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Pre-Markets Enjoy PCE Report; Jobless Claims Rise
by Mark Vickery
PCE numbers suggest that the consumer appetite is cooling a bit, but perhaps in a responsible way.
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Pre-Markets Bask in NVIDIA, Lower Jobless Claims
by Mark Vickery
The Nasdaq, led by NVIDIA, is up +360 points at this hour. Even the Dow is +200 points.
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BLS Jobs Up Big: 353K, 3.7% Unemployment
by Mark Vickery
353K new jobs created for January are nearly double the 180K or so analysts were looking for.
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Jobless Claims & Productivity Leap Higher; CAH, IP, HON Report
by Mark Vickery
Once the market closes, we'll await earnings reports from three of the Magnificent 7 stocks: Apple, Amazon and Meta.
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ADP Cools to 107K Private-Sector Jobs; BA, NVO Beat in Q4
by Mark Vickery
We've now spent a full six months sub-200K private-sector job gains per month.
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It's Jobs Week Already? Plus Q4 Reports from MSFT, GOOGL, AAPL, AMZN
by Mark Vickery
This week starts slow, but we'll end it with a full-fledged Jobs Week for February. Plus more than half the Magnificent 7 reports earnings.
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Big Morning for Trading News: Q4 GDP, Jobless Claims, Durable Goods & More
by Mark Vickery
The S&P 500 seeks its fifth-straight record high in as many trading sessions.
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New Econ Reports Keep Recession at Bay
by Mark Vickery
Domestic employment is as robust an indication there is that a recession remains off the foreseeable horizon.
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CPI Warmer than Expected; Jobless Claims Stay Low
by Mark Vickery
Core CPI year over year of +3.9% is the first sub-4% print since May 2021.
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Jobs +216K, Unemployment 3.7%: Better than Expected
by Mark Vickery
If you're looking for data that will allow the Fed to put some slack in interest rates near-term, these numbers are a disappointment.
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Early 2024 Markets Sweep Up Excesses
by Mark Vickery
All major indices are in the red so far in the first trading week of 2024, with the small-cap Russell down nearly -5% in just three days.
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ADP, Jobless Claims Better than Expected
by Mark Vickery
ADP private-sector payrolls for December came in hotter than expected: 164K versus 130K consensus.
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On Inflation Management and High Expectations
by Mark Vickery
If there's one sure way for the Fed to instigate an economic recession, it would be by keeping rates abnormally high for too long of a time.
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Jobs Week to Kick Off with JOLTS; Fed Minutes Today
by Mark Vickery
We'll also get private-sector payrolls from ADP (ADP) for December along with Weekly Jobless Claims tomorrow, and the all-important Employment Situation report Friday morning.
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On the Last Trading Day of 2023, Looking Ahead to Jobs Week
by Mark Vickery
As always, we look for clues as to where things are headed in 2024, and next week brings a fresh Jobs Week.
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Labor, Housing Stay Healthy Going into 2024
by Mark Vickery
The Dow is striking new all-time highs (not seen in almost two years, by the way), and the S&P is too, but we're still off November 2021 all-time highs on the Nasdaq and Russell.
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Santa Claus Rally Losing Steam; Jobless Claims Up a Bit
by Mark Vickery
The economy has done better than expected through 2023 -- how long can this continue?
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After Big Gains, Is a "Santa Claus Rally" Possible?
by Mark Vickery
Any Santa Claus rally from here would likely be a resuming of bullish narratives followed over the past couple weeks.
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Bring on Santa! Economic Prints (Mostly) Favorable
by Mark Vickery
After Q3 GDP, jobless claims and Philly Fed, results in the markets have been to drive higher while yield rates on 2-year and 10-year Treasury bonds have been falling.
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Economic Data Supports Fed Positivity
by Mark Vickery
We appear to be on the other side of the mountain, and market participants are rejoicing.
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BLS Shows 199K New Jobs; Unemployment Down to 3.7%
by Mark Vickery
This 199K figure is roughly in the median of the past several months, which had been roughly double during the Great Reopening period.
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Lululemon, Broadcom Beat After-Hours; Jobs Report Tomorrow
by Mark Vickery
Tomorrow morning is the big Employment Situation report, expected to bring in 190K new jobs for November.
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Jobless Claims Cool Week Over Week; Pre-Markets Up
by Mark Vickery
After seeing last week's headline Continuing Claims spike up north of 1.9 million, today's number is back down to 1.861 million.
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ADP 103K, Productivity +5.2%: Goldilocks-Adjacent
by Mark Vickery
At roughly 100K private-sector job gains per month, we're still on track for a soft landing in the overall economy.
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JOLTS Data Tame, Most Indices See Profits Booked
by Mark Vickery
JOLTS results came in lower than expected: 8.7 million domestic job openings fell -617K from the previous month's downwardly revised 9.4 million.
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