Dec 5, 2017 - Weekly Commodity: OPEC delivered extension now focus turning to US production & inventories

Commodities had a bad week caused primarily by correction in metals which couldn’t be compensated by slight bounce in Energy and Agriculture. The OPEC delivered extension of the production cut as the market expected, however as this was already priced in there wasn’t enough buying power to take prices to new highs.

As the huge rally from the end of summer was mainly based on the expectations that in Vienna the OPEC and the non-members lead by Russia will agree on the extension of the production cap, the news had limited impact last Thursday. The Friday move was likely just another reduction of short positions where some bears gave up. The biggest worries are now around the growing US oil production. While shale oil companies more and more seem to commit to growing shareholder value rather than market share, the US oil rig count and the US production is still on the rise. This can mean a hurdle in the efforts of OPEC and Russia to bring the market back to balance.

US Oil production – Source EIA and Land of Trading

The speculative positioning is extremely skewed toward the long side (763,786 longs vs 153,953 shorts) and such a concentration always brings the risk of a volatile squeeze. The effect of the extension of the supply cut on the inventories could be delayed according to Saudi oil minister by a seasonal decline in demand during winter. US oil rig counts published by Baker Hughes however keep growing currently at the highest levels since September.

CFTC COT Report NonCommercials positioning WTI

Technically we are in a strong resistance zone on WTI and after the OPEC deal was priced in well ahead, the market doesn’t seem to be strong enough to break much higher anytime soon. I expect the prices under the pressure of incoming bearish to drop back to previous supports before they would take off again.

WTI Weekly Chart

Good Luck and remember to watch your risk and be consistent

Mr. Tech Man

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. 

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Nov 28, 2017 – Weekly Commodity: Oil bulls supported by Canadian supply disruption, Thursday OPEC meeting in focus

The last week was rather quiet due to Thanksgiving but we had some interesting moves in the commodity space due to unexpected events. First of all the tired oil bulls got some support from the Canadian supply disruption while the grain market was kept low due to huge ending stocks and good weather forecast from South America. We saw also a revival of the industrial metals on South American mine strikes and drop in LME stocks.

After the news that TransCanada will reduce supply by 85% for November due to pipeline leak the bulls tried another run and pushed WTI to new highs while reaction on Brent was subdued. The Spread between the two dropped below 5$ for a day but bounced back quickly. The market is watching OPEC meeting in Vienna this week and the final agreement about the extension of the production cut. The key player is Russia this time as showed reluctance to extend the deal however market priced in 6-9 month extension. If the cartel and Russia fails to agree on this at least, oil may see a significant drop, while the upside potential is limited by already large speculative long and potential shale hedging activity.

Good Luck and remember to watch your risk and be consistent.

Mr. Tech Man

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016.

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Nov 21, 2017 – Weekly Commodity: Crude trader’s focus back on fundamentals, oversupply

After a week of increased uncertainty following the anticorruption crackdown in Saudi Arabia, the focus is re-shifting toward fundamentals again. A Tuesday sell-off was triggered by the IEA monthly report where the agency reduced its’ global demand forecast by around 100k bpd in contrary to the last OPEC Monthly report from a day earlier. The bears got some additional support in the evening from the increased oil inventories reported by API. The next day the official government data confirmed the oil stock accumulation but didn’t cause additional selling as the main damage was done on Tuesday.

Although the crude jumped up 2.6% on the last trading day of the week, further rally will need some geopolitical support as the fundamentals seems to be improving. The US oil production hit new multi month record at 9.65 mil bpd and it seems the crude output is on its way to reach 10 mil bpd in a few months time. Additional pressure came from Russia with its wavering support for the extension of the OPEC production curb deal. The cartel has a schedule meeting on 30th November where the member states should decide whether to extend the agreement beyond March 2018.

The next important oil related reports are:

Tuesday – EIA Monthly Energy Review and API weekly oil stocks and refinery operations

Wednesday – EIA weekly petroleum status report

For the technical view please check the weekly WTI chart:

Good Luck and remember to watch your risk and be consistent

Mr. Tech Man

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. 

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July 28, 2017 - Market Update (Bad day for Trump - no Russia sanctions, no VAT, no BAT, no Obamacare repeal, EURUSD hitting strong multiyear resistance zone, USDJPY played by expiring options today, US GDP to surprise, NASDAQ down on rotation out of Techs, Apollo rising USD 25 bln)

Short recap

Asia lower on risk off

Europe opening

Mnuchin to support steps not tough talk against FX manipulators

As it hasn’t been working for years

Senate rejected new sanctions against Russia

Not even watered down Obamacare repeal bill can pass through Senate

Another huge blow to Trump after no VAT and BAT implementation

Those two got rejected due to the need to overhaul the whole tax system in US

Equities

NASDAQ down on rotation out of Techs

Amazon hit by cost jumping

UBS cautious despite good wealth management business

Credit Suisse – profit jumps

Apollo’s new private equity fund raised USD 25 bln for investments in North America and Western Europe

Airbus not happy with delays caused by Pratt & Whitney production

Cameco settled with IRS at a fraction of original claim but heavy fight with CRA is waiting

Any correction in stocks to be triggered by upcoming tapering? The stock markets were moving higher hand in hand with QEs all around the world. What’s next?

Few facts:

Had a nice bull market rolling over the years

Market multiples above historical levels

Equities vs fixed income yield differentials are low

M&A activity hitting high

Upcoming tapering

Extremely low volatility will not last

Trump administration not able to deliver

Earnings

Earnings season so far good on weaker USD

Merck, AbbVie – to be watched as competition is rising

Exxon Mobil, Chevron – market expecting a profit print

Bombardier – cash flow, CSeries deliveries and potential joint venture with Siemens to be questioned

Baker Hughes, Barclays, Goodyear, American Airlines

Bonds

10-yr Trys yield at 2.30% up from 2.28% yesterday

10-yr Bund yield at 0.53% down from 0.55% yesterday

EURUSD

Down from yesterday on USD buying

Underlying tone stays pro-EUR, US GDP in watch

Support of note 1.1623/21 (10 DMA/23.6% Fibo), 1.1615, then 1.1580

100/200 HMA may also see some buying

Resistance at 1.1750, 1. 1776 (high), 1.1794 (200 WMA), 1.1810 (38.2% Fibo)

USDJPY

Sitting on 111.00 with likely dip demand around 110.80

Option expiries at 110.80 (USD 1.2 bln), 111.00 (USD 1.4 bln)

Likely to stay within the sight of expiry levels unless US GDP moves the market heavily

Lots of bids at 110.00

Gold

Durable goods orders and higher USD put pressure on gold yesterday

Traders see Fed to announce taper in Sep

Resistance at 1261 (61.8% Fibo)

Support at 125 (50.0% Fibo)

10/50/100 DMAs converge to 1250 level

Data/events

US Q2 GDP +2.6% exp vs 1.4% previous

Some banks revised up expectations on the back of yesterday's much better Durable goods orders

Fed’s Kashkari (1720 GMT)

Aug 24-26 Jackson Hole

Sep 7 - ECB

Sep 19-20 FOMC 

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

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. Contact: landoftradingATgmailDOTcom

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July 12, 2017 - Market Update (All about Yellen today, Merkel flying EUR high, Siemens chasing their turbines, Chinese banks another opportunity, Trump and Russia (but Junior this time), 10-yr Bund yields jumping above 0.60% mark)

Short recap

Europe opening higher

Trump Jr – Russia blow here but markets focus on Yellen

Trump administration constantly distracted, not focussing on proper work

Gary Cohn Trump’s candidate to replace Yellen

Fed’s Mester likes taper sooner rather than later

Merkel putting pressure on ECB to raise rates

JPM’s Dimon – taper can caught people by surprise

Chinese media speculations – PBOC should widen the 2% CNY daily trading band

Funds kept selling USDCNH overnight

Quarels as a Trump Fed nominee getting first oppose comments

Due to his ties to Wall Street and possibility that oversight of huge banks would be softer

Moody’s – Lack of clarity in Brexit making question marks around UK’s credibility

Equities

BlackRock - Investors need to take more risk  link

US asset managers underallocated EM stocks 

Total to invest USD 3.5 bln in Qatar offshore oil

Siemens chasing their turbines in Crimea even legally

Chinese banks underperformed their global peers but offer lower valuations and decent yields

Regulators were out saying the risk is in control

Snap hit by downgrade from Morgan Stanley (underwriter) on slower ad development

Instagram is biting in to Snap’s largest user base among young

Bonds

BoJ increased bond purchases in 3-5 yr space

10-yr Trys yield at 2.35% but 5-yr/10-yr may experience some correction after recent move higher (support around 2.30%)

10-yr Bund yield at 0.61% - sharp jump from around 0.55% after yesterday’s comments from Merkel

EURUSD

Merkel, Trump Jr. – Russia thing, dovish Fed comments behind the move

1.1450 broken, on the way to 1.1580 as short term longs were open

Likely looking at 1.1615 as long as 10 DMA (1.1407) not clearly broken on dips

Next the 1.1714 and 1.1750 may come

Bear in mind that any rally above 1.1600 is way overstretched and likely not lasting

All about Yellen today, watch especially her remarks on inflation

But market is very very complacent about Fed moving…

USDJPY

Resistance at 114.36 high

Stops at 113.50 hit but dip demand helped

Support at 113.30 (10 DMA), 113.05 (76.4% Fibo), descending trendline

Dips below 113.00 may be a good point to renter longs

But 112.00 level can serve as a stop level

Expiring options USD 1.3 bln between 113/114.00

Market is very long USDJPY but short gamma

And 50/100/200 DMA at 111.89/78/66 very close

Again all about Yellen today

Gold

Support at 1214 low held, no more technical selling through

Resistance at 1231 (200 DMA), 1234 (76.4% Fibo) and rising trendline

If broken along with 16.20 in Silver we can see more short covering

But Yellen today again…

Data/Events

Yellen testifying (1400 GMT) before Congress Committees today/tomorrow (prepared text to be released at 1230 GMT)

Likely to confirm the continuation of normalization

Do financial conditions continue to ease

Job market and inflation

Balance sheet reduction – suspension of reinvestment policy coming announcement in Sep ?

Another rate hike in Dec ? Currently priced at 49%

ECB’s Linde 

ECB’ Dalhau, Dombret

Fed Beige Book (1800 GMT)

Fed’s George (1815 GMT)

July 20 – ECB meeting

July 26 – FOMC meeting

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

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. Contact: landoftradingATgmailDOTcom

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May 26, 2017 - Market Update

Short recap

Asia down as OPEC disappointed the market by not delivering what traders hoped for

Cut extended for 9 and not 12 months, expected deeper cuts

Oil was down 5% and still heavy today

Europe opening lower

Risk off continues on OPEC, lower yields and dovish Bullard (inflation worrisome, Fed aggressive)

Looking forward to balance sheet reduction in H2

Trump’s son-in-law who is a part of his senior advisers team is under FBI investigation over Russia

USD 20 bln Blackstone-Saudis deal underlies how important Blackstone is for Kushner’s family

As they borrowed from the company few hundred mlns and company worked on their NY mansion

Moody’s - China not able to curb the debt, risk of another downgrade

China to change Yuan fixing formula to adjust for lower volatility

China not to pursue a competitive devaluation

UK consumers hit by rising prices

UK’s May falling in polls, GBP down

Equities

Full “bail in” talk of regional banks Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca

Denied by officials

GM facing a lawsuit over emissions

Ford behind GM in new models

Canadian banks don’t see the threat to their business from fallout of Home Capital

Bonds

10-yr Trys yield at 2.25%%

10-yr Bund yield at 0.36%

Fed funds rate vs EURUSD  link

EURUSD

Offers around 1.1250-60

Still lots of bid below

1.1314 (76.4% Fibo)

1.1128 (61.8% Fibo)

USDJPY

Bids towards 111.50, more towards 111.00 – range with heavy option expiries as well

Offers may be present going to 112.00

50 DMA at 111.25 and 50% Fibo at 111.24 acting as support

Iron ore

Inventories highest since 2004 (136 mln tonnes)

Important support 450

Data,

G7 meeting (growth, employment, security)

ECB’s Coeure (2000 GMT)

May 31 – former FBI director James Comey to testify before Senate

June 8 – ECB meeting

June 8 – UK elections

June 11/18 – French Legislative (Parliamentary) elections (a big question mark for Macron to gain majority)

June 13/14 – FOMC meeting

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

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. Contact: landoftradingATgmailDOTcom

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May 25, 2017 - Story of the week: OPEC meeting – few thoughts and what to focus on today

There is a lot in stake for OPEC during today’s meeting in Vienna - Austria, for all participants. Some of the OPEC members have more to lose than others but at the end everybody needs to keep oil prices higher, the main reason is that their government’s budgets are highly relying on oil income. The equation is very simple: same or little higher production – much lower prices – much less income. But there are some other factors due to particular members may want higher oil prices than others.

Crude exports

At the end of last year OPEC countries and Russia agreed to cut their oil production by 1.8 mil bpd. However the effect of the production cut started to fade after few months as US Shale oil producers managed to lock in prices higher than their costs and since then they are opening one oil field after another bringing the US oil production again back close to 10mil bpd. The other reason the effect of the cut was limited was, that while the OPEC countries more or less complied with the production cut agreement there was no decision that they will also decrease exporting. Hence these countries continued to sell the approximately same amount of oil by emptying their stocks which obviously meant there was no real change in supply. However with OPEC oil stocks lower and summer demand picking up, the extension may have a more balancing effect this time. Therefore the many will search in the agreement today for the word “export”…

US shale oil

The rising US oil production is definitely against bringing the balance back to the market. While before the slump in oil prices the break even for many of the shale oil companies was around $80 per barrel, the companies managed to increase efficiency and the costs were brought down below $55 on average almost in any shale oil basin. The steadily growing number of active oil rigs is confirming the fact that shale oil producers managed to hedge their future production well above their costs and this will mean that for OPEC the balance on the oil market will be harder to achieve.

The US shale oil industry is far from what it’s in the OPEC countries or Russia where the state owned oil companies dominate. In the US the industry is based on free competition with a lot of independent companies. A lot of them bankrupted in the last 2 years but the production capacities was bought by the rest of the industry so there was a much smaller decline than initially anticipated by OPEC.

Aramco IPO

Saudi Arabia’s planning to sell around 5% of shares of the countries giant oil and gas producers Aramco. This is one of the main reasons Saudi Arabia is pushing for higher oil prices as the valuation of the company mainly depends on the dollar value of the Saudi oil reserves. As the country is changing the taxation regime of Aramco while the production decision will stay purely in government hands to make it look better, this also shows how needed a good valuation of the company.

These are just few factors affecting the decision today but definitely the market is expecting a move from OPEC. The positive thing is that lately Iraq also agreed to join the extension of the cut after the Saudi oil minister visited his counterparty. However the big question everybody is asking now is if the extension will be enough to keep the traders bullish. Many are speculating that OPEC may also increase the amount of the production cut. This was for now not mentioned by the participants. The second question after regarding the deal will be the member’s compliance with the agreement in the coming months that was the key question in 1H of 2017.

Summary what to watch

1.      If extending the production cut by how much (6-9 months expected)

2.      If anything about exports in the wording of the agreement

3.      If any increase of production

4.      If Russia will join the extension (crucial)

OPEC/Non-OPEC meeting

0800 GMT - OPEC meeting 

1300 GMT - OPEC/Non-OPEC meeting 

1500 GMT - Joint press conference 

Full schedule  link 

Good Luck and remember to watch your risk and be consistent

Mr Tech Man

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. 

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May 11, 2017 - Market Update

Short recap

Asia up on stock markets gains led by rising energy sector

Trump falling deeper into the election scandal orchestrated by Russians

An impeachment coming at certain point...?

Or at the best the tax and biz reforms being delayed…

Six Canadian banks downgraded on ongoing concerns about expanding levels of private-sector debt across the country

And not just situation in real estate

CAD caught in between rising commodity prices, bubbling housing and appreciating USD

Market very negative sentiment on CAD

Rosengren played hawkish yesterday with gradual reduction of balance sheet and 4 hikes this year

Draghi just repeated himself, didn’t please German hawks

As EZ economy is solid but it is too early to pull out the QE (EUR 2.3 bln)

Hinted some changes though

Equities

Standard Life to merge with Aberdeen Asset Management, cutting 10% of jobs

NYSE (after LSE) trying to charm Saudis to gain the Aramco IPO

Tesla open for solar roofs orders

Mylan not comfortable with FDA

AXA to float its shares of its US life insurance and asset management business in US

Looking to free some capital and refocus

Earnings

UniCredit doing better as restructuring pays off

Following the path of CH banks and dropping complex activities, simplifying and focusing on the core

NVDIA benefiting from data centers and automotive

Enbridge (CA) expected lower profit due to rising costs

Others to report: Macy’s, Kohl’s, Nordstrom, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Aegon, Wells-Fargo, Dow Chemical, Bombardier (CA), Magna (CA)

Bonds

2-yr Trys yield at 1.35% marching towards 1.40% level

10-yr Trys yield at 2.40% - 10-yr auction disappointed yesterday

10-yr Bund yield at 0.44%

EURUSD – pivotal level 1.0850

Then 1.0825/30 area (21 & 200 DMA) – if broken, likely to see more downside

As longs may get nervous

Some selling interest towards 1.0900 area

USDJPY – some offers above 114.40, more towards 115.00

Next 115.50 and 118.60 highs may be in focus

Support around 114.00

Yields and risk on mood prevailing

Commodities

Oil supported by the fall in US inventories, slowing production/imports that resulted in heavy short covering

Goldman Sachs, IEA – accelerating decline in inventories, rising demand to be higher than supply

Support USD 47 (WTI) and USD 50 (Brent)

Gold on the way to 1200

But supported by North Korea and unpredictable Trump

Upcoming

Fed's Dudley speaking at 1025 GMT

ECB’s Draghi, Coeure at G7 Fin Mins at 1535 GMT

ECB’s Praet speaking at 1630 GMT

G7 Fin Mins & Central bankers meeting in Italy for three days

To discuss: trade, financial institutions coordination, fighting inequality and tax crime

Mnuchin to inform about changes in US taxes, Dodd-Frank, infrastructure investments and ease of biz regulations

Fri – US CPI and Fed's Evans speaking

May 25 – OPEC/Non-OPEC meeting

June 8 – ECB meeting

June 8 – UK elections

June 11/18 – French Legislative (Parliamentary) elections (a big question mark for Macron to gain majority)

June 13/14 – FOMC meeting – market pricing rate hike above 90%

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

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. Contact: landoftradingATgmailDOTcom

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Apr 12, 2017 - Market Update

Short recap

Asia on a safe side on geopolitical risks, JPY, gold and VIX up

Europe opening higher

Kuroda – BoJ easing for price stability and not to target FX levels

Will keep going with easing to reach 2% inflation

BoJ reduced 3-5 yr bond purchases

Xi sent a message to Trump to solve the situation in North Korea in a peaceful way

Japan joining US in North Korea muscle flexing on the sea

US Sec Tillerson in Russia today

Merkel against EZ mutual debt to distinguish herself in election year from Schulz

Greece and Portugal would need to address debt sustainability anyway

China PPI at 7.6% but serious real estate problem

Economy way overleveraged (80% of GDP)

Will be negatively impacted by deleveraging that would need to take place at certain point in time anyway

VIX was up to 15.88% despite S&P 500 just slightly lower

BHP Billiton rejected any attempts to change the corporate strategy from Elliott Management side

Siemens to partner with Bombardier in train production to better position themselves against Chinese CRRC Corp

United shares hit by passenger issue due to overbooking

It seems like a very common practise by airliners to overbook and then offer you an incentive or compensation for not flying or flying another day

Dialog Semiconductor may lose deal with Apple

10-yr Trys yield at 2.30% (dropped to 2.28%) - should be temporary on geopolitical risks (Trump acting as a policeman)

While June rate hike is priced at around 60%

If the rate drops further below the 2.30% level it would express the level of doubt of bond market about Fed raising rates sooner than later

10-yr Bund yield at 0.20%

GE-FR spread rising to 74.50 bps again on the back of leftist Menchelon gaining momentum

His surprise win may be a risk event reflected in USDJPY decline

FX options

EURUSD 1m RR dropped sharply, trading below Brexit vote levels

Traders favoring put options (getting more expensive than calls)

Market was buying strikes around French elections heavily yesterday

In a protection move

1w vols dropping sharply yesterday

EURUSD spot flat

EURUSD 1m vols spiking to 12.47 from below 9.00 level

12.50 vols is equal to a spot move of 76 pips a day

EURUSD 1m 25 RR heavily favoring puts

But…

EURUSD 1w vols trading at historically low levels and keep moving lower

What may be due to implied vols underperforming

And market using 1w strikes to finance strikes covering French elections (Apr 23/May 7)

USDJPY – with ease through 110.00

Sitting at descending trendline

But close to 200 DMA at 108.70

Are the bears strong enough to take it below 200 DMA?

Similar picture as for EURUSD

1m vols spiking to 12.48 from above 11.00

1m 25 RR dropping sharply following spot and favoring puts

Liquidity to disappear quickly as we get closer to Easter holidays

Shouldn’t experience any change unless we really have a huge event this week

Than we can see sharp moves either way

6m vols trading very cheap compared to risk events as French & German elections, North Korea, Syria are

Data

UK: Labour Market Report to stay resilient

Kaplan (Fed) speaking at 1400 GMT

Apr 23 – French presidential elections

Apr 29 – EU Summit to sign off the Brexit negotiations guidelines – until then we won’t have clearer EU position on Brexit

May 7 – French presidential elections 2^nd round

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

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. Contact: landoftradingATgmailDOTcom

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Apr 4, 2017 - Market Update

Short recap

Asia on a safe side

Europe opening higher

Risk off ongoing (Russia, FR elections (GE-FR spread widens to 67 bps) – USDJPY declined and we see preference for liquidity

EURUSD not picking up as peripheral spreads are widening due to ECB lowering bond purchases

Fed’s Dudley not comfortable with student debt that may have a negative effect on spending and ability to buy houses

S&P 500 support at 2142 (50 DMA) and 2350 level

Hyundai and Kia decreased the production in their China based factories on the back of rising competition from local automakers and tensions between both countries

Imagination Technologies down 70% yesterday as Apple decided to end the cooperation

Danone buying US based WhiteWave Foods that produces organic food

Mylan facing a new class action lawsuit

Canadian SNC-Lavalin interested in UK based WS Atkins (GBP 2.1 bln)

Linde considering to use all means to get the merger with Praxair through

Akzo Nobel still not satisfied with PPGproposal

10-yr Trys yield at 2.33%

10-yr Bunds yield at 0.28%

2-yr Bunds yield back to -0.80%

Gold higher as USD gets a bit weaker, drop in stocks and interest in bonds

Market positioning ahead of Trump-Xi meeting and after Russia bomb attack

Data

EU to make a formal statement on Brexit about what they want to achieve

ECB Draghi speaking

Daniel Tarullo (Tue at 2030 GMT)

EZ: Retail sales expecting to head slightly higher

US: Factory orders to rebound after small dip in March

Wed:

FOMC Minutes

Thu:

ECB Draghi, Weidmann and Praet speaking (especially Draghi’s remarks on inflation will be closely watched)

ECB Minutes

Trump to meet Chinese president

Trump to use trade to wage on North Korea

Fri:

US NFPs

Fed Speakers this week:

Fred Williams, James Bullard

Apr 23 – French presidential elections

Apr 29 – EU Summit to sign off the Brexit negotiations guidelines – until then we won’t have clearer EU position on Brexit

May 7 – French presidential elections 2^nd round

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

Good luck Champs!

Mr Hawk

DISCLAIMER: This material was created for informational purposes only and represents the Land of Trading team’s view of the past and current economic and capital market environment. It is not an investment advice and should not be viewed that way at all, and the creators of this material cannot be held liable for any potential losses resulting from trading, where despite this disclaimer someone would consider this material as an investment advice. All rights reserved ©2016. Contact: landoftradingATgmailDOTcom

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