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Todays Economic Calendar (Eastern Time Zone):
Today’s Economic Calendar is light (unless something happens in the major headlines regarding Washington or Brazil)
9:15 AM – St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard Speaks
1:00 PM – Baker Hughes N. American Oil and Natural Gas Rigs Count
1:40 – San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams Speaks
Economic News Highlights:
- Brazil Plumets – concerns of corruption by President Michel Temer of Brazil sent the Sao Paulo Exchange into a selling frenzy. After a drop in 10% trading was stopped as circuit breakers were tripped.
- IShares MSCI Brazil Capped (EWZ), the biggest U.S.-traded Brazil ETF, plummeted as much as 23% before ending the day with a 16% loss.
- BRICS ETF’s also fall 2% – IShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) fell and Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets (VWO) both fell since Brazil represents the “B” in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China).
- AutoDesk (ADSK) – was 10% higher in premarket trade, it received upgrades from RBC Capital and Bank of America following a solid first-quarter performance reported late Thursday.
- Applied Materials (AMAT) – was almost 3% higher after reporting an across-the-board sales and earnings beat in its earnings report.
- Salesforce.com (CRM) – was up 2% before the open after a 16% earnings increase and a 25% revenue gain in its first quarter, both above analyst expectations.
- Home Depot (HD) reported first-quarter earnings that beat estimates, making it one of the few retailers that isn’t cracking under the weight of e-commerce
- Trump travels overseas – to visit Saudi Arabia and Israel as Iranians vote in the presidential elecions.
- Global Markets – Asian and world stocks held their ground, US futures rebounded overnight.
- The Dollar Continues to Fall – currently at 97.23. The yen gained on some safe-haven buying as Brazilian and US political scandals worry many.
- Crude Oil over $50 – investors are looking to Baker Hughes U.S. rig count data later today.
Major Index Charts and Observations:
Last night futures trading formed an inverse head and shoulders (on a 15 minute intraday shart) pattern and started to rebound since falling hard on Wednesday.
- S&P 500 – Currently at 2,368
- Dow 30 – Currently at 20,663
- Nasdaq – Currently at 5,651
- S&P VIX – Curently 13.20
- Russel 2000 – Currently at 1360 (slightly up from yesterday’s opening, but still mostly neutral)
Commodities:
- Silver currently 16.851 – slightly bullish overnight (but Silver has been bearish for a while)
- Gold currently 1254 – neutral but with a slight rise this morning
- Natural Gas currently 3.227 – rising this morning, but has been up and down within a channel all week
- Crude Oil currently $49.94– neutral to slightly bullish, traded over $50 briefly yesterday, awaiting today’s Rig Count
Market Sectors:
Yesterday most of the sectors were positive; the most bullish sectors were Technology (XLK) and Consumer Discretionary (XLY).
Currencies:
- The USD is currently at 97.20 – down, down down…
- Bitcoin has resurged to $1,952 from yesterdays $1,815
- Ethereum – currently at $113.01 – way up from yesterday’s $91.54; to learn more listen to Tackle Trading Podcast #216
Trading Thoughts
World attention (or worries) has shifted slightly from Trump to Brazil and the overnight markets are hinting at a neutral to slightly bullish open.
Market Bias – I give the market a +1 to 0 using the following scale.
More Bearish Neutral More Bullish
-3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3
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Hector Duenas Jr. started his trading journey during the height of the tech bubble in 2001 as part of the 90% that looses money in the stock market.
A Rich Dad conference in 2016 changed his life and now he writes the Morning Market Reports for Tackle Trading.
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2 Replies to “Morning Market Report Friday 5/19”
Thanks, Hector!
Thanks Hector .. great report .. really helpful & informative
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