TODAY’S S&P 500 SET-UP – February 10, 2012


As we look at today’s set up for the S&P 500, the range is 26 points or -1.33% downside to 1334 and 0.60% upside to 1360. 

 

SECTOR AND GLOBAL PERFORMANCE

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EQUITY SENTIMENT:

  • ADVANCE/DECLINE LINE: 36 (-444) 
  • VOLUME: NYSE 759.18 (-0.81%)
  • VIX:  18.63 2.59% YTD PERFORMANCE: -20.38%
  • SPX PUT/CALL RATIO: 1.54 from 1.40 (10.00%)

CREDIT/ECONOMIC MARKET LOOK:


10-year UST – markets tend to push the Pain Trade to its highest pressure points and then put the pain on those who chased. The 10-year yield ripped yesterday all the way up to our 2.03% (intermediate-term TREND line), and then reversed (2.00% this morning and falling). If we’re right and Global Growth slows sequentially as inflation rises here in FEB, we want to be long the long-bond.

  • TED SPREAD: 42.36
  • 3-MONTH T-BILL YIELD: 0.09%
  • 10-Year: 1.98 from 2.04
  • YIELD CURVE: 1.73 from 1.78

MACRO DATA POINTS (Bloomberg Estimates):

  • 8:30am, Trade Balance, Dec., est. -$48.5b (prior -$47.8b)
  • 9:55am, UMich consumer confidence, Feb., P, est. 74.8 (prior 75)
  • 12:30pm, Fed’s Bernanke speaks on housing in Orlando
  • 12:50pm, Fed’s Pianalto speaks on housing in Cleveland
  • 1pm: Baker Hughes rig count
  • 2pm, Monthly Budget, Jan., est. -$34b (prior -$49.8b)

GOVERNMENT/POLITICS:

    • President Obama to sign Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act, joined by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
    • Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich speak at American Conservative Union’s CPAC ’12 conference, 10am. AFL-CIO holds counter-demonstration, noon
    • Romney holds town hall meeting in Portland, Maine, on eve of state’s Republican caucuses, 5:15pm
    • House, Senate not in session

WHAT TO WATCH: 

  • German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said to have told lawmakers in Berlin that Greece will miss its debt-cutting targets
  • U.S. trade deficit may have widened in Dec. to $48.5b from $47.8b previous month: economists
  • P&G said to have decided it will seek to end sale of its Pringles snack business to Diamond Foods
  • IEA cut its 2012 global oil demand forecast for sixth month as a “darkening” economic outlook reduced prospects for global growth
  • Alcatel-Lucent rose after 4Q results; will offer access to patents through licensing syndicate
  • Barclays said it may miss profitability target set by CEO a year ago
  • Micron Techology holds analyst meeting days after CEO Steve Appleton died
  • Google said to be developing home-entertainment system, WSJ says

 EARNINGS:

    • Calpine (CPN) 6 a.m., $0.04
    • Alliant Energy (LNT) 6 a.m., $0.56
    • Laboratory of America Holdings (LH) 6:45 a.m., $1.53
    • PPL (PPL) 6:58 a.m., $0.61
    • Apollo Global Management LLC (APO) 7 a.m., $1.39
    • Buckeye Partners (BPL) 7 a.m., $0.84
    • Brookfield Office Properties (BPO CN) 7 a.m., $0.25
    • AllianceBernstein Holding (AB) 7:15 a.m., $0.19
    • Flir Systems (FLIR) 7:30 a.m., $0.45
    • Arch Coal (ACI) 7:45 a.m., $0.32
    • Telus (T CN) 8 a.m., C$0.79
    • Emera (EMA CN) 9:48 a.m., C$0.35
    • IGM Financial (IGM CN) 10:35 a.m., C$0.76

COMMODITY/GROWTH EXPECTATION (HEADLINES FROM BLOOMBERG)

  • Copper Traders Turn Bullish as Economy Spurs Demand: Commodities
  • Oil Falls From Three-Week High as Greece Counters U.S. Economy
  • Gold Falls a Third Day in London as Commodities Drop on Greece
  • Copper Cuts Fifth Weekly Gain on Record Shanghai Stockpiles
  • De Beers Sales Increase 27% on Higher Diamond Demand, Prices
  • Palm Oil Declines as Malaysian Reserves Fall Less Than Forecast
  • China January Copper Imports Fall From Record; Scrap Slumps
  • Palm Oil Inventories in Malaysia Decline to Five-Month Low
  • Contango in Gas Is Sell Signal for SocGen, Citi: Energy Markets
  • Australia’s Floods May Boost 2012-2013 Cotton Output to Record
  • South Africa to Lure Miners With $40 Billion Boost For Railways
  • Bumi’s Largest Shareholders ‘Confident’ of Ousting Rothschild
  • Chocolate Makers In Love With Valentine Sales: Chart of the Day
  • Copper Traders Bullish on Global Growth
  • IEA Cuts 2012 Oil Demand Forecast on ‘Darkening’ Growth
  • Wheat Set for First Weekly Drop in Four on Record Global Stocks
  • Coffee Rises as Roasters May Tap European Stocks; Cocoa Falls

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CURRENCIES


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EUROPEAN MARKETS


FRANCE – we’re short French Equities for the 1st time since late December for 3 reasons: 1. Growth data slowing as inflation data rising 2. CAC failed at its long-term TAIL of 3565 resistance and 3. EUR/USD is bumping up against a wall of resistance at 1.33 (highly correlated to the CAC). European stocks should stop trading on Greek “news” as the economic gravity of the French slowdown becomes more glaring.


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ASIAN MARKETS


CHINA – China just moved into the Top 3 Most Read on Bloomberg this morning for the first time in a while (Greece has dominated news-flow), and given China actually matters to Global Growth, this makes sense. In the last 48 hrs Chinese data did exactly what we said it was going to do: 1. Inflation accelerating sequentially to 4.5% from 4.1% y/y and 2. Growth Slowed, big time, w/ Exports down -0.5% y/y (1st y/y drop in over 2yrs).

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MIDDLE EAST


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The Hedgeye Macro Team