbing inflation but also fostering full employment.
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PCE Cools in November; Are We Getting an Xmas Government Shutdown?
by Mark Vickery
A federal government shutdown has not happened since 2018-19, the second of two shutdowns in 2018.
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Pre-Markets Look to Bounce Back from Big Wednesday Selloff
by Mark Vickery
Early trading is filling in some of the big holes dug in the stock market yesterday.
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Stock Market Sells Off on New Fed Rate Policy
by Mark Vickery
The Fed is only looking to cut two more times in the new year, instead of the previous dot-plot's indicated four cuts.
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Pre-markets Go Green Ahead of Fed Interest Rate Decision
by Mark Vickery
The big news will likely not be the decision on interest rates, but how the Fed's tone has changed.
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Markets Lower Ahead of Fed Policy Decision, Forward View
by Mark Vickery
The Dow slipped another -267 points, -0.61%, the S&P 500 was -0.39%, the Nasdaq -0.32%.
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Fed Decision Wednesday in Focus This Week
by Mark Vickery
Expectations are strong for another 25 basis-point (bps) cut to the Fed funds rate, which would bring effective interest rates to a range of 4.25-4.50% for the first time since February of 2023.
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Nasdaq Up, Dow Down: A Week in Review
by Mark Vickery
It's Friday the 13th, but pre-market futures are not spooked.
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PPI Up Big on Hotter Food Prices, Jobless Claims Higher
by Mark Vickery
Headline PPI month over month came in double expectations to +0.4%, the highest since June of this year.
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