Directional Bias For The Day:

• S&P Futures are higher; near the lower bound of a Horizontal Channel between 4235.00 and 4212.00
• The odds are for a sideways to down day – watch for a break above 4225.50
• Key economic data report due during the day:
  • CPI ( 0.4% est.; prev. 0.8%) at 8:30 AM
  • Core CPI ( 0.5% est.; prev. 0.9%) at 8:30AM
  • Unemployment Claims ( 370K est.; prev. 385K) at 8:30 AM
  • 30-yr Bond Auction at 1:01 PM

Directional Bias Before Open:

Key Levels:

• Critical support levels for S&P 500 are 4215.66, 4206.05, and 4198.77
• Critical resistance levels for S&P 500 are 4225.87, 4233.64, and 4236.92
• Key levels for E-mini futures: break above 4225.50, the high of 9:30 PM on Wednesday and break below 4218.00, the low of 2:45 AM

Pre-Open

• On Wednesday at 4:00 PM, S&P futures (June 2021) closed at 4219.25 and the index closed at 4219.55 – a spread of about -0.25 points; futures closed at 4218.50 for the day; the fair value is +1.25
• Pre-NYSE session open, futures are mixed – at 8:00 AM, S&P 500 futures were up by +1.25; Dow up by +58, and NASDAQ down by -29.75

Markets Around The World

• Markets in the East closed mostly higher – Hong Kong was down;
• European markets are mostly lower – the UK is higher
• Currencies (from two weeks ago):
  

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

• Commodities (from two weeks ago):
  • Energy futures are higher
  • Precious metals are mixed
  • Industrial metals are mostly higher
  • Most soft commodities are mostly higher
• Treasuries (from two weeks ago)
  • 10-years yield closed at 1.489%, down -8.5 basis points from two weeks ago;
  • 30-years is at 2.169%, down -9.1 basis points;
  • 2-years yield is at 0.157%, up +0.5 basis points;
  • The 10-Year-&-2-Year spread is at 1.332, down from 1.422
• VIX
  • At 17.88 @ 6:45 AM; down 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 lower on Wednesday, June 9 in mostly lower volume. S&P 500 traded in higher volume. The day’s price range was small and the move was mostly sideways.

From Briefing.com:

The S&P 500 decreased 0.2% on Wednesday and was unsuccessful yet again at setting new all-time highs. The Nasdaq Composite (-0.1%) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (-0.4%) also closed slightly lower while the Russell 2000 (-0.7%) underperformed with a 0.7% decline. […] Losses were concentrated in the cyclical financials (-1.1%), industrials (-1.0%), materials (-0.8%), and energy (-0.6%) sectors on no specific macro drivers, outweighing the gains in the health care (+1.0%), utilities (+0.9%), real estate (+0.2%), and information technology (+0.1%) sectors. Notably, the 10-yr yield declined four basis points to 1.49%, settling near the bottom of its three-month consolidation range and signaling peak inflation expectations. The 2-yr yield remained unchanged at 0.14%. This curve-flattening activity acted as a headwind for the financials sector. […] The U.S. Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 90.16. WTI crude futures settled lower by 0.3% (-$0.18) to $69.90/bbl. […] Reviewing Wednesday’s economic data: Wholesale inventories increased 0.8% m/m in April (Briefing.com consensus 0.8%) following a downwardly revised 1.2% increase (from +1.3%) in March. The weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index decreased 3.1% following a 4.0% decline in the prior week. […] Russell 2000 +17.8% YTD Dow Jones Industrial Average +12.6% YTD S&P 500 +12.3% YTD Nasdaq Composite +7.9% YTD Overseas:  Europe: DAX -0.4%, FTSE -0.2%, CAC +0.2% Asia: Nikkei -0.4%, Hang Seng -0.1%, Shanghai +0.3% Commodities:  Crude Oil -0.40 @ 69.78 Nat Gas +0.01 @ 3.14 Gold -1.40 @ 1893.60 Silver +0.28 @ 27.99 Copper -0.02 @ 4.53