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Mark Vickery

ADP Up +143K, an Improvement on Private-Sector Payrolls

ADP released private-sector payrolls this morning, and results were better than anticipated.

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Mark Vickery

JOLTS, Manufacturing, Construction, Nike: A Full Day for the Market

Manufacturing looks to continue progressing toward breakeven, while JOLTS data is expected to be mild. Plus Nike (NKE) earnings.

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John Blank

Final Quarter of 2024 Begins: Global Week Ahead

National Day, aka "Golden Week," is a public holiday in China, and will stretch over the first full week of October.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Lower Ahead of Jobs Data This Week

Numerous jobs reports will command much of this week's market attention.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims 218K, Q2 GDP +3.0%, Durable Goods Unchanged

A plethora of new economic data has hit the tape this morning, and none of it has caused an unraveling in the gains made so far.

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Mark Vickery

Fresh Highs for Dow, S&P in Monday Trading

"We would love to freeze both sides of the Fed's dual mandate right here," said Chicago Fed Chair Austan Goolsbee.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Members Make Their Voices Heard This Week

What may be most important to investors this week are the vast amounts of commentary coming from members of the Fed.

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Mark Vickery

Coming Up Late-Summer Roses: Fed Rates, Jobless Claims and More

Yesterday signaled a new era of bringing down interest rates in the continued effort to bring a "soft landing" to the economy.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Up for the Week (So Far) on Inflation and Jobs

On the path to a lower Fed funds rate next week for the first time in years, CPI, PPI and Jobless Claims numbers performed decently.

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Mark Vickery

Jobs Report, Revisions Lower: 50 bps Cut in the Cards?

Headline BLS is -19K below expectations, and we also see fairly drastic downward revisions for both June and July.

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Mark Vickery

Inflation Controlled: ADP, Labor Costs, Jobless Claims

While ADP shows only 99K jobs filled last month, Unit Labor Costs came in half of expectations.

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Mark Vickery

Fed Rate Cut Alert: The Case for 50 bps?

While JOLTS numbers don't beg for a 50 bps rate cut in two weeks, depleted jobs numbers to close the week just might.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Again; Trade Deficit and Dick's Q2 Improve

While the latest Trade Deficit was slimmer than expected, Dick's (DKS) and Dollar Tree (DLTR) report vastly different Q2 results.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Sell Off as Labor Market Data Looms

This was the worst single trading day for tech stocks two years -- the worst for the chips segment since 2020.

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John Blank

U.S. August Jobs Numbers Dominate: Global Week Ahead

In the Global Week Ahead, U.S. jobs numbers dominate the agenda, as markets brace for a choppy September.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Down Ahead of "Jobs Week"

This is the latest Jobs Week, and one that comes only a week before the next FOMC meeting.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-Markets Mildly Positive; WSM and BJ Drop on Q2 Earnings

Weekly Jobless Claims stayed well behaved, and Williams-Sonoma and BJ's beat on earnings but trade down on guidance.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Close Higher on Earnings, Job Revisions and Fed Minutes

BLS employment numbers are now -818K fewer than originally reported from April 2023 to March 2024.

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Mark Vickery

Target Up Big on Q2 Beat; Payroll Adjustment, Fed Minutes Expected

The return to top-line growth - the first since 2022 - is a welcome development for Target stock buyers this morning.

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Ethan Feller

Bear of the Day: Robert Half Inc. (RHI)

Robert Half Inc. is seeing its core business stagnate while holding on to a premium valuation

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Mark Vickery

The Fear Is Real: Pre-Markets Plummet on Jobs Numbers

Once the Employment Situation numbers hit the tape this morning, three of the four major indices fell like a stone.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Productivity Higher; TM, WEN, CROX Report

Initial Jobless Claims came in at their highest levels in almost a year, to 249K -- well above the 235K anticipated.

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Brian Bolan

Bear Of The Day: Robert Half Inc (RHI)

This ended a streak of beat with a recent miss and earnings estimates have dropped as a result.

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Mark Vickery

Big Day of Market Data: Q2 Earnings, GDP, Jobless Claims

Following the worst trading day of the year so far, this data has helped swing pre-market indices into the green.

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Mark Vickery

CPI, Jobless Claims Brings Goldilocks Scenario

Today brings us the slimmest Inflation Rate we've seen since March 2021 -- back when inflation was going the opposite direction.

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