Directional Bias For The Day:
S&P Futures are higher;- The odds are for an up day with elevated volatility and with a good chance of a sideways to down move from the pre-open levels around 4325.00 levels — watch for a break below 4315.50 and a break above 4338.50 for clarity
- No key economic data report due during the day:
Directional Bias Before Open:
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Key Levels:
- Critical support levels for S&P 500 are 4320.60, 4292.61, and 4262.05
- Critical resistance levels for S&P 500 are 4336.51, 4355.41, and 4375.09
- Key levels for E-mini futures: break above 4338.50, the high of 4:15 AM and break below 4315.50, the low of 7:45 AM
Pre-Open
- On Tuesday at 4:00 PM, S&P futures (September 2021) closed at 4314.75 and the index closed at 4323.06 – a spread of about -8.75 points; futures closed at 4315.50 for the day; the fair value is -0.75
- Pre-NYSE session open, futures are mixed – at 8:30 AM, S&P 500 futures were up by +11.25; Dow up by +138, and NASDAQ down by -19.75
Markets Around The World
- Markets in the East closed mostly higher – Hong Kong and Seoul closed lower; Mumbai was closed for trading
- European markets are higher
- Currencies (from two weeks ago):
Up Down - Dollar index
- USD/CAD
- EUR/USD
- GBP/USD
- USD/JPY
- USD/CHF
- AUD/USD
- NZD/USD
- INR/USD
- Commodities (from two weeks ago):
- Energy futures are mixed
- Precious metals are mixed
- Industrial metals are mostly lower
- Most soft commodities are mixed
- Treasuries (from two weeks ago)
- 10-years yield closed at 1.238%, down -13.2 basis points from two weeks ago;
- 30-years is at 1.902%, down -10.2 basis points;
- 2-years yield is at 0.18%, down -2.2 basis points;
- The 10-Year-&-2-Year spread is at 1.040, down from 1.150
- VIX
- At 18.89 @ 7:00 AM; down from the last close; above 5-day SMA;
- Recent high = 25.09 on July 19; low = 15.94 on July 13
- Sentiment: Risk-On
The trend and patterns on various time frames for S&P 500:
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Previous Session
From Briefing.com:
The major indices rallied by at least 1.5% on this “turnaround Tuesday,” as investors bought Monday’s dip and sold longer-dated Treasuries. The Russell 2000 was the outright winner with a 3.0% gain, followed by the Dow Jones Industrial Average (+1.6%), Nasdaq Composite (+1.6%), and S&P 500 (+1.5%). […] The rebound gains were distributed across ten of the 11 S&P 500 sectors, including industrials (+2.7%) and financials (+2.4%) with gains over 2.0%. Advancing issues outpaced declining issues by a 5:1 margin at the NYSE. The consumer staples sector (-0.1%) bucked the positive trend.
[…]The 10-yr yield settled three basis points higher at 1.21% after dipping below 1.14% immediately following mixed housing starts and building permits data for June. Housing starts were better than expected while permits, which are a leading indicator, declined 5.1% m/m to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.598 million (Briefing.com consensus 1.700 million).
The 2-yr yield decreased two basis points to 0.19% while the 30-yr yield rose five basis points to 1.87%. The U.S. Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 92.95. WTI crude futures rose 1.4%, or $0.90, to $67.32/bbl. The CBOE Volatility Index (19.73, -2.77, -12.3%) slipped below 20.00.
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- Total housing starts rose 6.3% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.643 million (Briefing.com consensus 1.600 million). Building permits declined 5.1% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.598 million (Briefing.com consensus 1.700 million).
- S&P 500 +15.1% YTD
- Dow Jones Industrial Average +12.8% YTD
- Nasdaq Composite +12.5% YTD
- Russell 2000 +11.1% YTD
Overseas:
- Europe: DAX +0.6%, FTSE +0.5%, CAC +0.8%
- Asia: Nikkei -1.0%, Hang Seng -0.9%, Shanghai -0.1%
Commodities:
- Crude Oil +1.19 @ 67.41
- Nat Gas +0.09 @ 3.87
- Gold +0.20 @ 1809.40
- Silver -0.16 @ 24.99
- Copper +0.08 @ 4.27