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Jobless Claims Up, Retail Sales Down; Musk Trying to Buy Twitter (TWTR)
by Mark Vickery
The main story taking up all the oxygen in the room this morning is Elon Musk's aggressive move to buy Twitter (TWTR) for $54.20 per share.
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Mixed Pre-Markets, Historic Lows on Jobless Claims
by Mark Vickery
166K on new jobless claims is a new low going back to 1968, which is extraordinary.
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Nonfarm Payrolls 431K Miss Estimates, but Revisions Way Up
by Mark Vickery
Nonfarm payrolls reached 431K on the headline, while the Unemployment Rate fell to a post-Covid low 3.6%.
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The Good News/Bad News of Q1 2022
by Mark Vickery
All major indexes closed at session lows, but this would appear to have more to do with portfolio positioning than anything bearish.
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Q1 Ending with Markets Slightly Mixed
by Mark Vickery
At these levels, we'll be celebrating our first month in the green of 2022 after two disappointing months.
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Markets Give Back, but Off Session Lows
by Mark Vickery
Perhaps we're getting a bit long in the tooth regarding the markets' post-Fed relief rally, or perhaps we just took a breather.
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ADP +455K, Led by Leisure & Hospitality Again
by Mark Vickery
Results were slightly better than expected at 455K, while February's revision grew 11K to 486K.
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Early 2022 Home Prices Rebound; Jobs & Consumer Data Later
by Mark Vickery
Pre-market futures are up this morning, helping string together the latest bout of positivity in the markets.
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The 60's Are Back (on Jobless Claims)!
by Mark Vickery
Initial Jobless Claims fell precipitously to a total of 187K last week, well below the 210K expected.
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Jobless Claims Down; Housing Starts, Philly Fed Up
by Mark Vickery
Econ data is mostly strong this morning, though indexes look to be giving back some recent gains.
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CPI +7.9% Year Over Year, New Jobless Claims Up
by Mark Vickery
We need to go back 40 years to find a higher monthly year-over-year headline CPI number.
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New Jobs Highest in 7 Months: 678K, 3.8% Unemployment
by Mark Vickery
This is as illustrative a bounce-back from Omicron's temporary sag in the economy as one could expect.
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Jobless Claims Down, Labor Costs (and Pre-Markets) Up
by Mark Vickery
The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 are all trading up in the early market, and higher than they were prior to economic prints released an hour before the open.
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Markets Bounce Back on Springlike Positivity
by Mark Vickery
A feeling of "normalization" has re-entered the markets, welcome as a spring breeze.
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ADP Brings +475K Jobs; Revision Jumps +810K
by Mark Vickery
Private-sector job results were good -- much better than expected, and a world away from what we saw a month ago.
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Bull of the Day: AMN Healthcare (AMN)
by Tracey Ryniec
Healthcare solutions is red-hot in 2022.
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Jobless Claims Up; Housing Starts, Philly Fed Down
by Mark Vickery
Add in continuing tensions at the Ukraine border and the Dow is -140 points at this hour, the S&P 500 is -35 and the Nasdaq is tumbling another -220 points.
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The Stock-Picking Puzzle: Putting The Pieces Together
by Bryan Hayes
The Stock-Picking Puzzle: Putting The Pieces Together
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Huge Jobs Surprise: 467K, Unemployment Rate 4.0%
by Mark Vickery
A total of 467K new jobs were created last month, more than triple the 150K expected, while the Unemployment Rate ticked up to 4.0% from 3.9% previously.
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Jobless Claims Show Omicron Recessing; Productivity Way Up
by Mark Vickery
We saw a nice drop to 238K new jobless claims from the 245K expected, and a healthy step lower than the upwardly revised 261K.
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Groundhog Sees -301K Private-Sector Jobs from ADP
by Mark Vickery
This was the first negative number on ADP headline since December 2020, and the biggest monthly loss since April 2020.
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Nonfarm Payrolls Will Rule: Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
Regardless of how this global money narrative goes, Friday's U.S. nonfarm payroll data will regain the spotlight.
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Good Riddance to a Rough Trading Month
by Mark Vickery
It would be easy to forget we started out its first few trading days notching new all-time highs on both the Dow and the S&P 500.
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Q4 GDP at +6.9%; Jobless Claims, Durable Goods Lower
by Mark Vickery
+6.9% on the headline is 140 basis points higher than expected, and 3x times higher than Q3's +2.3%.
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Bull of the Day: Paychex (PAYX)
by Kevin Cook
Job growth, strong sales, and record client retention make this HR/payroll provider a top candidate
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