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As would be expected, much better-than-expected numbers for the November employment situation sent equities up sharply early in the day on Friday. But by close, stocks had come down significantly as many traders simply worried that equities have gotten too far ahead of economic conditions. Also, the dollar jumped on the release of the jobs report and weighed on materials and energy sectors. Still, for the day and week, most indexes posted moderate to sizeable gains.
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ES Emini Chart for November 30, 2009
There are not many days when the market is in such an obliging mood for traders. Instead of being the usual brutal beast, we were treated to a very gentle and easy day to trade. Just the same, I did manage to blow one trade.
The Dubai issue dominated most of the action early on and drove prices down with force, but then the market reconsidered the impact of the Dubai restructuring and decided it wasn’t as big a deal as originally thought. I caution, though, that the stock market is a fickle beast, and might well decide, at a later moment, that it needs to worry about Dubai after all.
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| ESZ9 | 1102.83 | 1116.17 | 1084.92 | 1071.58 | 1053.67 | |
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| Market Consensus Before Announcement The Chicago PMI jumped more than 8 points in October to 54.2. For the month, production surged nearly 17 points. We may see further improvement in November as the new orders index jumped more than 15 points. |
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| Definition The Institute of Supply Management – Chicago compiles a survey and a composite diffusion index of business conditions in the Chicago area. The survey is conducted by Kingsbury International, LTD. Manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms are both surveyed. Hence, it is not directly comparable to pure manufacturing surveys. Readings above 50 percent indicate an expanding business sector. |
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The Reuter’s/University of Michigan’s Consumer sentiment index for early November fell back a very steep 4.6 points to a very weak 66.0. Weakness was split between current conditions and the outlook. The retreat in confidence was tied to the still contracting jobs market.
| ESZ9 For 11/24/2009 |
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| ESZ9 | 1130.42 | 1158.08 | 1083.83 | 1056.17 | 1009.58 | |
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| Market Consensus Before Announcement GDP for the third quarter in the advance estimate came in stronger than expected with a 3.5 percent gain, following a 0.7 percent dip in the prior quarter. The third quarter boost was the first positive GDP number since a 1.5 percent increase for the second quarter of 2008. Cash for clunkers did add substantially to third quarter growth as motor vehicle output added 1.66 percentage points to the third-quarter change in real GDP after adding 0.19 percentage point to the second-quarter change. Inflation is still subdued as the GDP price index edged up 0.8 percent, following no change in the second quarter. Looking ahead, more recent monthly numbers indicate a downward revision to third quarter growth—including negatives from monthly international trade and business inventories |
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| Highlights Easy year-over-year comparisons look to make for strong mid-single-digit gains for November same-store sales, according to ICSC-Goldman. The week-to-week pace in the Nov. 21 week was unchanged but not the year-on-year pace which rose nearly 1 full percentage point to plus 3.3 percent for the best reading in more than two years. The report sees this rate increasing in the Nov. 30 week, predicting strong sales on what it calls “Bargain” Friday and also strong sales on the following Saturday. But year-on-year comparisons are not what the financial markets move on. It’s month-on-month that counts. Redbook, up at 8:55 ET, does offer a November-to-October measure. |
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Well, the market started out with a great up move and then sort of unwound for the rest of the day. Notice that I put the Fibonacci replacements in the chart and the market found support at the 61.8% level and then hovered above and below that level for quite some time.
It was not an exciting day to trade, though I had to fight impulses as the market faded of the highs to stay and in the trade and let it ride. Not an easy thing for a devout scalper, but I managed to stick by my guns. The volume, as it has been for quite a while, was not overly impressive which, in my mind, doesn’t point to a terribly robust market. We shall see.