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Global Week Ahead: Archive

John Blank

Tesla Reports Earnings at Midweek: Global Week Ahead

Year-to-date, Tesla's shares have lost around -11%, compared to the S&P500's +22.5% gain.

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John Blank

Q3 Earnings Season Picks Up: Global Week Ahead

Stronger-than-expected recent labor market data spurred a recalibration of bets on how deeply the Fed will need to cut rates in coming months.

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John Blank

Global Week Ahead: Q3 Earnings Season

This is a packed week for the global economy, especially the unofficial beginning of earnings season. Our Chief Equity Strategist and Economist John Blank goes over the biggest stories of the week and three stocks to watch.

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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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John Blank

The Future Path of U.S. Inflation? Global Week Ahead

U.S. PCE inflation data for August and global business PMI activity surveys for September chart the pressure ahead.

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John Blank

U.S. Fed Rate Cuts! Global Week Ahead

The Federal Reserve should deliver its first interest rate cut in four years, Brazil could hike for the first time since 2022 and Japan will be mindful of volatile markets.

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John Blank

August U.S. CPI Data: Global Week Ahead

Investors are on edge -- ahead of more key macro events -- that could shape the tone for trading in the weeks ahead.

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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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John Blank

Nvidia, Nvidia, Nvidia: Global Week Ahead

Nvidia's (NVDA) chips are seen as the gold standard in the AI-space and its shares are up around 150% this year, helping to power the S&P 500 to record highs.

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John Blank

The 2024 Jackson Hole Symposium: Global Week Ahead

Central bankers from around the globe gather in Jackson Hole, WY, from Thursday for the Fed's annual conference to chart the way forward for monetary policy.

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John Blank

Volatility Stays with Markets: Global Week Ahead

Investors should have learned by now that there's no such thing as a "quiet" summer in the markets. A year ago, bond yields rose sharply on worries about the U.S. fiscal outlook. The summer before, inflation and rate hike fears jolted markets.

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John Blank

Global Week Ahead: Nervous Stock Markets

Earnings season has been pretty solid so far, but that's not enough to calm jittery investors who are concerned about a recession that still appears unlikely. So get ready for another volatile week.

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John Blank

A Week for the Central Banks: Global Week Ahead

Futures tied to the Fed funds rate show investors pricing in a more than 90% chance of a September rate cut amid evidence of cooling inflation and a nascent downshift in the jobs market.

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John Blank

The "Mag 7" Report: Global Week Ahead

Throughout this week, Q2-24 S&P500 earnings will be front and center, as members of the "Magnificent 7" report their results, along with major banks.

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John Blank

A Big Week in the USA: Global Week Ahead

Inflation and higher rates have tested the resilience of households as signs of a cooling economy and inflation bolster expectations for rate cuts to start in September.

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John Blank

June CPI Will Focus Trader Minds: Global Week Ahead

In the Global Week Ahead, Fed Chair Powell's testimony and June CPI data top the stock trader agenda. Starting on Friday, major U.S. banks report Q2 earnings.

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John Blank

Major Elections in the U.K. and France: Global Week Ahead

A watershed U.K. election on July 4th looms, following Sunday, when France went to the polls in a 1st round of its snap election.

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Shaun Pruitt

Global Week Ahead: Key Inflation Data Insight for Interest Rate Moves

In the Global Week Ahead, markets will be awaiting Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) data in the U.S., Tokyo???s CPI index, and preliminary June data from Eurozone economies.

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John Blank

Europe, Asia Rates Stay Put: Global Week Ahead

Central Bank decisions in Europe, from the U.K., Switzerland and Norway, are expected to provide more evidence that the global rate-cutting dash is slowing to a crawl.

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John Blank

A 1st Summer FOMC Meeting: Global Week Ahead

The Fed looks certain to hold rates steady when it ends a two-day meeting on June 12th. Inflation has cooled after aggressive rate hikes, but has not yet fallen to its +2.0% target.

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John Blank

A.I. Reshapes Corporate America: Global Week Ahead

An "AI boom" is showing up across Corporate America. "It looks real," says Zacks Chief Strategist John Blank.

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John Blank

A Big Inflation Data Dump: Global Week Ahead

This fresh inflation data dump will guide both trader and investors' expectations -- over the scale and pace of interest rate changes to come -- in these major economies.

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John Blank

NVDA Shares a Fresh A.I. Story: Global Week Ahead

In the Global Week Ahead, stock and bond markets are hoping for evidence that will solidify a brightening global economic outlook. NVIDIA's earnings on Wednesday will provide plenty of answers.

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John Blank

U.S. CPI Data Resets a Market Narrative: Global Week Ahead

A key set of U.S. Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) data rests at the heart of the stock and bond trading week's macro event calendar.

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John Blank

Any World Markets Not Fed-Linked? Global Week Ahead

Insulating a portfolio from Wall Street's swings is tough. The long-term correlation rate between Europe's Stoxx 600 and the S&P is almost 90%.

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