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Mark Vickery

Best Jobs Report in Months Sends Pre-Markets Higher

At +130K new jobs filled in January, it's double what analysts had been expecting.

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Mark Vickery

Big Week for Economic News, Q4 Earnings Reports

Earnings season has already seen many of its marquee names report so far, but the sheer number of companies reporting increases this week.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Pop Up a Bit, Major Morning for Earnings

Jobless Claims notched their highest weekly print since early December, while BMY, RL, COP & more report earnings.

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Mark Vickery

ADP Jobs Lower, Q4 Earnings Reports Up

Fresh Q4 earnings reports and private-sector jobs numbers are giving something of a jolt to market indexes.

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Mark Vickery

Q4 Earnings, JOLTS & a Changing of the Disney Guard

Disney CEO Bob Iger will step down next month -- not the end of the year, as earlier surmised.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims, Productivity & Earnings: What More Do You Want?

Claims are down, Productivity stayed high, the Trade Deficit slid and Q4 earnings beats came from MA, CAT and VLO.

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Mark Vickery

Jobless Claims Stay Low at +200K, Q3 GDP Up to +4.4%

Weekly Jobless Claims continue to portray a labor market cruising along at a healthy low rate of unemployment claims.

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Mark Vickery

Markets Feast on Trump Reversal for Greenland

That "risk off" switch that was flipped a day or two ago has now been flipped back the other way.

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Mark Vickery

Non-farm Payrolls: Good News & Bad News

A headline of +50K is lower than the downwardly revised +56K the previous month, but the Unemployment Rate fell -20 bps to +4.4%.

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Mark Vickery

Pre-markets Soft on Excellent Economic Data

Futures are in the red this morning, though we wouldn't be surprised if this turns around at some point during normal trading today.

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