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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Q1 Productivity Hit Multi-Year Levels

Continuing Jobless Claims stayed above 1.9 million, and Productivity posted its first negative headline, in years.

COPNegative Net Change CROXNegative Net Change SHOPNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs +177K, Better than Expected; Unemployment +4.2%

Monthly jobs stayed at a healthy level, with wage growth cooling. Pre-market traders love it, sending major indexes up higher this morning.

CVXNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change WENNegative Net Change PIPRNegative Net Change SHELNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

First Negative GDP in 3+ Years: -0.3%; Pre-Markets Down

With ADP coming in half of what was expected and Q1 GDP -0.3%, we can understand the downward pressure in the pre-market.

MSFTNegative Net Change ADPNegative Net Change METANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

JOLTS, Confidence, Home Prices and Q1 Earnings Make an Eventful Day

Major indexes gains from 0.5-0.75% in today's trading, on a plethora of data across many realms of the market.

VNegative Net Change SBUXPositive Net Change STXNegative Net Change BKNGNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Market Drama Shifts: Dow Lower on UNH Miss

Since April 2nd, the Dow is -7.65%, the S&P 500 -6.71%, the Nasdaq -6.19% and the small-cap Russell 2000 -8.62%.

UNHPositive Net Change NFLXPositive Net Change AXPNegative Net Change DHINegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

CPI Falls, Pre-Markets Give Back Some Gains

Futures are down, but better after morning economic data was released an hour ahead of the opening bell.

QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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.

DDPositive Net Change QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

John Blank

The March Job Report Informs Traders: Global Week Ahead

Under Elon Musk's DOGE government efficiency drive, tens of thousands of workers from the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce have been fired or agreed to take a buyout.

FMSPositive Net Change UINegative Net Change RDDTNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Q1 Ends Today, Jobs Week & Tariffs - Oh My!

Wednesday is private-sector payrolls from ADP (ADP), Thursday has Weekly Jobless Claims and Friday is the Employment Situation report from the U.S. government.

WFCNegative Net Change JPMPositive Net Change ADPNegative Net Change DALNegative Net Change GESNegative Net Change PVHPositive Net Change RHPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Moderating Economic Prints, Mixed Pre-Markets

Jobless Claims stay steady, Trade Balance in Goods comes down slightly but are still historically deep.

QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Lower; Economic News Decent

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

DRINegative Net Change QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

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

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

QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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.

QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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.

SFIXNo Net Change

Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Melting Away Early-Morning Gains

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

DKSPositive Net Change QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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.

QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

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.

CBRLPositive Net Change MPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change AVGOPositive Net Change BURLNegative Net Change

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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John Blank

What Will the FEB U.S. Jobs Report Show? Global Week Ahead

U.S. jobs data on March 7th comes as worrisome indicators about business activity and consumer confidence raise yellow flags about the economy and a push by the Trump administration to slash the federal workforce.

GRMNNegative Net Change ATEYYPositive Net Change CVNANegative Net Change

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.

FNegative Net Change ADPNegative Net Change TGTPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change GMPositive Net Change AVGOPositive Net Change TSLAPositive Net Change

Mark Vickery

Big Morning for Economic Data: Jobless Claims, GDP & More

Pre-market indexes are up again this morning, though all week this has been the case.

QQQNegative Net Change SPYNegative Net Change DIANegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

Steady Jobless Claims, Good Philly Fed, Healthy Q4 Earnings

Pre-markets are once again starting off lower, but the S&P 500 is working on a two-day record-closing-high.

WMTNegative Net Change TRIPNegative Net Change BABAPositive Net Change WNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

BLS Jobs Numbers +143K, Unemployment Rate +4.0%

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.

KONegative Net Change CSCONegative Net Change LOWNegative Net Change MCDNegative Net Change HMCPositive Net Change SHOPNegative Net Change

Mark Vickery

ADP Jobs Report Strong in January; Q4 Earnings Roll Along

ADP unveiled +183K new private-sector jobs last month -- well ahead of the +150K expected.

FNegative Net Change QCOMPositive Net Change ADPNegative Net Change DISNegative Net Change ARMNegative Net Change MSTRPositive Net Change