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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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Pre-Markets Stay Negative Ahead of JOLTS Report
by Mark Vickery
Today marks the start of so-called "Jobs Week," with Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for October out at 10 am ET.
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Can Festive "Risk-On" Cheer Continue? Global Week Ahead
by John Blank
"Risk-on" cheer came early to world markets. Has a year-end Santa Claus stock and bond market rally already happened?
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Pre-Markets Lower Ahead of Big Jobs Week
by Mark Vickery
Without predicting any surprises one way or another, jobs data is expected to remain overall complimentary to a good economy.
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Big Inflation Data Morning: PCE, Income & Spending, Jobless Claims
by Mark Vickery
PCE is behaving as well as can be expected, spending and income remain reasonably OK, but longer-term joblessness appears to be a developing economic headwind.
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Jobless Claims, Durable Goods, Deere Q4 Earnings All Drop
by Mark Vickery
New jobless claims for last week dropped to 209K -- 20K fewer than analysts were looking for.
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Long-Term Jobless Claims Highest in 2 Years; Walmart Meets, Macy's Beats
by Mark Vickery
Continuing Claims rose for the eighth-straight week, to 1.865 million from a slight downward revision.
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Pre-Markets Strong on Higher Bond Rates, Mixed Earnings
by Mark Vickery
While this positive sentiment is welcome, we note bond yield rates going higher this morning.
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Jobs Cut in Half to 150K; Unemployment +3.9%
by Mark Vickery
Today's headline BLS number is 150K, below the 170-180K expected, and well below the downwardly revised 297K the previous month.
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Markets Up Big Again; Apple (AAPL) Beats Modestly
by Mark Vickery
Bond yield rates came down notably from their multi-year highs, with the 2-year back below 5% and the 10-year down to 4.663%.
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Jobless Claims, Q3 Productivity Up - So Are the Pre-Markets
by Mark Vickery
Much of what we see up on major indices this morning came after much of this economic data was reported.
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ADP Jobs +113K Lower than Expected; Fed at 2pm
by Mark Vickery
This means we're still creating more than the amount of monthly private-sector jobs the economy needs to offset retiring Baby Boomers.
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Q3 GDP +4.9%, Earnings Beats for UPS, Bristol Myers and Honeywell
by Mark Vickery
In the preliminary Q3 GDP print, consumer spending jumped to +4.0% while private domestic investment roared ahead +8.4%.
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Q3 Earnings Mixed, Big Results Expected After-Hours
by Mark Vickery
The Dow is the sole major index in the green this morning, boosted by Microsoft's strong performance yesterday afternoon.
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Jobs Numbers Double to 336K on Low Wage Growth
by Mark Vickery
Yes, folks - the "good news is bad news" scenario is not dead yet.
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Markets Just Miss Closing in the Green
by Mark Vickery
Tomorrow's Employment Situation is the biggest economic news event of the week, and we hold out hope it may have a positive effect on Friday's trading.
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Initial, Continuing Jobless Claims Down Again
by Mark Vickery
What we continue to see is overall strength, even if private-sector payrolls yesterday melted down to sub-100K for the first time in quite a while.
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Markets Close in the Green; Services Prints Modest
by Mark Vickery
Even though it was a little topsy-turvy on the indices, all four majors finished in the green.
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