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Morning Watchlist: PCE in Focus, Tariff Headlines Continue
Tom White
March 28, 2025
U.S. Stock Futures are slightly lower ahead of the Wall Street open after another choppy session on Thursday. Stocks have been under pressure at the tail end of the week as tariff headlines continues to create uncertainty for markets. Investor focus turns to personal income and outlays data today with expectations of the headline PCE price index reading rising 0.3% in February and 2.5% from 12 months earlier.
Morning Movers
Snapshot (as of 7 AM ET)
Oil (/CL) – Oil prices are flat just under $70.
Gold (/GC) – Gold is up three-quarters of a percent to $31K.
Bitcoin (/BTC) – The cryptocurrency is down over 2% to the $85K level.
VIX – The CBOE Volatility Index has risen to 19.
U.S. Dollar (/DX) – The dollar is flat around 104.
Biggest Premarket Movers
Symbol | Product | Mark % Change (as of 7 AM ET) |
|---|---|---|
WRB | W.R. Berkley | +7.12% |
SMCI | Super Micro Computer | +2.04% |
TSLA | Tesla | +1.05% |
LULU | Lululemon | -11.44% |
DLTR | Dollar Tree | -1.14% |
PLTR | Palantir | -0.89% |
Economic Data
Time | Event |
|---|---|
8:30AM ET | Personal Income/Outlays |
10:00AM ET | Consumer Sentiment |
12:15PM ET | Fed’s Barr Speaks |
3:45PM ET | Fed’s Bostic Speaks |
Earnings
Premarket | Postmarket | Premarket Monday | Postmarket Monday |
|---|---|---|---|
None | None | None | PRGS, PVH |
Upgrades/Downgrades
Jefferies upgrades Applied Materials (AMAT) to Buy from Hold
BMO Capital upgrades Check Point (CHKP) to Outperform from Market Perform
Barclays upgrades Ferrari (RACE) to Overweight from Equal Weight
Jefferies downgrades KLA Corp. (KLAC) to Hold from Buy
Raymond James downgrades Lululemon (LULU) to Market Perform from Outperform
BofA downgrades Schneider National (SNDR) to Neutral from Buy
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