Directional Bias For The Day:
S&P Futures are higher;- The odds are for an up day – watch for break below 3294.50 for change of fortune
- Key economic data due:
- Retail Sales ( 0.3% vs. 0.3% est.; prev. 0.3%) at 8:30 AM
- Core Retail Sales (0.7% vs. 0.5% est.; prev. 0.1%) at 8:30 AM
- Philly Fed Manufacturing Index (17.0 vs. 3.7 est.; prev. 0.3) at 8:30 AM
- Import Prices ( 0.3% vs. 0.3% est.; prev. 0.1%) at 8:30 AM
- Unemployment Claims ( 204K vs. 217K est.; prev. 214K) at 8:30 AM
- NAHB Housing Market Index ( est. 74 ; prev. 76) at 10:00 AM
- Business Inventories ( est. -0.1%; prev. 0.2%) at 10:00 AM
Directional Bias Before Open:
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Key Levels:
- Critical support levels for S&P 500 are 3298.66, 3280.69 and 3277.19
- Critical resistance levels for S&P 500 are 3307.52, 3316.37 and 3332.72
- Key levels for eMini futures: break above 3308.00, the high of 3:30 AM and break below 3294.50, the low of 8:30 PM
Pre-Open
- On Wednesday, at 4:00 PM, S&P future (March 2020) closed at 3291.00 and the index closed at 3289.29 – a spread of about +1.75 points; futures closed at 3293.75 for the day; the fair value is -2.75
- Pre-NYSE session open, futures are higher – at 8:15 AM, S&P 500 futures were up by +10.00; Dow by +72 and NASDAQ by +34.50
Markets Around The World
- Markets in the East closed mostly higher – Shanghai was down;
- European markets are mostly lower – Spain and Italy are up
- Currencies:
Up Down - EUR/USD
- GBP/USD
- USD/JPY
- AUD/USD
- NZD/USD
- INR/USD
- Dollar index
- USD/CHF
- USD/CAD
- Commodities:
Up Down - NatGas
- Gold
- Silver
- Copper
- Platinum
- Palladium
- Cocoa
- Crude Oil
- Sugar
- Coffee
- Cotton
- Bonds
- 10-yrs yield closed at 1.788%, down from January 14 close of 1.818%;
- 30-years is at 2.242%, down from 2.275%
- 2-years yield is at 1.548%, down from 1.568%
- The 10-Year-&-2-Year spread is at 0.240 down from 0.250
- VIX
- Is at 12.15 down -0.27 from January 15; below 5-day SMA
- Recent high was 16.39 on January 6; recent low was 11.72 on December 26
The trend and patterns on various time frames for S&P 500:
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Previous Session
From Briefing.com:
The stock market set new highs in the moments leading up to signing of the Phase One trade deal on Wednesday, but a fade in momentum left the S&P 500 up just 0.2% for the session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.3%) closed at a record high, the Nasdaq Composite increased 0.1%, and Russell 2000 increased 0.4%.
[…]The defensive-oriented S&P 500 utilities (+1.4%), health care (+0.9%), real estate (+0.8%), and consumer staples (+0.7%) sectors were today’s best-performing sectors. Conversely, the energy (-0.7%), financials (-0.6%), and consumer discretionary (-0.3%) sectors finished in the red.
[…]U.S. Treasuries ended the session on a higher note as part of a defensive-oriented trade. The 2-yr yield and the 10-yr yield declined three basis points each to 1.55% and 1.79%, respectively. The U.S. Dollar Index declined 0.2% to 97.23. WTI crude declined 0.8%, or $0.44, to $57.86/bbl.
[…]• The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.1% (Briefing.com consensus +0.2%) and so did the Producer Price index for final demand, excluding food and energy (Briefing.com consensus +0.2%). Those changes left the yr/yr increases at 1.3% and 1.1%, respectively, versus 1.1% and 1.3% in November.
o The key takeaway from the report is that it isn’t going to convince the Federal Reserve that it needs to raise its policy rate soon.
• The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a 30.2% surge in weekly mortgage applications, which included a 16% increase in purchase application volume.
• The Empire State Manufacturing Survey for January increased to 4.8 (Briefing.com consensus 2.8) from the prior month’s reading of 3.5.
• The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book for December noted that economic activity during the last six weeks of 2019 continued expanding at a modest pace.