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BLS Jobs: 223K, 3.5% Unemployment Strong, Wage Growth Down
by Mark Vickery
At 3.5%, we are officially back down to pre-pandemic levels on unemployment.
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Bad News Rife, Markets Down Ahead of Jobs Report
by Mark Vickery
Low guidance and stubbornly high jobs numbers are a recipe for bearishness.
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ADP, Jobless Claims Improve, Pre-Markets Drop
by Mark Vickery
Following this series of healthy economic data, the Dow is now -150 points, the S&P -20 and the Nasdaq -60.
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Fed Minutes Stay Hawkish, Markets Close in the Green
by Mark Vickery
On the one-year anniversary of the Dow and S&P 500 hitting all-time highs, markets notch their first positive session of 2023.
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Pre-Markets Try Again for Positive Session
by Mark Vickery
We should be prepared for a head-fake during the trading day, like we saw following a green pre-market yesterday.
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Once 2023 Starts, Investors Have Work to Do
by Mark Vickery
We'll know a lot more about our economic situation a week from today than we do now.
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Longer-Term Jobless Claims Creeping Higher
by Mark Vickery
We look to 2023 to provide us with clues for when the economy can return to prosperity.
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Looking for Economic News to Turn "Impolite"
by Mark Vickery
Something of less-manageable deterioration in the housing and labor markets might anticipate impolite lower metrics elsewhere over time.
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Apparently, "Good News" Is Still "Bad News"
by Mark Vickery
Our economy continuing to establish its resilience in a rapidly rising interest-rate environment. Naturally, that means we should sell it off.
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Jobless Claims Calm, Q3 GDP Upped to +3.2%
by Mark Vickery
Investors look to be continually manicuring levels of holdings in equities as we get economic data releases that help color in some blank spots in our outlook.
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Pre-Markets Sink Further on Jobless Claims, Retail Sales & More
by Mark Vickery
The dot-plot going forward does not see any 75 bps hikes on the horizon; the Fed's actions in this regard have peaked.
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Fed Hike & Dot-Plot: "Higher for Longer" Now Has a Face
by Mark Vickery
"...For longer" -- it may not even be a real recession; it may feel similarly uncomfortable to where we are today, but for another year or two, rather than another quarter or two.
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CPI Comes Down, Pre-Markets Jump Up
by Mark Vickery
Core CPI year over year -- perhaps the keenest look at overall "sticky" inflation -- is +6.0%, down 10 bps from consensus and lower than the previous +6.3%.
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consumer-discretionary consumer-staples finance industrial-products staffing
New Jobless Claims Steady, Longer-Term Higher
by Mark Vickery
Longer-term claims are the most we've seen since February of this year -- so we'll keep an eye on this going forward.
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Productivity, Labor Costs Behave; Pre-Markets Still Down
by Mark Vickery
If there's a silver lining anywhere in sight, it's that futures are less bad following a revision to a couple key economic prints this morning.
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Santa Claus Rally in No Hurry; Markets Close Lower
by Mark Vickery
All 11 S&P 500 sectors finished the regular trading session lower -- even Energy, which looked to have gotten a bid with firming OPEC+ prices.
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Non-Farm Payrolls Good News Equals Bad News
by Mark Vickery
Perhaps most revealing about this strong employment report was in wages, which were up big -- and unexpectedly.
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New Jobless Claims Down, PCE Flat-to-Down
by Mark Vickery
Basically, a still-strong economy is shrinking some of its inflation bloat, and the Fed Chair has taken note of this.
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Markets Soar Ahead on Powell Rate-Hike Comments
by Mark Vickery
The market indices launched on the Fed Chair's speech: the Dow +737 points, +2.18%, the S&P 500 +3.09% and the Nasdaq zoomed ahead +484 points, or +4.41%.
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ADP Lower at +127K, Q3 GDP Upped to +2.9% & More
by Mark Vickery
While we appear to be staving off a pending slide in the overall economy, we do not expect much by way of shifts to the Fed Chair's perspective this afternoon.
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A Macro Data-Focused Week: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
For the Global Week Ahead, November U.S. nonfarm jobs data, and Euro harmonized consumer price inflation data, can focus the minds of most stock traders.
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Jobless Claims, Goods Orders, Airline Metrics Up Ahead of Holiday
by Mark Vickery
We see higher-than-expected numbers this morning on weekly jobless claims, durable goods and airline travel.
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Nordstrom (JWN) Beats After Close, Stock Sells Off
by Mark Vickery
Guidance looking ahead has been kept pat -- instead of rising -- indicating this is as good as it gets for the higher-end big-box retailer.
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Post-Midterms, Plenty of Things Coming into Focus
by Mark Vickery
This is the first time since 2002 that the party of the White House did not experience big losses in the first midterm election of their administration.
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Economic Data Gradually Dwindles: Jobless Claims, Productivity & More
by Mark Vickery
With a Fed meeting still in our rearview mirror, these data points will not be directly consequential.
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