Friday 4 August 2017

Aug 4, 2017 - Market Update (NFPs 183k/Earnings 0.3% expected, US yields reaction to NFPs crucial for USD, USDJPY, Gold, EURUSD above 1.1876 but below 1.1900, Siemens to build wind power plant in Turkey, Goldman Sachs buying USD 10 bln of Aramco's credit facility, Tesla - market betting heavily on Model 3 success, Trump productivity stats)

Short recap

Asian slightly higher
Europe opening lower
Russian case moving with subpoenas issued for Trump’s son and his son-in-law
A new India-China stand off in Himalaya?
Toronto home sales down 40% y/y, 4th month of decline
Average purchase price is CAD 746k vs CAD 920k in April
Trump should speak on actions against China but the speech may be cancelled

Trump – productivity stats: In the office for 6 months, played golf for 40 days, Congress has passed 0 pieces of major legislation


Equities

Toyota and Mazda entering joint venture building of plant in US (USD 1.6 bln)
Siemens to build wind power plant in Turkey (USD 1 bln)
Seems like money talks and not NATO issues or politics in this case
Tesla up as market is betting on Model 3 success
Enbridge having some troubles with Line 3, rising costs
Goldman Sachs bought part of Aramco’s credit facility (USD 10 bln)
In a push to secure the role in Aramco’s upcoming IPO
Amazon.com spending big time in Hollywood (USD 4.5 bln)
But the profitability of such activities is still questionable
EU is targeting Visa over the fees it charges merchants for payments made  by non-EU customers within the EU
RBS moving the trading desk to Amsterdam from London

Bonds

10-yr Trys yield at 2.23% - down after BoE took no action and downgraded inflation and economic forecast
Reaction to NFPs will be very closely watched
10-yr Bund yield at 0.45%

DXY

According to BAML USD is not that weak as it may seem
Still 10% overvalued vs its long-term equilibrium
And 12% above its 20-year average in real effective terms
Only tax reform and better US data to help dollar
For the time being they respect market momentum until contrarian signs

Strong support zone (92.64 and 91.88) holding, weekly close crucial for further direction
Levels correspond with 1.2000 level in EURUSD
Combined with 200 WMA at 92.37 helped to support USD over the last 2 years

EURUSD

Trading steady going to NFPs
Moved above 1.1876 (low from June 2010) but stayed below 1.1900
Does it mean a correction coming?
Breaking the 1.1900 is important for bullish momentum to continue
Further resistance of 1.1200 more psychological of nature
Support 1.1768 (10 DMA), bullish bias to stay unless 10 DMA is broken
1.1786 (200 WMA) – a weekly close above?
Expiring options EUR 1 bln at 1.1850 strike

USDJPY

As weak ISM Non-manufacturing keeps pressure on USD
NFPs will be crucial for further USDJPY direction
But all will depend on US 10-yr yield reaction to payrolls anyway
Upside limited on weak USD, low US yields
Resistance 110.14 (76.4% Fibo), then 110.97 (61.8% Fibo)
Rising trendline acts as a support
Bids sitting at 109.85
Expiring options USD 1 bln at 109.45-50

Gold

Getting support from weak USD
But saw some position squaring yesterday going to NFPs today
Global demand is down 14% in H1 as the ETFs demand declined substantially
Resistance at 1274 (76.4% Fibo)
Support at 1261 (61.8% Fibo)
Ascending/descending trendline can also be of note
But US yields and USD direction crucial for further moves

Data/events

US NFPs183k exp vs 222k previously
Unemployment rate at 4.3% exp vs 4.4% previously
Average earnings at 0.3% exp vs 0.2% previously
Weekly jobless claims steadily falling down, thus pointing to tightening job market in US
More and more industries facing shortage of qualified labor

Aug 24-26 Jackson Hole
Draghi’s show up highly expected in the light of potential tapering
Any clues on EUR 60 bln monthly purchase being taken down o 40…or?
Sep 7 - ECB
Sep 19-20 FOMC


Should you have any questions feel free to contact me anytime.

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk



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