
Morning Watchlist: Jobs Data, AVGO Earnings Ahead
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U.S. stock futures are relatively flat in the premarket with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 on three-session win streaks. Despite lower than expected ADP private payrolls and ISM services data on Wednesday, big tech is leading the markets with the S&P 500 less than 3% from its all-time high. Focus today will be on Jobless Claims data along with earnings from Broadcom (AVGO) after the closing bell.
Snapshot (as of 7 AM ET)
- Oil (/CL) – Oil prices are up 0.1% near $63 a barrel after a build in U.S. gasoline and diesel inventories and Saudi Arabia’s cut to its July prices for Asian crude buyers.
- Gold (/GC) – Gold is 0.6% near $3420 as investors assessed weaker-than-expected U.S. data and ongoing global economic and political uncertainties, while looking ahead to U.S. payroll data for further economic cues.
- Bitcoin (/BTC) – The Crypto Future is relatively flat near 105K in the premarket.
- VIX – The CBOE Volatility Index was down 0.5% on Wednesday and settled at 17.61 as stocks were relatively flat.
- U.S. Dollar (/DX) – The dollar is also flat at 98.8.
Biggest Premarket Movers (Mark % Change as of 7 AM ET)
- Freeport-McMoRan (FCX): +2.06%
- Match Group (MTCH): +1.84%
- Dollar Tree (DLTR): +1.70%
- Tesla (TSLA): -2.20%
- Palantir (PLTR): -0.78%
- Home Depot (HD): -0.49%
Economic Data
- 7:30AM ET: Challenger Job Cuts
- 8:15AM ET: EBC Announcement
- 8:30AM ET: Jobless Claims, Intl. Trade in Goods, Productivity & Costs
- 10:30AM ET: Natural Gas Inventories
- 12:00PM ET: Fed’s Kugler Speaks
- 1:30PM ET: Fed’s Harker/Schmid Speak
Notable Earnings
- Premarket: BF/B, CIEN, CBRL, DLTH, MOMO, LE, TTC
- Postmarket: AVGO, DOCU, GES, LULU, WOOF, RENT, TTAN, MTN, ZUMZ
- Premarket Tomorrow: ABM, GIII, MANU
- Postmarket Tomorrow: None
Upgrades/Downgrades
- Mizuho upgrades Visa (V) Outperform from Neutral
- Erste Group upgrades Broadcom (AVGO) to Buy from Hold
- Bernstein upgrades Texas Instruments (TXN) to Market Perform from Underperform
- Erste Group downgrades Salesforce (CRM) to Hold from Buy
- Jefferies downgrades Chewy (CHWY) to Hold from Buy
- Erste Group downgrades Eli Lilly (LLY) to Hold from Buy