Directional Bias For The Day:

• S&P Futures are higher near the upper bound of a Horizontal Channel between 4235.00 and 4212.00
• The odds are for an up to a sideways day – watch for a break below 4224.00
• Key economic data report due during the day:
  • Final Wholesale Inventories ( 0.8% est.; prev. 0.8%) at 8:30 AM

Directional Bias Before Open:

Key Levels:

• Critical support levels for S&P 500 are 4225.87, 4215.66, and 4208.41
• Critical resistance levels for S&P 500 are 4236.92, 4239.86, and 4252.47
• Key levels for E-mini futures: break above 4233.00, the high of 8:00 AM and break below 4224.00, the low of 7:30 AM

Pre-Open

• On Tuesday at 4:00 PM, S&P futures (June 2021) closed at 4225.50 and the index closed at 4227.26 – a spread of about -1.75 points; futures closed at 4225.75 for the day; the fair value is -0.25
• Pre-NYSE session open, futures are mixed – at 8:00 AM, S&P 500 futures were up by +5.75; Dow down by -12, and NASDAQ up by +39.50

Markets Around The World

• Markets in the East closed mostly lower – Shanghai was up;
• European markets are mostly lower – Spain and Switzerland are higher
• Currencies (from two weeks ago):
  

  Up	Down
  Dollar index GBP/USD USD/JPY USD/CHF USD/CAD INR/USD	EUR/USD AUD/USD NZD/USD

• Commodities (from two weeks ago):
  • Energy futures are higher
  • Precious metals are lower
  • Industrial metals are mixed
  • Most soft commodities are mostly higher
• Treasuries (from two weeks ago)
  • 10-years yield closed at 1.528%, down -3.6 basis points from two weeks ago;
  • 30-years is at 2.209%, down -5.1 basis points;
  • 2-years yield is at 0.157%, up +0.8 basis points;
  • The 10-Year-&-2-Year spread is at 1.371, down from 1.415
• VIX
  • At 17.23 @ 7:45 AM; up from the last close; above 5-day SMA;
  • Recent high =  25.96 on May 19; low =  15.90 on May 28
  • Sentiment: Risk-Neutral

The trend and patterns on various time frames for S&P 500:

Previous Session

Major U.S. indices closed mostly higher on Tuesday, June 8 in mixed volume. Dow Jones Industrial Average closed lower. S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite traded in lower volume. The day’s price range was small and the move was mostly sideways.

From Briefing.com:

The S&P 500 closed relatively unchanged on Tuesday after flirting with all-time highs during the session. The Nasdaq Composite (+0.3%) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (-0.1%) closed mixed and little changed, while the Russell 2000 (+1.1%) and iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC 157.30, +1.75, +1.1) each gained 1.1%. […] Amazon lifted the S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector (+1.0%) to the top of the sector leaderboard, and the energy sector (+0.9%) followed closely behind as WTI crude futures ($70.08/bbl, +0.83, +1.2%) settled above $70 per barrel. The utilities (-0.9%), consumer staples (-0.9%), and health care (-0.4%) sectors underperformed. […] In the Treasury market, the 10-yr yield flirted with the low-end of its three-month consolidation range. The benchmark yield settled lower by four basis points at 1.53% after touching 1.51% following the release of the April Trade Balance report, which showed the U.S. trade deficit narrow to $68.9 billion (Briefing.com consensus -$68.6 billion) from $75.0 billion in March. The 2-yr yield decreased two basis points to 0.14%. The U.S. Dollar Index increased 0.2% to 90.11. […] The trade deficit in April narrowed to $68.9 billion (Briefing.com consensus -$68.6 billion) from a downwardly revised $75.0 billion (from -$74.4 billion) in March. April exports were $2.3 billion more than March exports while April imports were $3.8 billion less than March imports. […] Job openings increased to a record 9.286 million in April from a revised 8.288 million in March (from 8.123 million), according to the JOLTS report. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for May decreased to 99.6 from 99.8 in April. […] Russell 2000 +18.7% YTD Dow Jones Industrial Average +13.1% YTD S&P 500 +12.5% YTD Nasdaq Composite +8.0% YTD Overseas:  Europe: DAX -0.2%, FTSE +0.3%, CAC +0.1% Asia: Nikkei -0.2%, Hang Seng -0.1%, Shanghai -0.5% Commodities:  Crude Oil +0.93 @ 70.18 Nat Gas +0.06 @ 3.13 Gold -3.80 @ 1895.00 Silver -0.31 @ 27.71 Copper +0.03 @ 4.55