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The Overnight Report: Bull Market Resumes?

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed up 217 points (back above 17,000) or 1.3% while the S&P rose 1.5% to 2023 and the Nasdaq jumped 1.8%.

Flash Boys

Yesterday’s intraday chart of the ASX200 is an interesting one. At 11am the index was up only by single figure points and at 12.30pm it was up by only single figure points. But at 11.38am it was up 40 points. What happened in between? The ABS released the September jobs numbers.

Ahead of the release, the ASX200 suddenly took off, then retreated, then took off again. At 11.30am the ABS announced a 0.1ppt fall in the unemployment rate to 6.2% and the index shot up to its high. But the drop in unemployment was due to a rise in participation, and September saw a net reduction in jobs when economists had expected an increase. Down we came in a hurry, back to where it all began.

At that point the call went out: If you flash boys are finished having your fun then perhaps you’ll now let the grown-ups take over the session.

The index then rallied in a steady trend to a close of up 32 points. The high frequency traders were left to mull over their algorithms.

In Wednesday’s session we saw the release of weak Chinese inflation data, which yet again confirmed fears of a slowing China. Energy – the market’s current plaything – was carted. On Wednesday night oil prices closed little changed. Yesterday the energy sector rallied 1.7%, outstripped only by materials, which saw 1.8%. Next best was consumer discretionary, on 1.1%. Notwithstanding the broad spectrum of businesses that fall under the “industrials” banner, these three sectors have the clearest connections with China.  

Yesterday’s rally, we may assume therefore, which defied a fall on Wall Street, is all about expectations of fresh Chinese monetary stimulus. Maybe as early as this weekend.

And we’re still playing the technical trade. Wednesday closed just under what is now solid support at 5200. This is now a springboard for buyers.

Lower for Longer

As the period 2009-2014 attests, the greatest beneficiary of low, or zero, or even effectively negative (QE) interest rates, are asset prices – property and equities. Not business investment, as is the intention. The S&P500 bottomed out, famously, at 666 intraday at the depth of the GFC and thanks to Fed QE, which finally “tapered” off last year, 2015 saw a high of 2134.

All through 2015 the discussion has been whether or not the first Fed rate rise will cause a major sell-off. Well we had the sell-off, and not the rate rise. And now Wall Street has come to the conclusion that there simply will not be a rate rise in 2015, and maybe not even early in 2016. October is famously “the month for bottoms”, and November-December typically brings us the famed “Santa Rally”. Certainly this has been the case over the past, QE-driven six years.

Last night saw September CPI data released in the US. The headline CPI fell 0.2%, mostly due to another dip in oil prices. The annual headline rate is zero. The core (ex food & energy) CPI rose 0.2% for an annual rate of 1.9%, basically where it’s been sitting for the past few months. Wages grew a paltry 0.1% despite a US unemployment rate of only 5.1%. Annual wage growth is tracking at a modest 2.2%.

In other data, both the Empire State and Philadelphia Fed activity indices saw improvement for the month, but both remain in contraction.

These weak data releases follow on from Wednesday night’s sombre retail sales result, soggy Fed Beige Book and a profit warning from retail leviathan Wal-Mart. On Wednesday night Wall Street sold off on the realisation the US economy is not picking up pace into the December quarter as previously expected. But last night that weakness completely reversed.

On Wednesday night shares in JP Morgan and Bank of America sold off. JPM posted an earnings miss and BofA’s result failed to inspire. Last night Citigroup posted a beat, but only because it didn’t have to fork out any more hefty fines and legal costs relating to the GFC. Goldman Sachs missed. So as one might expect, last night Wall Street piled into the financials sector, and it led the main indices higher.

Sorry? They also piled into heavily beaten-down biotechs, which is why the Nasdaq rallied strongly. It would appear that last night the Santa Rally began. It’s early days of course, but (a) everyone has been expecting a Santa Rally, so might as well get in early and (b), if anything’s going to fuel the Santa Rally, it would be a lower for longer Fed interest rate.

The US financials sector typically leads a bull market. Or looking at it another way, you can’t have a bull market without the financials sector being involved. Last night’s seemingly contrarian activity on Wall Street appears to have signalled the end of will they/won’t they Fed speculation. Perhaps the CPI was the one last piece of the puzzle needed. History shows that zero interest rates are positive for stock markets.

Commodities

And it’s a global phenomenon. The US dollar index bounced back 0.5% last night to 94.43 despite last night’s data hardly being encouraging, but it was more talk in Europe of further ECB stimulus that dragged down the euro and thus pushed up the greenback.

The balance of a higher dollar and stimulus talk left base metal prices mixed on the session in London, with aluminium’s 1% fall the standout amongst otherwise small moves in either direction.

Iron ore dropped US$1.10 to US$53.20/t.

The oils were gain relatively quiet. West Texas rose US23c to US$46.86/bbl and Brent, on the expiry of its November delivery contract, fell US44c to US$48.71/bbl.

Gold fell back US$4.10 to US$1182.90/oz.

The Aussie initially plunged on the local jobs data yesterday but has since rallied back and is actually up 0.4% at US$0.7333 over 24 hours despite the stronger greenback.

Today

The SPI Overnight closed up 40 points or 0.8%.

The RBA will publish a Financial Stability Review today. Tonight sees CPI data in Europe, and the US will see industrial production and consumer sentiment numbers.

Rio Tinto ((RIO)) will release its quarterly production report today.

Over the weekend, all eyes will be on Beijing. The Chinese government seems to favour Sunday policy announcements. If there is no announcement, there will be the potential for this early Santa Rally, if that’s what it is, to derail. We’ve seen at least one big Beijing disappointment sell-off earlier this year. Although Beijing did respond fairly promptly thereafter.
 

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Next Week At A Glance

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By Greg Peel

Last night the US S&P500 closed above the psychological level of 2000 and the Dow above 17,000, both of which have offered resistance in recent times. As I write, the ASX200 is trading well above the 5200 level which has provided top-of-the-range resistance since the August correction.

This risk therefore is weighted to the upside on a technical basis. However commentators are not yet sure of any level of conviction, other than to largely agree that a rally to year-end, as it so often the case, is still expected.

China is no doubt where the obvious downside potential lays. Next week sees the release of Chinese trade and inflation data.

In the US, market surveys now suggest the majority expect there to be no Fed rate rise in 2015. An alternative may be the Fed announces a January rate rise in December, but March is firming as the most expected option. Meanwhile, the Fed remains “data-dependent”.

It’s Columbus Day in the US on Monday night which is one of those half-holidays which sees US banks and the bond market close but stock and commodity markets remain open. Thereafter, the week brings retail sales, business inventories, the Fed Beige Book, the CPI and PPI, industrial production, consumer sentiment and the Empire State and Philly Fed activity indices.

The influential ZEW investor sentiment index will be released in the eurozone next week, the first since the Volkswagen scandal blew up.

In Australia, next week sees NAB’s monthly business confidence and Westpac’s monthly consumer confidence surveys along with the September jobs numbers that for some reason have been delayed a week.

On the local stock front, next week sees the resource sector quarterly production report season ramp up, with reports due from the likes of Rio Tinto ((RIO)), Fortescue Metals ((FMG)) and Woodside Petroleum ((WPL)), among others.

At the same time, the AGM season steps up the pace with meetings due for Telstra ((TLS)), CSL ((CSL)) and Orora ((ORA)) among others while Lend Lease ((LLC)) will hold an investor day.
 

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The Overnight Report: Back To The Future

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed up 304 points or 1.9% while the S&P gained 1.7% to 1987 and the Nasdaq rose 1.6%.

A week is a long time

Most of Australia was enjoying a long weekend yesterday but that didn’t deter those who saw an opportunity to buy into a beaten-down stock market. It’s amazing to think that less than a week ago we were staring at a possible second leg down in the correction to maybe 4800 or lower, and today we will potentially hit and even breach the top of the recent range at 5200, in which case the second leg bets are all but off.

What changed in the meantime?

The Fed story, that’s what. As painful as it is to admit it, it looks like we’ll now be debating the will they/won’t they question on the first rate rise right through until March. At least, that’s where the US markets have now determined the greatest probability lies. Last Friday’s jobs report changed everything.

For most of 2015 Wall Street had been trading on a bad news is good news theme with respect to Fed policy, rising every time it appeared the Fed would keep rates lower for longer. But when it became clear the Fed was getting very close to making the first move, Wall Street switched around to a “just do it” attitude, increasingly frustrated with the uncertainty the central bank was perpetuating. Bad news became bad news.

But Friday’s shocker of a September US jobs report, including a downward revision to an already weak August and also to July has put Wall Street right back in its box. The uncertainty has ended, for the time being – not the way we expected, with the first rate rise, but due to the data, upon which the Fed is dependent, suggesting it’s simply too early right now.

That postponement of uncertainty led to the big reversal on Wall Street on Friday night, from 250 Dow points down to 200 points up at the close. The Dow spun on 16,000 and the S&P on 1900, and in technical terms it was a “key reversal day” having hit a lower low but closing at a higher high than the day before.

Everything bad is good again. And last night Wall Street carried on with that theme.

Yesterday it was a case of “buy everything” on Bridge Street. The most beaten-down sectors were more heavily favoured, such as materials, up 3.5%, and energy, up 2.9%, bit otherwise every sector put in gains of 1.5 to 2%.

There were some positive data releases out yesterday locally, but realistically they didn’t make much difference. The ASX200 opened strongly and had established its rally for the day within the first hour, largely drifting from there all the way to the close.

ANZ’s job ads series showed a strong 3.9% gain in September, following 1.3% in August, to suggest a monthly trend of 1.0%. “Growth since mid year now appears a little stronger than previously,” said ANZ.

A 0.3% rise in TD Securities’ inflation gauge in September takes us to 1.9% annual and the strongest pace since November last. The core rate remains at 1.6% annual, still below the RBA’s 2-3% comfort zone.

So no rate rise today. And no cut either.

Australia’s service sector PMI fell to 52.3 in September from 55.7 in August but at least remains above 50, suggesting expansion, and it’s the service sector providing the bulk of ANZ’s job ads trend.

News that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement had been settled was also likely a positive for the market yesterday, but as I suggested, I don’t think any of the above mattered that much.

As you were

The US service sector PMI fell to 56.9 from 59.0. Hooray! Everything bad is good again.

The eurozone services PMI fell to 53.6 from 54.3. Bravo! More QE from the ECB is on the cards. The German stock market was up 2.7% and the French up 3.5% last night. The UK PMI fell to 53.3 from 55.6. Ra Ra! The Bank of England won’t be raising anytime soon. The London market was up 2.8%.

The mood carried over to the US, where Wall Street opened higher and continued to rally all session, closing pretty much on its highs. The 300 gain for the Dow makes it 750-odd points from the initial negative reaction to Friday’s jobs report.

It wasn’t that long ago 750 points would represent a solid year.

Emerging markets also enjoyed strong sessions yesterday, given the threat of an accelerated currency crisis due to a Fed rate rise was killed off on Friday night. China remains on holiday, but a downgrade of Chinese GDP expectations for 2015 to 6.9% from 7.1% by the World Bank suggests more stimulus will be forthcoming from Beijing as well.

It seems only in Australia are we looking for good news to be good news, given we’d rather not see our economy going down the gurgler as many have feared. And we, too, may see some stimulus shortly – of the fiscal kind. It is expected the new government will have more foresight on such matters.

Commodities

The Chinese holiday has ensured quiet sessions on the LME this week. Base metals traded back and forth on low volume last night and closed mixed, with copper up 0.8% but lead, nickel and zinc all down 2%.

The US dollar index is up 0.2% at 96.09, mainly because the euro is weaker on expectations of extended QE.

Iron ore is unchanged at US$54.00/t.

The oils were stronger again last night, but still not really going anywhere. West Texas is up US68c at US$46.84/bbl and Brent is up US$1.11 at US$49.38/bbl.

Having rallied strongly on Friday night, gold is off US$3.50 at US$1135.80/oz.

The Aussie is up 0.5% at US$0.7085, with a Fed rate rise now less likely this year.

Today

The SPI Overnight closed up 66 points or 1.3%, If accurate, this would take us up through the top of the recent trading range at 5200.

Australia’s August trade balance data is out today, and this afternoon the RBA will meet and leave its rate on hold.

China remains closed today.

Rudi will appear on Sky Business three times this week. First on Wednesday, 5.30-6pm (Market Moves), then on Thursday at noon (Lunch Money) and again later that day on Switzer TV (between 7-8pm).
 

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Next Week At A Glance

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By Greg Peel

US jobs report tonight, which could determine whether the Fed lifts off in December or waits until next year. In theory the end of this month is also a possibility, but that is being given a very low probability by Wall Street.

Before the December meeting there'll be two more jobs reports.

Monday is services PMI day for all those countries who, unlike China, does not release both PMIs on the same day, including Australia and the US.

The US will also see trade, consumer credit and chain store sales data next week and the minutes of the last Fed meeting will be released on Thursday.

China will be closed on Monday through Wednesday.

The Bank of Japan will hold a policy meeting on Wednesday and the Bank of England on Thursday.

The RBA will hold a policy meeting on Tuesday. The week will see ANZ jobs ads, the trade balance and our own jobs numbers.

Monday is a public holiday in NSW, the ACT, Queensland and South Australia. The ASX is open.

On Sunday night clocks go forward in relevant states, meaning that from Tuesday morning the NYSE will close at 7am Sydney time.
 

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The Overnight Report: Road To Nowhere

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed down 12 points or 0.1% while the S&P gained 0.25 to 1923 and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%.

Cherry Picking

Yesterday’s session on Bridge Street was a game played in two halves.

The ASX200 opened the session, the month and the December quarter with a 40 point gain, suggesting Wednesday’s window-dressed session did indeed include an element of buying for other purposes, most likely technical. The index previously returned to the original correction low and then rebounded back above the solid support level of 5000, which is all very positive.

There the market stalled as traders awaited the midday release of the all-important Chinese purchasing managers’ indices (PMI).

In less than half an hour following those releases we were up another 40 points, and by the close we were up 90 points in total. The impetus for a second burst of strength came no doubt from the fact Beijing’s official September manufacturing PMI ticked up slightly, to 49.8 from August’s 49.7.

It’s hardly an increase to write home about, and indeed 49.8 implies China’s manufacturing sector remains in contraction (<50). But it was an increase, and not a decrease, which suggests, potentially, that the manufacturing decline in China we’ve seen these past few months may now have bottomed out on the back of Beijing’s various stimulus measures.

In fact, even an unchanged number would have been positive in that sense. And that was actually the case for China’s now larger services sector, for which Beijing’s PMI came in at 53.4, in line with August.

However…

Independent surveyor Caixin’s picture looks very different. Caixin’s manufacturing PMI, weighted more towards small and medium enterprises, fell to 47.2 from 47.3. Caixin’s services PMI fell to 50.5 from 51.5. We recall that it was Caixin’s flash estimate of August manufacturing PMI that sent the ASX200, and global markets, tumbling in the first place.

So it would appear the market has cherry-picked the stronger result. Admittedly, Caixin’s flash estimate of September manufacturing came in at 47.0 last week, so 47.2 is actually an improvement in a sense. It appears Bridge Street was happy to run with the numbers on the smaller Chinese manufacturing sector as sufficient reason to push on with the technical rebound from the lows.

In sector terms, it makes sense that energy (+2.5%) and materials (+1.9%) should see solid gains on an improved Chinese PMI, but it was otherwise a very mixed game. Industrials should be supported on a cyclical basis, and they rose 2.0%, but were outpaced by defensive utilities, which saw a 2.3% gain. Telcos were up 1.9%. Consumer staples were up 1.9%. Banks were up 1.8%.

No clear intent is evident there.

For the record, what’s left of Australia’s manufacturing sector saw its PMI rise to 52.1 from 51.7. Lower Aussie kicking in? Japan fell to 51.0 from 51.7.

Confusing

The UK manufacturing PMI fell to 51.5 from 51.6. London’s stock market was largely flat. The eurozone PMI was unchanged at 52.0, while Germany in particular fell to 52.3 from 53.3. The German stock market fell 1.6%.

The flat close on the Dow last night belies the fact the mood in Germany carried across the pond and indeed the Dow was down over 200 points mid-session. It then rallied all the way back.

So why was it down? Did Beijing’s data not ease some of those global growth fears?

Well, not initially. The US manufacturing PMI fell to 50.2 from 51.2 to mark its slowest pace of growth since November 2012. Here, it is the strong dollar being blamed. But on the other hand, a record 18 million new vehicles were sold in the US in September, causing veteran auto-watchers to shake their heads in disbelief.

It is apparent that Americans are now less fearful about jobs and the economy, and as such are confident enough to replace the now ten year-old cars they’ve had since before the GFC. Fuel is cheap, and finance is cheaper.

Nevertheless, the 200 point Dow fall possibly was a simple offset of the 200 point gain the night before, which was seen as pure window-dressing. When the buyers came in, they started buying the materials and energy sectors which does seem to be more like a response to China.

Except that base metal prices actually fell in London overnight. Oil jumped initially, on news of Russian airstrikes in Syria, but quickly fell back again as traders decided there wasn’t really much to be scared about. So the Dow fell when oil went up and rallied back when oil came back down – the reverse of what has been true these past months.

So all a bit strange, and, in the end, a flat close to kick off the start of the December quarter with no directional indicators at this stage. But it’s jobs night tonight, which will likely set the tone.

On that score we should note the US ten-year yield fell as low as 2.00% last night when the stock market was at its low, before rallying back in tandem to be down two basis points on the session at 2.04%. Given the ten-year hit 2.50% at the height of Fed rate rise expectations earlier in the year, we might suggest the bond market does not see a rate rise in 2015, despite the Fed’s insistence.

Commodities

Base metal prices did initially rally on the LME on the Chinese data but fell back in the afternoon, with all metals finishing in the red. Copper and lead, down 1.5%, and nickel, down 2.4%, were the standouts. The Chinese themselves were absent.

Iron ore rose US10c to US$54.50/t.

West Texas was up as much as US$1.75 at its height last night before falling to be down US33c at US$45.02/bbl. Brent is down US57c at US$47.95/bbl.

With the US dollar index flat at 96.16, gold is relatively steady at US$1113.50/oz.

The Aussie is up at US$0.7028 having traded as high as .7080 yesterday following the Chinese data release.

Today

The SPI Overnight closed down 18 points or 0.4%.

Australia’s August retail sales numbers are out this morning. China remains closed.

US jobs numbers are due tonight.

This weekend is a long weekend for most of Australia, including NSW, but the ASX will be open on Monday. Broker research will nevertheless be mostly absent so while The Monday Report will be published as usual, FNArena’s full service will be abbreviated on the day.

Clocks go forward on Sunday morning so as of Tuesday morning, the NYSE will close at 7am Sydney time.
 

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The Overnight Report: Nice Windows

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed up 235 points or 1.5% while the S&P gained 1.9% as the Nasdaq jumped 2.3%.

All Dressed Up

Question: if the Dow is up 1.5% overnight, why are the SPI futures only up a single point this morning?

The answer is because futures traders are likely writing off last night’s rally on Wall Street as end-of-quarter window-dressing and short-covering, just as was the case in Australia yesterday.

While we might argue that having reclaimed the correction low, and Wall Street not falling out of bed on Tuesday night, the local market was ripe for a rally. But if we note that the sectors that led the charge yesterday were all the sectors that have been beaten up over the past three months, we can’t really read much into yesterday’s performance as far as October is concerned.

The ASX200 finished the quarter down 8%, and down 20% from the June quarter high. Yesterday saw the banks, telco, materials and consumer staples all posting near equivalent 2.5% rallies while all the other sectors posted lesser performances. We would have likely seen energy joining in as well were it not for Origin Energy’s ((ORG)) announced capital raising.

Technically, it was interesting to note yesterday that the ASX200 did jump sharply from the open, but came a cropper at the familiar level of 5000. It appeared that previous solid support was now going to revert to resistance. We came all the way back to 4950 by midday.

The buying nevertheless then resumed, possibly with assistance from news of a surprise jump in Westpac’s China consumer sentiment index. It rose to 118.2 from 116.5 in August to mark the highest level in over a year, at only 1.7% below the long-run average. Interestingly, only 11% of those surveyed were invested in the stock market.

Aside from confirming the minimal connection between the Chinese stock market and the Chinese economy, the survey does suggest Chinese consumers are heartened by Beijing’s various stimulus and reform measures.

The ASX200 began to drift back up through the afternoon but it was the three o’clock wave that took the index back through 5000 without a hitch on the second attempt. To be back above that support level is technically positive, but we can now tear off the sheet that was the September quarter and start with a fresh page for October. Apart from October carrying its typical stigma, today sees the release of China’s PMIs and they will likely determine whether this scary month starts off with a bang or a whimper. Then China goes on holiday for a week.

Job Countdown

Wall Street similarly enjoyed a window-dressed session last night after posting around 7% falls for the major indices over the quarter. There was some good news, nonetheless, for fans of the “Just Do It” brigade.

ADP announced the addition of 200,000 new private sector jobs in the US in September when economists had forecast 190,000. While not always a strong correlation, Wall Street is setting itself for a similarly positive non-farm payrolls number tomorrow night.

So we could say there was an element of “good news is good news” in Wall Street’s rally last night.

Over in Europe, QE rules, which means “bad news is good news” still prevails. Last night’s flash estimate of the eurozone’s September CPI showed headline inflation has fallen back into deflation, at an annual minus 0.1%. Economists had expected a drop to 0.0% from August’s plus 0.1%.

The drop in inflation reflects oil prices, and indeed the eurozone’s core inflation measure is steady at 0.9%, but Mario Draghi has insisted the ECB will do whatever it takes to revive the European economy and deflation suggests he will be extending the central bank’s QE program in due course. The euro thus fell last night, and the European stock markets were all off to the races.

This sentiment flowed over the pond, and ensured a positive start in New York. Like the Australian market yesterday, the US indices lost steam mid-session but powered home in the last couple of hours. Of particular note was the biotech sector, which has been creamed this past week or more. It rallied back strongly, no doubt helped by short-covering, and hence the Nasdaq posted a 2.3% recovery.

Commodities

The same game was evident in London. But for LME traders, there was an added incentive to square up ahead of the week-long Chinese holiday. If the LME were Wall Street then copper would be the biotechs, and it rallied back 3.4% last night. Nickel is another metal that’s been hit particularly hard, and it jumped back 4.6%, while zinc has also had a tough time of late, and it put on 1.5%.

There were no such shenanigans in Singapore, where iron ore fell US30c to US$54.40/t.

The oils each jumped just over US50c, to US$45.35/bbl for West Texas and US$48.52/bbl for Brent. WTI began the quarter at US$60 so it’s had a 25% hammering, although the price has been stuck like glue to the US$45 level for all of September, but for some sharp ups and downs.

That strong ADP jobs number is another nail in the coffin for gold, if a Fed rate rise is what will kill off the yellow metal. Gold is down US$12.40 at US$1115.30/oz.

The US dollar index is up 0.3% to 96.23 on euro weakness but the Aussie is also up, by 0.4% to US$0.7013.

Today

As noted, the SPI Overnight is up a whole one point. Bridge Street will probably do very little this morning ahead of the Chinese PMI releases around midday.

Otherwise, China is now closed until next Wednesday for Golden Week.

China’s is not the only manufacturing PMI we’ll see over the next 24 hours, with Australia, Japan, the eurozone, UK and US all reporting, but it’s the only one that matters at this point.

Rudi will make his usual appearance on Sky Business' Lunch Money today, midday until 1pm.
 

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The Monday Report

By Greg Peel

Indecision

Friday proved to be a volatile day on Bridge Street, albeit in a tighter range than we’ve suffered recently. The ups and downs were almost a microcosm of the week itself. Early buy orders sent the index tumbling into an upward hole before the sellers quickly moved in to slap the market back into shape.

Thus the ASX200 was up 45 points from the open and down 35 at lunchtime, before rallying back into the green at 3pm and finishing with a thud on late selling, down 29 points at the close.

Not that any of it means that much at this point. Sector moves were inconsistent, with the consumer sectors and materials positing the only rallies while energy and the banks ensured a negative index close. The important point from a technical perspective is that at 5042, we still closed above 5000.

Swoosh

The strong opening on Bridge Street was attributed to supposedly positive commentary just before kick-off from Janet Yellen. A weak finish suggested perhaps Janet Yellen really didn’t say anything new.

Which she didn’t, as far as I’m concerned. The Fed still favours a rate rise before year-end and that’s what Fedheads have been consistently saying now for months. The only point of argument is that in reaffirming this stance, Yellen went some way to easing the global growth fears that heightened when the Fed did not chose to raise at the September meeting.

At least, that’s the way they took it in the northern hemisphere. London jumped 2.5%, Germany 2.8% and France 3.1%. Wall Street, which had closed on Thursday evening before Yellen spoke, jumped from the open and was up 260 Dow points at lunchtime.

Aiding the mood was an earnings report from Dow component Nike, which trashed expectations. The “beat” came down to an unexpected 30% increase in sales to…guess where -- China. Thus within the space of two sessions we had one US multinational – Caterpillar – issuing a profit warning due to the impact of weaker Chinese demand and another going the other way on increased Chinese demand.

Are rumours of China’s death premature? The difference is that Caterpillar indirectly feeds China’s export economy – Tonka trucks for mining the raw materials imported by China’s manufacturing sector for example – while Nike feeds a Chinese domestic consumer economy obsessed with all things Western, such as overpriced sandshoes. On the basis of these two US corporate results, one might be prepared to believe Beijing’s economic policies are working.

Wall Street would also have been heartened on Friday night by another revision to the June quarter GDP result, which saw the number lifted to 3.9% from a previous 3.7%. Surely this puts more pressure on the Fed to move, and as we know, Wall Street is now pro-rate rise rather than anti, as it was for most of 2015 to date.

Friday’s rally didn’t last through the afternoon, as a rate rise is still not good news for the volatile US biotech sector. This sector remains the best performing over twelve months but is sensitive to interest rates, given valuations are based on long dated earnings potential and every little tick up in the short end rate is amplified through discounted cash flow valuation from the long end.

It’s also a momentum traders’ sector, thus once it begins to move in either direction it usually gathers pace. Thus when biotechs started to drop on Friday, the selling accelerated through the afternoon. Hence we saw the Nasdaq close down 0.9% even as the Dow closed up 0.7% or 113 points, 68 of which represent a 9% jump for Nike, and the S&P split the difference closing flat at 1931.

The US ten-year bond rate rose 5 basis points to 2.17%.

Commodities

The oils also had another up-day, which is typically positive for Wall Street, but only to the tune of US27c for each of WTI and Brent. West Texas is at US$45.43/bbl and Brent at US$48.60/bbl.

While the US dollar index only rose 0.2% to 96.26, LME traders saw a stronger for longer dollar on Fed tightening and sold all base metals bar nickel, albeit modestly. Zinc copped the worst of it with a 2.7% fall.

Iron ore fell US60c to US$58.20/t.

Gold jumped up on Yellen’s supposed dovishness at her post-meeting press conference last week, and has slipped back again since Thursday night’s lift in hawkishness. It’s down US$7.80 at US$1146.30/oz.

The Aussie is up 0.3% at US$0.7024.

Given the local futures market takes the S&P500 as the Wall Street lead and not the Dow, the SPI Overnight closed down 4 points on Saturday morning.

The Week Ahead

We’re in for a busy week ahead, as locally we head towards a long weekend and the start of summer time. And of course the big match on the weekend – Australia v. England. Apparently some other trivial domestic tournaments will be held as well.

The two big events of next week are the US non-farm payrolls report for September due on Friday, in reference to all of the above, and the beginning of Golden Week in China, which sees the country close down from Thursday through to Wednesday.

While Golden Week is not quite as disruptive as the week-long Chinese New Year holiday, it can still play havoc with China’s non-seasonally adjusted data.

Thursday is the first of the month and that means manufacturing PMI day across the globe, including the numbers from Beijing and Caixin. Both parties now post both their manufacturing and services PMIs together, whereas everyone else spreads them out.

In the lead-in to the jobs report the US will see pending home sales and personal income & spending tonight, which includes an August reading for the Fed’s preferred PCE inflation measure, and Case-Shiller house prices and the Conference Board consumer confidence index on Tuesday.

Wednesday it’s the ADP private sector jobs report and the Chicago PMI, Thursday construction spending, vehicle sales and the manufacturing PMI, and Friday factory orders and jobs.

Japan will report industrial production, retail sales and jobs data across the week, as well as the quarterly Tankan Survey.

In Australia we’ll see building approvals on Wednesday and the manufacturing PMI on Thursday, followed by retail sales on Friday.

On the local stock front we’re still working through a handful of ex-divs, while Kathmandu ((KMD)) will post its FY15 result tomorrow. AGL Energy ((AGL)) and ASX ((ASX)) will both hold AGMs tomorrow, ahead of what becomes a flood of AGMs through October.

Rudi will only appear on Sky Business once this week and it'll be on Thursday at noon.
 

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The Overnight Report: Starving Caterpillar

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed down 78 points or 0.5% while the S&P lost 0.3% to 1932 and the Nasdaq fell 0.4%.

As I write, Janet Yellen is droning on in the background as she delivers a speech to the University of Massachusetts entitled “Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy”, which is proving every bit as riveting as the title suggests.

There is no Q&A session following, and while Wall Street arguably squared up last night in anticipation Yellen might say something significant regarding the first rate hike, all we have learnt is that the FOMC is still anticipating a rise this year.

So nothing new there.

Yield

Another day, another big market move on Bridge Street, and yesterday it was the turn of the upside. While we might argue that the failure of Wall Street to fall out of bed on the Chinese PMI news, and a bit of a rebound in VW-hit Europe, was enough to provide relief, realistically we simply bounced off 5000 for the fifth time.

I’m happy to call Tuesday’s actual 4998 close to be close enough to 5000.

And it appears we still have plenty of investors lined up to buy yield when the opportunity presents. The smart move is to stay out on the really crazy days when the resource sectors are going nuts and also to give the banks a wide berth because they’ve now become a trader’s plaything.

The best performing sectors in yesterday’s 1.5% rally for the ASX200 were consumer staples (2.2%), utilities (2.0%) and the telco (1.8%). The banks only managed 1.5% and the resources sectors rebounded only modestly.

No one would argue that reliable yield is very attractive in this market at present, given China fears have sunk all boats. “Reliable” at this point does not include the likes of a Woodside (fixed payout but falling earnings), a BHP (progressive dividend but on falling earnings) or even a bank (heyday over, payouts likely to be cut). “Reliable” is supermarket free cash flow, broadband usage, gas pipelines et cetera.

And as we have seen quite glaringly this year, companies offering yields that don’t look spectacular now but offer significant growth are outperforming across certain sectors.

But still we are beholden to volatility, which must yet work its way out of the system. Next Thursday the market is set to enter that uncomfortable seasonal period traders typically refer to as “October”.

Trouble In Tonka Toy Town

European stock markets took a dive again last night as the beast that is the VW scandal grew another head. Government authorities across Europe, including in the two big automaker economies of Germany and Italy, announced they will be testing all diesel vehicles, V-dubs or otherwise, for emissions irregularities.

In another development, Auto Bild magazine last night accused BMW diesel engines of producing greater than the regulated level of emissions, fuelling the fire of “Omigod, they’re all doing it”. BMW nevertheless strenuously denied the accusation and Auto Bild subsequently admitted they might actually have had it wrong.

This is a scandal that won’t go away any time soon. It will take a long time for VW to recover and a long time for Germany’s manufacturing reputation to be restored. Elon Musk will be loving it.

Speaking of things diesel, leading heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar last night issued a profit warning ahead of next month’s US result season, slashing its revenue forecast and announcing job cuts of up to 10,000 over the next couple of years. Like virtually every company in the resource sector and resource service sector globally, Caterpillar is being forced to restructure and refocus.

Aside from the 7% plunge in Caterpillar shares being worth around 30 Dow points alone, the profit warning served to rekindle global growth fears once more. Within the first hour, the Dow was down 260 points.

The global picture overwhelmed the domestic picture, given last night’s US data releases were not too bad. US new home sales rose 5.7% in August, beating forecasts, and while durable goods orders fell 2.0%, this was all lumpy aircraft orders and met expectations.

As an aside, the German IFO business sentiment indicator showed an unexpected rise last night. It is a pre-VW measure so has to be seen in that context, but suggested to IFO that global growth fears have not hit German sentiment as much as one might assume.  

Wall Street did not linger long at the low, and steadily rallied back to regain most of the opening loss by the close. A turnaround in oil prices proved supportive, and there was a suggestion of squaring up before Yellen said anything earth-moving, but also it was a case of the Dow approaching the psychological 16,000 mark at the depths and the S&P500 simultaneously eying off 1900.

Like 5000 in Australia, these round numbers are often where buy/sell orders are placed against the trend.

In the end, Wall Street, like Bridge Street, is simply banging around without a lot of conviction as the post-correction consolidation phase continues.

Commodities

Base metal markets are also attempting to consolidate. Aluminium, copper and lead all saw small moves to the upside last night while nickel, tin and zinc all rose 1.5-2%.

Iron ore is unchanged at US$56.80/t.

West Texas crude is up US38c to US$45.07/bbl and Brent is up US52c to US$48.33/bbl.

The big mover on the night was gold, which is up US$23.80 at US$1154.10/oz, despite the US dollar index being reasonably steady at 96.10. Given the move came pretty much all in one hit, rather than throughout the night, we can conclude that the trigger was a rate cut from the Norwegian Central bank to 0.75% from 1.00%, which sent the krone to a 13-year low.

The Aussie is steady just above US$0.70 despite another nostalgic wander into the swinging sixties yesterday.

Today

The SPI Overnight is up 2 points. Last Friday on Bridge Street was a wild ride of intense intra-day volatility. Maybe today will be more “Friday”.

Japan will release CPI data today and tonight a second revision of the US June quarter GDP result will be released.

Could be interesting if it’s an increase on the last revision of 3.7%.


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The Overnight Report: Taken In Stride

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed down 50 points or 0.3% while the S&P lost 0.2% to 1938 and the Nasdaq fell 0.1%.

Teetering

Tuesday night’s sell-off in copper provided a sufficient trigger to send the jitters through the local market yesterday morning, with China fears at the forefront of sentiment. The big miners, in particular, were clobbered, and just before midday the ASX200 was down 50 points.

As to what happened next was all going to come down to Caixin’s flash estimate of its Chinese manufacturing PMI. The manufacturing sector in China has now been outgrown by the service sector, but Australian raw materials don’t feed into services. And we recall that it was Caixin’s weak August estimate that set this recent correction in train.

August’s confirmed result was 47.3, and economists were forecasting a tick up to 47.5 in September on the support of Beijing’s various stimulus measures. Thus when the number came in at 47.0, all of Asia groaned.

The big miners were clobbered once more, sending the materials sector down 3.0% for the session. Resource partner energy copped a 2.2% sell-off. But most influential in the index’s final fall of 2.1% was a 2.5% carting for the banks.

Yet again the problem for the Australian market is shown up in such volatility for a sector that should be among the less volatile of any stock market. The Big Four are just too big a chunk of ASX200 capitalisation that by default they become a proxy for the Australian economy in general via the stock market. Thus “Sell Australia” means sell the banks.

There is not otherwise a lot of direct connection between Australian banks and Chinese manufacturing. Although we can make a connection via the RBA. If China’s economic slowdown forces the RBA to cut its rate again, that’s not good news for the banks. Banks like rising interest rates and a brighter economic outlook to raise longer date yields and provide greater net interest margins on lending.

Either way, the latest plunge on the local market took the ASX200 to a close of 4998. I have been suggesting for a while now that 5000 is the solid level of support which, if breached on a closing basis, would likely signal another down-leg through the previous intraday low of this correction (4928). So strictly, we’re there.

However…the good news is we did not close on the low of the session. That was 4988, at around quarter to three. In the context of a hundred point drop, a ten point recovery right at the death seems trivial, but what it showed was that the index was trying to get back over 5000. Indeed, three more little points, or maybe five more minutes of trading, and we may have been having a different conversation.

So, does 4998 mean a breach? I suggest it is not a “meaningful” breach, and today will tell. The SPI Overnight closed up 11 points so we may just be in for a reprieve. Despite a slight drop on Wall Street, most northern markets were stronger last night and seemingly less concerned over this latest weak Chinese data point.

Herby Rides Again

The Volkswagen scandal that rocked the car industry and the German and EU economies these past couple of days subsided somewhat last night on news the CEO of VW had fallen on his sword, taking the rap for the emissions fraud he insists he had no knowledge of. VW shares bounced 5% after having lost around a third of their value.

All German carmaker stocks bounced, as fear subsided that perhaps they’re all in on the game. Surely the likes of Merc and BMW can’t also be so mendacious? The relief rally filtered through to the European indices in general, and ECB president Mario Draghi also provided some confidence.

In light of heightened China fears and the subsequent decision by the Fed not to raise rates, Draghi told members of the European parliament last night the ECB stood ready to pump in more QE if deemed necessary, although not at this stage. Ultimately the German and French markets posted small gains, while London rebounded a full 1.6%.

Clearly Europe was not focused on, or at least as worried as Asian markets were yesterday about the weak Chinese PMI. Indeed, a flash estimate of the eurozone’s manufacturing PMI released last night also showed a weaker number, albeit the drop to 53.9 from 54.3 still keeps the sector in comfortable expansion territory.

Oil-Based

Similarly, a flash estimate of a US manufacturing PMI showed an unchanged 53.0. And similarly, Wall Street did not seem too perturbed about the China number, with the indices opening only a little bit lower and doing not much early in the session. It was Yom Kippur, and volumes were thin.

It wasn’t long before the Dow was down over 100 point nonetheless, but this was all to do with another 3.6% drop for WTI crude. Oil fell on the Chinese PMI, so in theory Wall Street did too, indirectly, but the afternoon saw a gradual rebound to a less intimidating close.

Wall Street has nevertheless done nothing but fall since the Fed made its non-decision last week. While it is easy to point to China, and the Fed’s highlighting of the China problem, the bulk of traders speaking on US business television suggest it is not China, but disappointment with the Fed that is reflected in the weakness.

The Fed’s October meeting looms large. Has the US central bank (a) been surprised by the quite visceral backlash to their indecision, and (b) surprised Wall Street did not rally on the news? Would a tweet from the likes of superstar bond trader Bill Gross suggesting “Get off zero now!” be enough to unsettle the FOMC? Or could the members point to yesterday’s Chinese PMI and say “See!”?

That meeting is not due till the end of October, so it’s just as well October’s not a scary month.

And just to top things off, the US government may once again shut down on October first, not due to budget wrangling, but due to deadlock over an abortion bill. How does one resolve such an issue?

Commodities

Base metal traders all but pre-empted the Chinese PMI on Tuesday night and in so doing, cleared out the stop losses and shook out the commodity funds. Thus while copper did fall again last night, it was only by 0.3%. Mario Draghi’s comments would have helped, and they also pushed up the euro and thus sent the US dollar index down 0.1% to 96.21.

Aluminium also dropped a little, but the other metals all rallied up to 1.5%.

Oil prices definitely fell on China fears, but given recent volatility, any little trigger will do. West Texas is down US$1.67 to US$44.69/bbl for the new November delivery front month and Brent, already November, is down US$1.18 to US$47.81//bbl. The recent range remains well and truly intact.

Iron ore fell US30c to US$56.80/t and has also been going nowhere fast of late.

Gold took the lower dollar and ECB QE talk as reason to rise US$5.60 to US$1130.30/oz.

The Australian stock market was not the only victim of China yesterday. The Aussie is down 1.2% to just over US$0.70.

Today

As noted, the SPI Overnight closed up 11 points, which would take us just a little back above 5000 in the index if accurate.

Japan is back on board today after a three day break, so it will be interesting to see how the Nikkei responds to the past three days’ global activity. Japan will also see a flash PMI of its own today.

Germany’s IFO business sentiment survey for September is out tonight, but I assume the survey was conducted before the VW scandal exploded.

Wall Street will see durable goods and new home sales.

Locally, Brickworks ((BKW)) will release its FY15 result today.

Rudi will make his weekly appearance on Sky Business, at noon (Lunch Money) and re-appear between 7-8pm on Switzer TV.
 

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The Overnight Report: Of Cars And Copper

By Greg Peel

The Dow closed down 179 points or 1.1% while the S&P lost 1.2% to 1942 and the Nasdaq fell 1.5%.

Hesitant

The ASX200 shot up 59 points out of the blocks yesterday in another bout of what has now become familiar whiplash volatility. It looked like we might be in for another one of our total reversal sessions following the drubbing on Monday, but this time it wasn’t to be so.

The index faded and faded as the day wore on, suggesting the opening rally was more about sellers backing off than buyers arriving in force. Just after 3pm, the index was up a mere 6 points. Then it looks like someone put in a sizeable late sell order, given a close of up 37 seemed to run counter to the mood over most of the day.

That buyer might be feeling a little sheepish this morning.

The ultimate close was a bit of a mixed bag on a sector basis. Yet another pop for the oil prices sent energy up 2.7%, while an unchanged iron ore price was enough to see a 0.3% fall in materials – the only sector to finish in the red. With utilities, the telco and consumer staples also closing up around 1.5% we might suggest yield was the story yesterday, albeit the banks only managed 0.6%.

Recent extreme volatility in bank share prices may well have scared off more conservative investors.

It will all be a different story today nonetheless, with northern markets copping a thumping overnight. I have been suggesting these past few days that weakness on Wall Street post-Fed has been more to do with the derivative expiry and Fed disappointment than it is to do with renewed China fears, given there’s nothing much new about China fears. Well, it looks like commodity traders have had a think about it, thanks to Janet Yellen’s highlighting of the issue, and decided to get out.

Commodities

The benchmark commodity for global economic growth is copper, and last night it fell 3.4% on the LME, having been down as much as 4.5% at the afternoon “close”. At just over US$5000/t copper is near its six-year low, but has not yet fallen back to its August low.

Commentators were scratching their heads as to why commodity prices suddenly decided to give way last night, but realistically we’d have to assume a bit of building angst since the Fed made the historical decision of allowing the rest of the world to dictate US monetary policy. Stop loss breaches and commodity fund selling did the rest (commodity funds much constantly buy and sell to maintain basket weights and in so doing feed volatility somewhat self-destructively).

The likely trigger was a report out from the Asian Development Bank which featured a downgrade to the bank’s 2015 China growth forecast to 6.8% from 7.4%. My only comment here is where on earth did 7.4% come from? Even Beijing’s target is 7.0%. And the rest of the world’s economists had already pencilled in numbers around 6.8% in January.

But that’s markets for you.

Beyond copper, the other base metals all fell around 1.5%.

Iron ore was again unchanged at US$57.10/t, but that hasn’t stopped BHP Billiton ((BHP)) being thumped 5% overnight, Rio Tinto ((RIO)) 3.5%, and London-based Glencore 10%.

West Texas crude is down, but only by US65c to US$45.83/bbl. And Brent is up US27c at US$48.99/bbl.

Commodity price falls have helped the Aussie down 0.6% to US$0.7089, and the Aussie, and commodities, were also under pressure from a 0.4% gain in the US dollar index to 96.32.

Gold is thus down US$8.70 at US$1124.70/oz, and silver fell 3%.

That was all about weakness in the euro, and that is all about cars.

Bugs in the system

What started as an embarrassment has now led to a major mea culpa as the number of vehicles Volkswagen will have to recall due to emissions fraud has risen to 11 million globally.

VW shares fell 15% in Germany last night and traders began to wonder whether the leading carmaker (briefly the biggest company in the world after the fall of Lehman) is alone in its software manipulation. When you think VW, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi and Porsche, you realise that auto-making is a significant contributor to Germany’s GDP.

The DAX thus fell 3.8% last night, dragging the rest of Europe and the UK down with it. Auto-makers were a target globally, including Ford, which fell 2.8%.

Thus on a combination of copper and cars, Wall Street was trashed on the open. The Dow was down close to 300 points by lunchtime.

However volume was light, which is in sharp contrast to near-record volumes recorded last Friday, expiry day, when last Wall Street tanked. It was more a case of no buyers than many sellers. Hence the indices did manage to recover some ground in the afternoon.

Bonds nevertheless became a safe haven once more, with the US ten-year yield falling 9 basis points to 2.12%.

It should also be acknowledged that the European car crisis, if we want to call it that, has come on top of ever-building migrant crisis. Last night EU countries agreed to resettle 120,000 Syrian refugees between them, to take the pressure off the landing destinations of Italy and Greece. It is a humanitarian crisis, but it also represents a heavy cost burden for EU countries struggling to reignite growth.

Today

The SPI Overnight closed down 66 points or 1.3%.

If accurate, we’ll be heading toward 5000 again, but we’d need another drop of over 100 points in the ASX200 to breach that level today. It is likely all going to depend on today’s release of Caixin’s flash estimate of its China manufacturing PMI for September, due around midday.

Caixin’s final August result was 47.1, and the forecast for September is 47.6. If this is accurate, then we may see some market relief, although sub-50 still means contraction. But improvement would go some way to suggesting Beijing’s desperate stimulus attempts might just be showing signs of effect.

Realistically, for earlier interest rate cuts and currency devaluations, it’s very early days for a flow-through impact.

Japanese markets will again be closed today, which is probably a blessing for the world’s other major auto-maker.

Locally, Nufarm ((NUF)) will release its FY15 result.

Rudi will appear on Sky Business twice today. First as guest between 5.30-6pm (Market Moves) then later as host on Your Money, Your Call Equities (8-9.30pm).
 

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