Morning Brief
Headline News:
The S&P 500 futures are up 22 points and are trading 0.4% above fair value. The Nasdaq 100 futures are up 55 points and are trading 0.2% above fair value. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are up 197 points and are trading 0.7% above fair value.
A positive bias has taken root in the futures market, aided by reports that China has shortened its quarantine period for inbound visitors and that Shanghai and Beijing reported zero COVID cases for the first time since February.
Another supporting factor includes several banks, Goldman Sachs (GS) among them, announcing dividend increases and/or share buyback programs following the Fed’s stress test. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup (C) left their dividend plans unchanged.
The reopening optimism surrounding China has helped underpin oil prices ($111.27, +1.70, +1.5%), which have also been bolstered by a Reuters report indicating Saudi Arabia and the UAE have limited spare capacity to boost output.
Rising oil prices aren’t helping to assuage headline inflation pressures any more than Nike’s (NKE) inventory surge and fiscal Q1 revenue warning, and ECB President Lagarde suggesting the ECB could move faster on rate hikes if needed, are helping to assuage concerns about a broader earnings slowdown. Nonetheless, market participants seem to be favoring a quarter-end rebound bias based on rebalancing activity following a rough second-quarter performance for the stock market.
(Michael Gibbs, Director of Equity Portfolio & Technical Strategy)
Markets:
The S&P 500 closed lower at 3900.11 and below support at 3900.86 on below-average volume. RSI has still not moved above the 50 level, which also shows a lack of follow-through. In our opinion, the lack of follow-through from Friday’s trading was disappointing but not the end of the uptrend. If the index can form a base at these levels, we feel the uptrend can continue and possibly test the 50-day moving average at 4054.62 soon.
We are currently Intermediate-term bearish and short-term bearish.
John N. Lilly III CPFA
Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor℠
Accredited Asset Management Specialist℠
Portfolio Manager, RJFS
Partner, DJWMG
Windsor Wealth Planners & Strategist
Futures trading is speculative, leveraged, and involves substantial risks. Investing always involves risk, including the loss of principal, and futures trading could present additional risk based on underlying commodities investments.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI), developed by J. Welles Wilder, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and changes of price movements.
The advance/decline line (A/D) is a technical indicator that plots the difference between the number of advancing and declining stocks on a daily basis. The indicator is cumulative, with a positive number being added to the prior number, or if the number is negative it is subtracted from the prior number.
The A/D line is used to show market sentiment, as it tells traders whether there are more stocks rising or falling. It is used to confirm price trends in major indexes, and can also warn of reversals when divergence occurs.
The percentage of stocks trading above a specific moving average is a breadth indicator that measures internal strength or weakness in the underlying index. The 50-day moving average is used for short-to-medium-term timeframes, while the 150-day and 200-day moving averages are used for medium-to-long-term timeframes. Signals can be derived from overbought/oversold levels, crosses above/below 50% and bullish/bearish divergences.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), commonly known as “The Dow” is an index representing 30 stock of companies maintained and reviewed by the editors of the Wall Street Journal. The Russell 2000 Index measures the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index, which represent approximately 8% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000 Index.
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