TODAY’S S&P 500 SET-UP – May 16, 2012


As we look at today’s set up for the S&P 500, the range is 34 points or -0.50% downside to 1324 and 2.05% upside to 1358. 

                                            

SECTOR AND GLOBAL PERFORMANCE

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EQUITY SENTIMENT:

  • ADVANCE/DECLINE LINE: on 5/15 NYSE -926
    • Up from the prior day’s trading of -2114
  • VOLUME: on 5/15 NYSE 868.62
    • Increase versus prior day’s trading of 8.20%
  • VIX:  as of 5/15 was at 21.97
    • Increase versus most recent day’s trading of 0.46%
    • Year-to-date decrease of -6.11%
  • SPX PUT/CALL RATIO: as of 05/15 closed at 2.35
    • Down from the day prior at 2.50 

CREDIT/ECONOMIC MARKET LOOK:

  • TED SPREAD: as of this morning 38
  • 3-MONTH T-BILL YIELD: as of this morning 0.09%
  • 10-Year: as of this morning 1.77
    • Unchanged from prior day’s trading
  • YIELD CURVE: as of this morning 1.50
    • Unchanged from prior day’s trading 

MACRO DATA POINTS (Bloomberg Estimates):

  • 7am: MBA Mortgage Apps., week of May 11 (prior 1.7%)
  • 8:30am: Housing Starts, Apr., est. 685k (prior 654k)
  • 8:30am: Housing Starts (M/m) Apr., est. 4.7% (prior -5.8%)
  • 8:30am: Building Permits, Apr., est. 730k (prior 764k, revised)
  • 8:30am: Building Permits (M/m) Apr., est. -4.5% (prior 4.5%)
  • 8:30am: ECB monetary policy conference; participants include President Mario Draghi
  • 9:15am: Industrial Prod., Apr., est. 0.6% (prior 0.0%)
  • 9:15am: Capacity Util., Apr., est. 79.0% (prior 78.6%)
  • 9:15am: Manufacturing (SIC) Production, Apr
  • 10:30am: DOE Inventories
  • 12:30pm: Fed’s Bullard speaks on economy in Kentucky
  • 2pm: Minutes of April FOMC Meeting 

GOVERNMENT:

    • House, Senate in session:
    • Senate Health holds hearing on health care delivery systems, with Coastal Medical, Humana officials, 10am
    • Senate Commerce holds oversight hearing on FCC, with Chairman Julius Genachowski, 2:30pm
    • House Financial Services subcommittee holds hearing on effects of Dodd-Frank Act, 10am
    • House Ways and Means panel holds hearing on tax-exempt organizations, 10am
    • House Financial Services subcommittee holds hearing on market access for U.S. financial firms in China, 2pm
    • House Financial Services panel holds hearing on FDIC oversight with Lennar Corp. CEO Stuart Miller, 2pm
    • House Small Business holds hearing on U.S. trade agenda, 1pm
    • World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at Economic Club of Washington, 12pm 

WHAT TO WATCH:

  • FOMC releases minutes of April 24-25 meeting
  • Facebook said to increase size of IPO to 421m shrs
  • Housing starts in U.S. probably rebounded from five-month low
  • Euro-region inflation slowed in April, March exports dropped
  • U.K. unemployment unexpectedly falls in sign of stabilization
  • Greek leaders meet on new election after European stocks fall
  • Carlyle said to seek $3.5 billion for fourth Asia buyout fund
  • Berkshire Hathaway took new stakes in Viacom, General Motors
  • Verizon in $63 billion faceoff with AT&T over family plans
  • Investor Whitworth holds $610m PepsiCo stake, meets w/ co.
  • GE to buy U.S., Australian mining-equipment cos.
  • Australian consumer confidence stagnates near year’s lows
  • Soros, Eton Park raised gold ETP holdings before price drops
  • House Financial Services subcommittee holds hearing on effects of Dodd-Frank Act
  • NYSE Euronext removed from bidding for London Metals Exchange
  • EADS 1Q profit misses est.; raises 2012 EPS outlook 

EARNINGS:

    • Staples (SPLS) 6am, $0.30
    • ValueVision (VVTV) 6:30am, ($0.19)
    • Chico’s FAS (CHS) 6:55am, $0.30
    • Deere & Co (DE) 7am, $2.53
    • Abercrombie & Fitch Co (ANF) 7am, $0.01
    • Sears Canada (SCC CN) 7am, C$0.03
    • Target (TGT) 7:30, $1.01
    • Brady (BRC) 8am, $0.57
    • Eagle Materials (EXP) 8:30am, $0.24
    • Hot Topic (HOTT) 4pm, $0.08
    • Ltd Brands (LTD) 4:30pm, $0.40
    • Ctrip.com (CTRP) 5pm, $0.17
    • Netease.com (NTES) 6pm, $1.01 

COMMODITY/GROWTH EXPECTATION (HEADLINES FROM BLOOMBERG)

 

COMMODITIES – definitely seeing some capitulation in Bernanke’s Bubbles (our Top Macro Theme issued in April) – Gold finally oversold at -14% from its YTD high; Copper getting spanked -1.7% to immediate-term oversold (-12% from its Feb Growth Slowing high). 

  • Commodities Drop Near Five-Month Low on Greek Euro Exit Concern
  • Gold Eclipsed by Dollar Haven as Goldman Sees Rally: Commodities
  • Palm Oil Slumps Most in 14 Months in Record Volume on Euro Debt
  • BHP Won’t Meet $80 Billion Spending Target as Minerals Fall
  • Gold Tumbles Into Bear Market on Concern Greece May Leave Euro
  • Copper Drops for Fourth Day as Greece Remains Without Government
  • Corn Declines as U.S. Planting Nears Completion, Lowering Risks
  • Sugar Falls as Brazil’s Weaker Currency May Accelerate Exports
  • NYSE Euronexit Is Removed From Bidding for London Metal Exchange
  • Crude Palm-Oil Futures Volume Reaches Record 63,019 Contracts
  • Soros, Eton Park Raised Gold ETP Holdings Before Price Drop
  • Seaway No Guarantee for Goldman’s WTI-Brent Bet: Energy Markets
  • Eni Follows BG, Anadarko With More Gas Finds off Eastern Africa
  • Inmet Capitalizes on Junk Demand for Copper Mine: Canada Credit
  • GSCI Index Decline to Near Five-Month Low
  • Oil Drops to Six-Month Low on Rising Stockpiles, Greek Crisis
  • Rubber Falls to Four-Month Low as Greek Woes May Cut Demand

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CURRENCIES


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EUROPEAN MARKETS


EUROPE – we don’t see Greece “leaving the Euro” anytime soon (pundits might, but the market doesn’t either or the Euro would catch a bid – weakest stores (countries) stay in the currency base and Euro goes to $1.22); what we do see is capitulation (immediate-term) to oversold lows in Spain and Russia this morning (crashing markets, down -26% and -22% from their YTD tops).

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ASIAN MARKETS


JAPAN – probably the most misunderstood and under-reported situation in the world right now is Japan (Nikkei down 21 of the last 28 days = -14.2% draw-down) and the BOJ just saw the lowest demand (1st shortfall vs the 600B they wanted to issue) for JGBs since Oct 2010. Greece is nothing compared to this.

 

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MIDDLE EAST


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The Hedgeye Macro Team