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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Productivity & Earnings: What More Do You Want?

Claims are down, Productivity stayed high, the Trade Deficit slid and Q4 earnings beats came from MA, CAT and VLO.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Stay Low at +200K, Q3 GDP Up to +4.4%

Weekly Jobless Claims continue to portray a labor market cruising along at a healthy low rate of unemployment claims.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Feast on Trump Reversal for Greenland

That "risk off" switch that was flipped a day or two ago has now been flipped back the other way.

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Mark Vickery

Non-farm Payrolls: Good News & Bad News

A headline of +50K is lower than the downwardly revised +56K the previous month, but the Unemployment Rate fell -20 bps to +4.4%.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Soft on Excellent Economic Data

Futures are in the red this morning, though we wouldn't be surprised if this turns around at some point during normal trading today.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Settle Mixed on Big Day for Data

A day of steady reporting on the labor market and goods-producers sent market indexes in different directions today.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Rebounds to +41K, JOLTS & ISM Services After the Open

Private-sector payrolls hit +41K last month, -7K from consensus and nicely up from the prior month's upwardly revised -29K.

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John Blank

A Final 2025 Payroll Report Sets the Tone: Global Week Ahead

U.S. payrolls, Canadian jobs, a huge round of global inflation reports, and one solitary central bank decision out of Peru are this week's major economic events.

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Mark Vickery

Looking Ahead to a New "Jobs Week"

"Jobs Week" starts Wednesday with ADP private-sector payrolls and JOLTS numbers, and ends Friday with the full BLS report.

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Tracey Ryniec

Bull of the Day: Kforce (KFRC)

Is the staffing slowdown over?

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