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Ahead of Wall Street: Archive

Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Up Slightly to Start Friday Trading

We're devoid of major market catalysts until Q3 earnings season builds next week, when the Big Banks begin reporting on Tuesday morning.

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Party Rally Running Out of Fuel

What can be expected to pull market trading interest back up to earlier levels? Tough to see.

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Pre-markets Flat as Q3 Earnings Season Kicks Off

There are no Weekly Jobless Claims numbers this Thursday, now for the second week in a row.

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S&P 500, Nasdaq Close at Fresh Highs on FOMC Minutes

Market participants hadn't been sure we'd see additional rate cuts into the end of the year, but today's release of the September Fed minutes put that to rest.

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Pre-Markets Up Ahead of Fed Minutes Release

Expected later today are the prepared minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in mid-September.

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Markets Take a Break from Setting New All-Time Highs

Red closes among all major indexes today snapped a seven-day winning streak on the S&P 500.

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Do AI Trees Grow to the Sky?

How much can OpenAI front-run its Stargate project, and how much more money can it borrow to finance these things in the near term?

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Shutdown Continues, Open AI Taps AMD, Fifth Third Buys Comerica

Likely a big reason the tech-heavy Nasdaq continues to set higher and higher all-time levels is that investment in AI is a reality.

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No News Is Good News: Pre-markets Up on Dormant BLS Report

All major indexes are in the green for the trading week, plus-mid-single digits for the month, and double digits (except for the Dow, +9%) year to date.

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No Jobless Claims, Factory Orders - Tech Trade Still Hot

The government shutdown will also likely keep nonfarm payrolls from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from seeing the light of day tomorrow.

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Government Shutdown, Government Shmutdown

Market indexes were ultimately unbothered by this latest federal government shutdown today, to say nothing of the negative private-sector payroll report this morning.

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ADP Sees Negative -32K Jobs in September

-32K jobs were created in the private sector last month, way down from the +45K expected from analysts.

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More Record Closing Highs as Fed Government May Be Closing

All market indexes closed higher today on renewed exuberance for AI.

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Pre-markets Fight Toward the Green with Gov't Shutdown Top of Mind

Conditions appear to be ripe for a government shutdown, as party politics resist effectively working across the aisle on either side.

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Markets Keep at All-Time Highs - Lots of Data Expected This Week

Pending Homes Sales were better than expected, and cannabis stocks got a boost. But there is a lot of grist for the mill coming out in the coming days.

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Pre-markets Up at Record Highs - Will Jobs Numbers Be a Wet Blanket?

Within the specter of new jobs numbers, we do see a bit of risk with market indexes trading at all-time highs.

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PCE Delivers Goldilocks Numbers for the Stock Market

Inflation is still present, but not running out of control. Sounds like "Goldilocks" to pre-market traders.

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Market Indexes Stay Lower 2nd Straight Day, PCE On Deck

We've run out of near-term catalysts for a refreshment to the bull run, at least until tomorrow's PCE report comes out.

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Econ Data Surprisingly Good: Jobless Claims, Q2 GDP, Durable Goods & More

Q2 GDP, instead of moving incrementally higher or lower, blossomed from +3.3% to +3.8% -- half a percentage point.

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New Home Sales Way Up, KB Home & StitchFix Report

StitchFix shares are +10% on its earnings print, while KB Home is vacillating in late trading.

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Pre-markets Modestly Higher Ahead of Late-Week Reports

New Home Sales and KB Home (KBH) earnings await us today, then a bevy of reports culminating in Friday's PCE to follow.

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Pre-markets Flat Following AI Tech Boost

The tech rally looks a bit exhausted at this hour: the Nasdaq is up 1.5 points (0.006%).

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Huge AI Deals Keep Markets at Record Highs

NVIDIA is investing $100 billion into ChatGPT-parent OpenAI's data centers.

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Fed Speeches Today, PCE Report End-of-Week

We hear from a number of Fed members today, including its most-recent member, Stephen Miran.

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A Late Summer Reflection on Growth, Inflation & Jobs

We know that the main concern for the Fed is now the weakening jobs market and not inflation.

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