Morning Watchlist: Jobs Data, AVGO Earnings Ahead

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.

Morning Movers

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

Symbol

Product

Mark % Change (as of 7 AM ET)

FCX

Freeport-McMoRan

+2.06%

MTCH

Match Group

+1.84%

DLTR

Dollar Tree

+1.70%

TSLA

Tesla

-2.20%

PLTR

Palantir

-0.78%

HD

Home Depot

-0.49%

Economic Data

Time

Event

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

Postmarket

Premarket Tomorrow

Postmarket Tomorrow

BF/B, CIEN, CBRL, DLTH, MOMO, LE, TTC

AVGO, DOCU, GES, LULU, WOOF, RENT, TTAN, MTN, ZUMZ

ABM, GIII, MANU

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

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