TODAY’S S&P 500 SET-UP – March 13, 2012


As we look at today’s set up for the S&P 500, the range is 11 points or -0.59% downside to 1363 and 0.21% upside to 1374. 

 

SECTOR AND GLOBAL PERFORMANCE

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EQUITY SENTIMENT:

  • ADVANCE/DECLINE LINE: -365 (-1567) 
  • VOLUME: NYSE 643.71 (-10.48%)
  • VIX:  15.64 -8.59% YTD PERFORMANCE: -33.16%
  • SPX PUT/CALL RATIO: 1.36 from 1.57 (-13.38%)

CREDIT/ECONOMIC MARKET LOOK:


US Deficit – we know it doesn’t matter anymore, right? Right. At -$237B for FEB that’s a new US record for monthly deficit print and should remind genius growth forecasters that tax revenues are collected on a real-basis too. Inflation at the pump finally running as headline headwind for Obama even in the NY Times poll this morning. US Tax revs are down y/y in FY 2012 vs FY 2012, despite the GDP “recovery”… spin.

TREASURIES – either 2s and 10s are testing a breakout in the US this morning because credit risk is rising on the margin (deficit) and/or Bernanke is going to be less dovish than he has been for the last 6yrs at today’s FOMC whisperings. Asymmetric risk lives on as long as this ridiculously short-sighted game of chasing yield does. Breakout lines for 2s and 10s = 0.26% and 2.03%, respectively. 

  • TED SPREAD: 39.72
  • 3-MONTH T-BILL YIELD: 0.08%
  • 10-Year: 2.05 from 2.03
  • YIELD CURVE: 1.72 from 1.71 

MACRO DATA POINTS (Bloomberg Estimates):

  • 7:30am: NFIB Small Business, est. 94.5 (prior 93.9)
  • 7:45am/8:55am: ICSC/Redbook weekly comp sales
  • 8:30am: Advance Retail Sales, Feb., est. 1.1% (prior 0.4%)
  • 10am: IBD/TIPP optimism, est. 50.0 (prior 49.4)
  • 10am: JOLTs Job Openings, Jan., est. 3334 (prior 3376)
  • 10am: Business Inventories, Jan., est. 0.5% (prior 0.4%)
  • 11:30am: U.S. to sell $40b 4-week bills
  • 1pm: U.S. to sell $21b 10-yr notes (reopening)
  • 2:15pm: FOMC Rate Decision, est. 0.25% (prior 0.25%)
  • 4:30pm: API

 GOVERNMENT:

    • President Obama takes British PM David Cameron to a basketball game in Ohio
    • Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will force a vote on 17 of Obama’s judicial nominees starting today
    • House in recess all week
    • Supreme Court not in session
    • Defense Secretary Leon Panetta traveling in Kyrgystan  

WHAT TO WATCH:

  • U.S. to file complaint at WTO today over Chinese limits on exports of rare earths used in high-tech products
  • Retail sales probably rose 1.1% in Feb., the most in five months, spurred by strongest demand for automobiles since 2008
  • FOMC meets today; Fed Chairman Bernanke said Jan. 25, after last meeting, that policy makers were considering additional asset purchases to boost growth
  • Intel said to be considering creating online pay-TV service that works on TV sets, computers, mobile devices
  • Alabama, Mississippi hold primaries in the Republican presidential race; Hawaii holds caucuses
  • Facebook accused in lawsuit by Yahoo! of infringing patents covering functions critical to websites, including Internet advertising, information sharing and privacy
  • Disney annual meeting in K.C, Missouri today; Glass Lewis opposes five nominees to board
  • Chevron hosts analyst meeting, 9am
  • Euro-area finance ministers signed off on second Greek bailout
  • Employers in U.S. plan to boost hiring during next three months as pace of economic growth picks up: Manpower survey
  • More than twice as many Americans view economy’s prospects as brightening as see them darkening, reversal from nine months ago, according to Bloomberg National Poll conducted March 8-11 

EARNINGS

    • Factset Research (FDS) 7 a.m., $1.12
    • Empire Co (EMP/A CN) 7:20 a.m., C$1.10
    • Raven Industries (RAVN) 9:10 a.m., $0.48
    • Transcontinental (TCL/A CN) 9:50 a.m., C$0.34
    • Power Financial (PWF CN) 11:20 a.m., C$0.59
    • Alimentation Couche Tard (ATD/B CN) 11:23 a.m., $0.48
    • Francesca’s Holdings (FRAN) 4:01 p.m., $0.17
    • Zhongpin (HOGS) 4:10 p.m., $0.51
    • Capital Power (CPX CN) 5:59 p.m., $0.35    

COMMODITY/GROWTH EXPECTATION (HEADLINES FROM BLOOMBERG)

  • Milk Souring as Record Profit Spurs Herd Expansions: Commodities
  • Copper Advances as Economic Rebound in U.S. May Stoke Demand
  • Oil Gains From One-Week Low as Economy Lifts Fuel-Demand Outlook
  • Gold Declines in London Before Fed Meeting as Dollar Strengthens
  • Vekselberg Quits Deripaska’s Rusal, Citing ‘Deep Crisis’
  • Soybeans Advance as China Seen Boosting Purchases; Wheat Rises
  • Palm Oil Gains to Nine-Month High as Malaysian Inventory to Drop
  • Kansas Wheat Faces Weather Risk as Warm Spell Aids Crop Progress
  • Water Pollution Tied to Agriculture Increasing, Costing Billions
  • Viterra Soaring on Bid Talk Still Offers 42% Discount: Real M&A
  • Iran Oil Power Declining as Explorers Increase Spending: Energy
  • Obama Takes Aim at China With WTO Case on Rare-Earth Export Caps
  • Ore-Shipping Rates Seen 13% Lower as China Cuts Target: Freight
  • Natural Gas Falls to 10-Year Low on Weather
  • Natural Gas Falls to 10-Year Low on Mild Weather, Record Output
  • Copper ETP Investments Increase to Record, ETF Securities Says
  • Rubber Climbs for Fourth Day as Yen Weakens, Supply May Decline 

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CURRENCIES


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EUROPEAN MARKETS


SPAIN – despite the concept that all is fine in no-volume rallies until it isn’t, the rest of the world’s deficit/debt problems do not cease to exist. The recent breakdown in Spanish stocks and bonds show you that in pictures – now the Euro is failing to overcome $1.32 resistance as well. Sovereign Debt risk never goes away, but its intensity focuses the mind when country currencies, stocks, and bonds do the same thing at the same time.

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ASIAN MARKETS

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MIDDLE EAST


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The Hedgeye Macro Team