Axi | Aug 16, 2018 10:07
Originally published by AxiTrader h2 Market Summary (7.45 am Thursday August 16)/h2
Turkey couldn’t really get US stock traders attention this week – not properly anyway.
But the big fall in Tencent and the funk in Chinese and Asian stocks yesterday certainly seems to have captured their imagination in New York trade overnight. Or perhaps awakened a few nightmares about the slowdown in China.
That’s certainly the angle I see as dominating given the carnage on base metals markets and the absolute belting global miners and emerging market stocks have taken in the past day.
This morning copper is down 3.6% in HGc1 terms to $2.5795 (nicely done Peter L Brandt who called this week’s back) other base metals are lower too while BHP (AX:BHP) lost more than 5% in overnight trade, Glencore (LON:GLEN) lost about the same amount, Vale (NYSE:VALE) is down 4%, Anglo American (LON:AAL) is down a whopping 6% and Rio (AX:RIO) is off and almost benign 3.3% in London.
This is what I mentioned the other morning. A crisis isn’t a real crisis unless stocks go offered and get a little funky.
A so it is that while the Turkish lira stabilised after Qatar curried favour (it’s trying to find someone in the region to be friends with) with a $15 billion investment in Turkish banks and finance, and while the US dollar has stabilised against most majors – except the yen which is naturally stronger – the ructions in China stocks, the collapse in the yuan to 6.93/94, depending on whether its on or offshore, has weighed on global equity market sentiment.
That saw Europe fall across the board with the FTSE 100 off 1.5%, the DAX down 1.6%, and the CAC down 1.82%. In New York the S&P 500 has reversed the previous days gains with a 0.76% fall to 2,818. That’s just 23 points above the super important support zone which if broken will usher in some decent falls – got to break of course first. Anyway the fall in the S&P and stocks globally has also seen the VIX climb. The Dow is down 0.5% at 25,170 and the Nasdaq 100 is off 1.36% as the trouble at Tencent shines a light on tech valuations.
Here at home SPI traders have rained on the little party we had on the ASX yesterday when traders ignored the world and just hit the buy button. The ASX finished up 0.5% at 6,329 but with the SPI off 56 points overnight that’s looking like another false break above 6,300. We’ll see.
To forex and as I noted the yuan is under pressure with USD/CNH +0.6% at 6.9421. That rise has proved more telling than the Turkish lira’s rally. That’s because the supply of lira for traders to flog has been restricted by the central bank . That means USD/TRY is down 7% at 5.9ish but USD/ZAR is up 2.4% at 14.58, USD/MXN is up 1.7% at 19.19. Even the Korean won has lost half a percent with USD/KRW at 1133. The MSCI EM currency index continues to tumble.
The majors have been more circumspect. After plumbing new lows for this run yesterday afternoon we’ve seen stability and a few little gains against the US dollar. EUR/USD is at 1.1344, basically flat. GBP/USD is down 0.23% at 1.2694, while the Yen has gained as risk aversion has risen 0.4% to 110.65 in USD/JPY terms. The Aussie climbed off the mat at 72 cents and is at 0.7235 down 0.12%. The kiwi is at 0.6565 down 0.1% and the Canadian dollar has taken as belting as oil fell and has lost half a percent with USD/CAD up at 1.3129.
Speaking of oil, refineries are running at 98% but there was still a massive 6.8 million build in inventories the EIA reported last night. No guessing what that’s done to prices. WTI is down 3.28% at $64.84 and Brent is off 2.44% at $70.69. Copper was down as noted above as were other metals and gold is getting hosed again losing 1.5% to sit at $1175. Next support is $1164.
Bitcoin (BitfinexUSD) is holding support and is up 5% at $6372 while US 2's are trading 2.61% and 10's are trading 2.86%. Those rates are the balance of the market funk and some solid retail sales (+0.5% mom and +6.4% yoy) and industrial production numbers (+4.2% yoy) for July.
On the day the big one here in Australia is employment. The market is expecting another 15,000 new jobs after last month’s huge 50.900 increase. But I noticed the big lift in the Westpac unemployment expectations index in yesterday’s Consumer Sentiment survey. Do they know something? We’ll know at 11.30am this morning – standby.
Offshore we get Chinese FDI, UK retail sales, EU trade, and then housing data, jobless claims and the Philly Fed index in the US.
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Have a great day's trading.
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