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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Turn Green for St Patrick's Day

The S&P 500 has swung from -5 points to +8, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq emerging from flat to +64 points at this hour.

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Mark Vickery

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

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

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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.

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Andrew Rocco

Are Tariff Concerns Overblown?

The Trump tariffs may have been the spark that caused the recent market pullback. However, several data points suggest that the market correction may be short-lived and that tariff concerns are overdone.

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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.

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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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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

PCE Brings Good News to the Stock Market

Today's PCE report brings something for everyone to be happy about.

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Bryan Hayes

This Market Leader is Benefitting from Higher Auto Insurance Rates

The biggest beneficiaries of rising insurance prices have undoubtedly been car insurance companies.

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Bryan Hayes

Homebuilders Trade Lower After Toll Brothers Disappoints

The fact that mortgage rates remain high is certainly taking a toll on signing activity in the housing market.

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Shaun Pruitt

Buy Walmart Stock for Steady Growth as Q4 Earnings Approach?

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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Mark Vickery

CPI Grows Uncomfortably Warm, Pre-Markets Sell-Off

Pre-market futures are sinking like a stone on this morning's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data.

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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.

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Bryan Hayes

Fed Set to Hold Rates Steady: Stocks to Watch

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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Mark Vickery

Markets Take a Breather Thursday; JBHT Mixed in Q4

The Dow returned -68 points of yesterday's +700, or -0.16% on the session.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Rally on Soft CPI, Good Q4 Bank Earnings

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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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up Huge on CPI, Q4 Bank Numbers

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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Bryan Hayes

Economy Goes Two-for-Two on Inflation: Stocks to Watch

Light inflation figures should help to further relieve weakness in rate-sensitive pockets of the market like small-caps.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down as Q4 Earnings Season Kicks Off Mid-Week

We're up more than 100 bps on 10-year Treasury bond yields from mid-September levels.

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Mark Vickery

U.S. Jobs Much Hotter than Expected; Pre-markets Sell

+256K new jobs filled in December is the largest monthly figure since March of last year.

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Mark Vickery

Carter Funeral Suspends Stock Market; What to Expect Friday

Expectations are for 155K jobs to have been filled in December, with an Unemployment Rate holding steady at +4.2%.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Mixed, Flatten After Fed Minutes Released

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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Mark Vickery

Markets Swing to Negative on Healthy Econ Data (& Higher Bond Yields)

Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq lost their two-day winning streak, -1.11% and -1.88%, respectively today.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Up Ahead of a New Jobs Week

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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Mark Vickery

PCE Cools in November; Are We Getting an Xmas Government Shutdown?

A federal government shutdown has not happened since 2018-19, the second of two shutdowns in 2018.

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