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Mark Vickery

Jobs Shrink to 12K on Hurricanes, Strikes; Pre-Markets Up

12K new jobs were filled in October, with downward revisions to the previous two months. The Unemployment Rate remained unchanged at 4.1%.

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Mark Vickery

Un-spooky Halloween: PCE, Jobless Claims Tame

It's hard to wish for a more in-line PCE report, especially considering it's the preferred print on inflation for the Fed.

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Mark Vickery

Goldilocks ADP Jobs Numbers, Q3 GDP and Earnings

ADP private-sector payrolls for October came in at +253K, far ahead of the 113K expected.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Q3 Earnings Mixed: AAL, LUV, UPS and More

Longer-term jobless claims are on the rise after a year-long plateau, while American, Southwest, UPS and Hasbro report Q3 earnings.

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Mark Vickery

Retail Sales, Philly Fed, TSM All Stronger than Expected

The only people disappointed this morning will be people who are looking for an economic downturn in the U.S.

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Mark Vickery

CPI Inflation, Jobless Claims: Both Warmer Than Expected

September's CPI numbers have all come in higher than consensus estimates.

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Mark Vickery

Goldilocks September Jobs Numbers: +254K, +4.1% Unemployment

Better-than-expected jobs numbers, lower unemployment and a temporary end to the dockworkers' strike are sending pre-market futures higher this morning.

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Mark Vickery

ISM Services Jump, Markets Dip Ahead of Jobs Report

The past five months of job growth has deteriorated significantly from the previous five months.

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Mark Vickery

New Jobless Claims 225K: Lukewarm Ahead of Friday's BLS Report

Jobless Claims remain very well-behaved numbers overall, especially after mid-summer we were seeing 250K new claims, which helped foment a bit of fear in the labor market.

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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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