Opening Bell: Stocks Bounce Ahead Of Fed, Earnings Reports; FTSE 100 Up
Investing.com | Jan 30, 2019 09:22
- European shares, U.S. futures climb amid trade, Fed and earnings expectations
- U.K. assets rally after PM May wins parliament's support
- Industrials outperform a weak market as tech stocks feel the pressure h2 Key Events/h2
- Chinese President Xi Jinping’s top economic aide, Vice Premier Liu He, will meet with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday and Thursday.
- Wednesday Fed Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference after the FOMC rate decision.
- Microsoft is scheduled to release earnings results on Wednesday after market, with upbeat predictions of $1.09 EPS, up from last year’s $0.96 EPS for the corresponding quarter.
- Facebook is due to report corporate results on Wednesday after market, with a $2.17 EPS expectations, from the $2.2 the same quarter last year.
- Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) (NASDAQ:earnings on Wednesday after market, with a $0.91 EPS prediction, from last year’s $0.85.
- Tesla (NASDAQ:enough to overcome last year's bankruptcy concerns.
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Canadian GDP, IPPI and RMPI for December are released Thursday.
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Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite closed up 0.55 percent Tuesday.
- The MSCI All-Country World Index rose less than 0.05 percent.
- The MSCI Emerging Market Index increased 0.2 percent.
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The Canadian loonie was up 0.40 percent against the U.S. greenback early Wednesday, trading at 0.7565.
- The Dollar Index gained less than 0.05 percent, coming back from more than a 0.1 percent decline.
- The euro dropped 0.1 percent to $1.1427.
- The Japanese yen gained 0.1 percent to 109.34 per dollar.
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Canada’s 10-year yield was up early Wednesday at 1.955, a 0.72-percent increase.
- The yield on 10-year Treasuries climbed one basis point to 2.72 percent.
- Germany’s 10-year yield fell one basis point to 0.20 percent.
- Britain’s 10-year yield slipped one basis point to 1.259 percent, the lowest in more than two weeks.
- Japan’s 10-year yield dropped less than one basis point to 0.005 percent.
- West Texas Intermediate crude fell 0.2 percent to $53.18 a barrel.
- Gold gained 0.2 percent to $1,313.96 an ounce, the highest in almost nine months.
- Iron ore surged as much as 9.5 percent to the highest since March 2017 in Singapore.
Global stocks resumed yesterday’s pattern this morning, with European shares and futures on the Fed risk and corporate earnings.
Meanwhile, the still struggling to overcome the 1.3200-mark, the highest level since November—with some expecting further downward pressure from the arduous task May is now facing.
The STOXX Europe 600 bounced back from a weak opening, when it was weighed down by choppy performance among regional benchmarks.
Earlier, during a mixed Asian session, Japan’s earnings success.
The tech giant's stock was up $8.32 to $154.68, or 5.38 percent (black line) in the premarket, after first quarter figures and forward guidance came in better than the market had feared following the company's shock warning earlier this month. On January 2, Apple had in fact lowered guidance for the first time in 15 years on weakening Chinese demand and fewer iPhone upgrades.
Hong Kong’s ASX 200 edged 0.21 percent higher.
h2 Global Financial Affairs/h2On Tuesday, U.S. indices were dragged lower by technology stocks in an earnings-focused day, as investors were bracing for Apple’s release.
The fought below the 2,700 line-in-the-sand between the longer-term downtrend since the September record-peak and the post-Christmas rally.
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Conversely, MMM ) earnings beat—though we remain wary of investors' optimism, considering the multinational group reiterated warnings on a Chinese slowdown and cut its guidance.
The broader market dropped lower, pressured by persistent trade headwinds ahead of paramount talks between U.S. and China's top officials, kicking off in Washington today. However, the most sensitive sectors to the outcome of the negotiations—such as 002502 ) CFO Meng Wanzhou on Tuesday—a day after the U.S. announced criminal charges against the Chinese telecoms giant—added to the general trepidation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (+0.21 percent) was the only major U.S. index closing in the green, reflecting industrials stocks' outperformance.
The tech-heavy Russell 2000 closed 0.02 percent into negative territory.
Overall, the strong post-Christmas equity rally came to a full stop ahead of key technical resistance (as described in the S&P 500 section above) amid a barrage of potential macro and fundamental catalysts, including trade jitters, Brexit, the Venezuelan crisis, a global growth slowdown, the threat of ongoing U.S. government shutdown and—last but not the least— earnings risk, with MSFT ) scheduled to report today.
However, we have considered for a long time the slightest hawkish tone from them, they could move in droves into a defensive posture, and could in turn push down the back end of the Treasury yield curve, toward an inversion.
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