Asian Stocks to Follow US Rally With Focus on CPI
(Muh NASDAQ closed at a record high so everyone seems to be in the long pool-which is now the crowded trade do tread lightly as the meme stocks helped but AMC basically ded meat-that FUGLY from $9 to below $6 andback to about $6.88 as the secondary told ya what it was really worth and it’s “about tree-fiddy” >>20865294 pb GameStop’s short interest is 64,370,000 shares but that is non-naked reported volumes so this has a few moar days in it then it’s over-AMC pretty much told you that plus this comes as the markets have run out of gas and not many are short….how much did they pay that douche yo “resurface” after 3 years at market highs?….not a coincide imo…Japanese Yields on Govt debt still at 11year highs and that shows no sign of cooling off -10y cap 3 and 20y cap 4 and cap 5 our 10y just under 4.5%-have broken out above the recent highs of Oct 2023 but unless the BoJ reversed its stated trajectory on bond monetizing however muh yen has retraced about 2/3rds of the total intervention so Mr. Bond has to be dealt with sooner or later)
Stocks in Asia are poised to follow a big tech-led rally in US benchmarks, as investors look to key inflation data later Wednesday for clues on the Federal Reserve’s next steps. Equity futures for Japan and Australia pointed higher, while those for Hong Kong were little changed with that market closed for a holiday. In the run-up to US consumer price index data, the S&P 500 shrugged off Jerome Powell’s signals that interest rates will be higher for longer(the rate THEY control is Prime and rates could go higher especially if Japan doesn’t take the same route in those currency interventions as they used cash instead of US Treasuries at the end of April)a mixed reading on producer inflation. The report weighed on bond yields and oil. Tesla Inc. and Nvidia Corp. led gains in the “Magnificent Seven” cohort of megacaps, as meme-stock traders once again piled into GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. US futures were little changed in early Asia trading. Underlying US inflation probably moderated in April for the first time in six months, offering some hope that price pressures will start to ease again. Compared with April 2023, the core CPI is projected to rise 3.6%. While the annual increase would be the smallest in three years, it would still be too high to warrant rate cuts. A survey conducted by 22V Research showed 49% of investors expect the market reaction to the CPI report to be “risk-on” — while only 27% said “risk-off.” The S&P 500 rose to around 5,247, just shy of the March 28 closing level of 5,254.35 that would mark its 23rd record in 2024. Treasury 10-year yields fell five basis points to 4.44%, a Bloomberg gauge of the dollar declined for the first time in three days and oil slipped 1.4% in New York while gold rose. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon Index of US-listed Chinese companies slipped from a seven-month high reached Monday. US producer prices rose in April by more than projected >>20865607 pb
The options market is betting that the S&P 500 will move 1% in either direction after today’s CPI report.
Key (remaining) events this week:
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China rate decision, Wednesday
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Eurozone industrial production, GDP, Wednesday
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US CPI, retail sales, business inventories, empire manufacturing, Wednesday
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Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari speaks, Wednesday
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Japan GDP, industrial production, Thursday
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US housing starts, initial jobless claims, industrial production, Thursday
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Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker speaks, Thursday
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Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester speaks, Thursday
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Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic speaks, Thursday
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China property prices, retail sales, industrial production, Friday
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Eurozone CPI, Friday
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US Conf. Board leading index, Friday
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/asian-stocks-to-follow-us-rally-with-focus-on-cpi-markets-wrap-1.2073009
https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/GME/short-interest/
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-bond-yield
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/20-year-bond-yield
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y
https://www.cnbc.com/asia-markets/