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Companies brace for Tuesday: Mentions of election surge on earnings conference calls
Voters walk to cast their ballots during early voting in the presidential election at a polling station at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Public Library in Tampa, Florida, U.S., November 1, 2024. Octavio Jones | Reuters Executives at America’s largest companies are talking publicly with investors about the presidential election more so than in recent […]
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Nasdaq 100 futures rise as investors parse latest tech earnings, await jobs data: Live updates
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Nasdaq 100 futures advanced Thursday night as traders analyzed major earnings reports in the runup to the all-important jobs report. Futures tied to the tech-focused index added 0.4%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 141 points, or 0.3%. S&P 500 futures ticked up […]
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Asia markets set for a mixed open after key Wall Street benchmarks clock worst day in 2 months
SHANGHAI, CHINA – MARCH 01: Skyscrapers stand at the Pudong Lujiazui Financial District on March 1, 2022 in Shanghai, China. Xiao Yang | Visual China Group | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were set to open mixed Friday, after Wall Street benchmarks the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 suffered their worst day in nearly two months […]
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How the stock market will react to Friday’s jobs report, according to JPMorgan
JPMorgan’s trading desk has some ideas on how much the stock market might move following Friday’s all-important jobs report. Friday’s data on nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate and wages are the last major economic release before next week’s presidential election and Federal Reserve policy meeting. Economists polled by Dow Jones expect jobs to have grown […]
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These stocks reporting next week almost always beat expectations and rally
A handful of stocks reporting results in the next few days could have the upper hand against their competitors. The coming week will be another busy one for third-quarter earnings, with nearly one fifth of the S & P 500 — or 96 companies — on deck to post their latest results. A variety of […]
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