Friday, June 12, 2015

Weekly Scoreboard*

Indices
  • S&P 500 2,095.17 +.09%
  • DJIA 17,904.60 +.32%
  • NASDAQ 5,051.53 -.30%
  • Russell 2000 1,265.10 +.31%
  • S&P 500 High Beta 34.59 -.43%
  • Goldman 50 Most Shorted 144.97 +.04% 
  • Wilshire 5000 21,963.50 +.10%
  • Russell 1000 Growth 1,004.93 -.09%
  • Russell 1000 Value 1,028.60 +.26%
  • S&P 500 Consumer Staples 491.38 +.86%
  • Solactive US Cyclical 136.80 -.38%
  • Morgan Stanley Technology 1,041.96 -.46%
  • Transports 8,417.41 -1.1%
  • Utilities 560.99 -.36%
  • Bloomberg European Bank/Financial Services 118.24 +.37%
  • MSCI Emerging Markets 40.44 +.09%
  • HFRX Equity Hedge 1,220.97 -.31%
  • HFRX Equity Market Neutral 988.86 +.35%
Sentiment/Internals
  • NYSE Cumulative A/D Line 237,328 -.20%
  • Bloomberg New Highs-Lows Index -3 +175
  • Bloomberg Crude Oil % Bulls 23.1 +12.09%
  • CFTC Oil Net Speculative Position 339,518 -2.43%
  • CFTC Oil Total Open Interest 1,651,449 +2.30%
  • Total Put/Call 1.04 +.97%
  • OEX Put/Call .90 +26.32%
  • ISE Sentiment 106.0 +16.49%
  • NYSE Arms 1.70 +135.80%
  • Volatility(VIX) 13.76 -2.39%
  • S&P 500 Implied Correlation 61.0 -5.67%
  • G7 Currency Volatility (VXY) 10.35 +.58%
  • Emerging Markets Currency Volatility (EM-VXY) 9.36 -2.70%
  • Smart Money Flow Index 17,374.89 +.08%
  • ICI Money Mkt Mutual Fund Assets $2.610 Trillion -.29%
  • ICI US Equity Weekly Net New Cash Flow -$4.218 Billion
  • AAII % Bulls 20.0 -26.7%
  • AAII % Bears 32.6 +32.3%
Futures Spot Prices
  • CRB Index 223.53 +.45%
  • Crude Oil 59.96 +1.89%
  • Reformulated Gasoline 212.89 +4.74%
  • Natural Gas 2.75 +6.09%
  • Heating Oil 188.67 +1.20%
  • Gold 1,179.70 +.63%
  • Bloomberg Base Metals Index 166.83 -.55%
  • Copper 267.95 -.83%
  • US No. 1 Heavy Melt Scrap Steel 231.67 USD/Ton unch.
  • China Iron Ore Spot 65.13 USD/Ton +1.06%
  • Lumber 294.50 +1.10%
  • UBS-Bloomberg Agriculture 1,064.96 -1.59%
Economy
  • ECRI Weekly Leading Economic Index Growth Rate .9% -10.0 basis points
  • Philly Fed ADS Real-Time Business Conditions Index .0432 -4.43%
  • S&P 500 Blended Forward 12 Months Mean EPS Estimate 125.11 +.14%
  • Citi US Economic Surprise Index -33.0 +14.9 points
  • Citi Eurozone Economic Surprise Index 4.70 -1.3 points
  • Citi Emerging Markets Economic Surprise Index -15.80 +5.7 points
  • Fed Fund Futures imply 56.0% chance of no change, 44.0% chance of 25 basis point cut on 6/17
  • US Dollar Index 94.99 -1.45%
  • Euro/Yen Carry Return Index 145.1 -.32%
  • Yield Curve 166.0 -3.0 basis points
  • 10-Year US Treasury Yield 2.38% -2.0 basis points
  • Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet $4.429 Trillion +.05%
  • U.S. Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swap 16.51 +2.03%
  • Illinois Municipal Debt Credit Default Swap 223.0 -.90%
  • Western Europe Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swap Index 23.08 -.45%
  • Asia Pacific Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swap Index 60.92 -1.30%
  • Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt CDS Index 319.04 +3.55%
  • Israel Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swap 65.50 -.62%
  • Iraq Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swap 675.24 +2.08%
  • Russia Sovereign Debt Credit Default Swap 348.82 -.13%
  • iBoxx Offshore RMB China Corporates High Yield Index 120.26 +.12%
  • 10-Year TIPS Spread 1.86% -2.0 basis points
  • TED Spread 28.0 +1.0 basis point
  • 2-Year Swap Spread 27.25 +2.5 basis points
  • 3-Month EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap -20.25 -1.0 basis point
  • N. America Investment Grade Credit Default Swap Index 67.56 +.93%
  • America Energy Sector High-Yield Credit Default Swap Index 1,571.0 +35.58%
  • European Financial Sector Credit Default Swap Index 78.32 +1.51%
  • Emerging Markets Credit Default Swap Index 312.91 +1.82%
  • CMBS AAA Super Senior 10-Year Treasury Spread  to Swaps 87.50 unch.
  • M1 Money Supply $2.964 Trillion -.89%
  • Commercial Paper Outstanding 965.10 +2.20%
  • 4-Week Moving Average of Jobless Claims 278,750 +4,000
  • Continuing Claims Unemployment Rate 1.7% +10 basis points
  • Average 30-Year Mortgage Rate 4.04% +17 basis points
  • Weekly Mortgage Applications 400.50 +8.39%
  • Bloomberg Consumer Comfort 40.1 -.4 point
  • Weekly Retail Sales +1.20% -60.0 basis points
  • Nationwide Gas $2.79/gallon +.03/gallon
  • Baltic Dry Index 642.0 +3.11%
  • China (Export) Containerized Freight Index 851.40 -1.24%
  • Oil Tanker Rate(Arabian Gulf to U.S. Gulf Coast) 35.0 -6.7%
  • Rail Freight Carloads 281,315 +13.81%
Best Performing Style
  • Small-Cap Value +.5%
Worst Performing Style
  • Mid-Cap Growth -.1%
Leading Sectors
  • Insurance +1.9%
  • Homebuilders +1.5%
  • Banks +1.5%
  • Steel +1.2%
  • Foods +1.1%
Lagging Sectors
  • Semis -1.7% 
  • Gold & Silver -1.8%
  • Oil Tankers -3.0%
  • Gaming -4.9%
  • Coal -8.0%
Weekly High-Volume Stock Gainers (23)
  • ISLE, HCC, LOXO, SIGM, TBRA, RCPT, ZOES, FLXN, MXL, KKD, LLY, NWBO, IXYS, DMND, WETF, HLS, FOLD, DWRE, AZZ, OXM, BOX, FRSH and IDT
Weekly High-Volume Stock Losers (18)
  • LC, NRZ, THO, CTRE, SNH, WGO, IRWD, BURL, AVID, NEM, NEWM, ESL, LE, FRAN, VNCE, ZUMZ, ESPR and SHLD
Weekly Charts
ETFs
Stocks
*5-Day Change

Stocks Falling into Afternoon on Greece Debt Deal Worries, Rising Eurozone/Emerging Markets/US HIgh-Yield Debt Angst, Oil Drop, Biotech/Gaming Sector Weakness

Broad Equity Market Tone:
  • Advance/Decline Line: Lower
  • Sector Performance: Almost Every Sector Declining
  • Volume: Below Average
  • Market Leading Stocks: Performing In Line
Equity Investor Angst:
  • Volatility(VIX) 13.65 +6.38%
  • Euro/Yen Carry Return Index 145.36 +.16%
  • Emerging Markets Currency Volatility(VXY) 9.36 -.21%
  • S&P 500 Implied Correlation 61.03 +1.45%
  • ISE Sentiment Index 107.0 +72.58%
  • Total Put/Call 1.10 +32.53%
  • NYSE Arms 2.06 +82.89% 
Credit Investor Angst:
  • North American Investment Grade CDS Index 67.40 +2.44%
  • America Energy Sector High-Yield CDS Index 1,576.0 +2.61%
  • European Financial Sector CDS Index 78.32 +2.19%
  • Western Europe Sovereign Debt CDS Index 25.69 +11.3%
  • Asia Pacific Sovereign Debt CDS Index 62.23 +2.17%
  • Emerging Market CDS Index 312.67 +.91%
  • iBoxx Offshore RMB China Corporates High Yield Index 120.25 -.01%
  • 2-Year Swap Spread 27.25 +1.25 basis points
  • TED Spread 28.0 unch.
  • 3-Month EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap -20.25 +.5 basis point
Economic Gauges:
  • 3-Month T-Bill Yield .01% unch.
  • Yield Curve 166.0 -1.0 basis point
  • China Import Iron Ore Spot $65.13/Metric Tonne -.73%
  • Citi US Economic Surprise Index -33.0 +4.7 points
  • Citi Eurozone Economic Surprise Index 4.7 -.4 point
  • Citi Emerging Markets Economic Surprise Index -15.80 +5.0 points
  • 10-Year TIPS Spread 1.86 unch.
Overseas Futures:
  • Nikkei 225 Futures: Indicating -78 open in Japan 
  • China A50 Futures: Indicating -33 open in China
  • DAX Futures: Indicating -19 open in Germany
Portfolio: 
  • Slightly Lower: On losses in my biotech/medical/tech sector longs 
  • Disclosed Trades: Added to my (IWM)/(QQQ) hedges
  • Market Exposure: Moved to 25% Net Long

Bear Radar

Style Underperformer:
  • Large-Cap Value -.83%
Sector Underperformers:
  • 1) Coal -3.62% 2) Gaming -1.92% 3) Energy -1.31%
Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume:
  • AGIO, SNY, KMI, NWE, SHLD, LOXO, CMP, AHGP, SPH, VIMC, LLY, XONE, ZSPH, DDC, BOX, MPAA, ESPR, AER, E, AVID, CHRS, DBVT, JCI, NTCT, USLV and AGIO
Stocks With Unusual Put Option Activity:
  • 1) EWG 2) XLU 3) RH 4) CNX 5) GREK
Stocks With Most Negative News Mentions:
  • 1) AET 2) GMCR 3) PBR 4) AZZ 5) SUNE
Charts:

Bull Radar

Style Outperformer:
  • Small-Cap Growth -.31%
Sector Outperformers:
  • 1) Airlines +1.22% 2) Homebuilders +.14% 3) Restaurants +.08%
Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume:
  • ZPIN, FOLD, XNET, DSKY, TEDU, KNDI, AMBA, SUPN and LL
Stocks With Unusual Call Option Activity:
  • 1) CSC 2) EXEL 3) NFX 4) OCN 5) VRX
Stocks With Most Positive News Mentions:
  • 1) BOBE 2) WSM 3) CTRX 4) DRI 5) MNST
Charts:

Morning Market Internals

NYSE Composite Index:

Friday Watch

Evening Headlines 
Bloomberg: 
  • Greece Ordered to Stop Gambling With its Future as Endgame Nears. Greece was told to stop fighting creditors’ demands and sign a deal that will avert a default and exit from the euro. Diplomatic niceties evaporated in Brussels as European Union President Donald Tusk rebuked Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for dragging his feet on a debt agreement and the International Monetary Fund’s team walked out of negotiations. One official said after a four-hour meeting of EU government staffers that Greece was given less than 24 hours to come back with firm proposals to end the impasse. “There is no more time for gambling,” Tusk told reporters in Brussels on Thursday. “The day is coming, I am afraid, that someone says the game is over.”  
  • Keeping Greece in the Euro May Have Nothing to Do With Finances. A bronze statue of Harry S. Truman stands unguarded in the side of a busy Athens road, a reminder of Greece’s post-World War II position as a strategic bulwark for the U.S. and Europe. If euro-area policy makers overcome their frustration over Greek financial brinkmanship and cough up more aid, it will be in no small part because of that role.
  • There They Go Again: Asia Central Bank Policies Spur Bubbles. Recent years have seen reams of research on the role of central banks in inflating asset-price bubbles. The latest developments in Asia suggest that more may be coming. With interest-rate cuts in New Zealand and South Korea, and the potential for more easing in Australia and China, policy makers are fanning the risk of bubbles a decade after their U.S. counterparts oversaw a record mortgage boom. The central bank of New Zealand Thursday lowered interest rates even in the face of a booming property market in the nation’s largest city. South Korea followed suit, potentially encouraging gains in household debt levels that are already at a record. The Reserve Bank of Australia governor Wednesday said he may lower rates again, even as he wrung his hands over what he dubbed as “crazy” Sydney house prices.
  • Only in China Can Riskiest Provincial Debt Get Best Yield. Ranking provinces by their fiscal and economic strengths puts Jilin at the bottom and Tianjin at the top. In China’s bond market, that’s a waste of time. Jilin is the riskiest among the nation’s 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, according to a Bloomberg analysis of their debt and the potential to repay using taxes and land sales. It issued three-year notes Thursday at 2.87 percent, matching the similar-maturity sovereign yield. Tianjin also sold at a zero premium three days earlier.  
  • War-Weary Ukraine Shutters Cash-Starved Banks as Trust Plummets. As if fighting a year-long war against pro-Russian separatists wasn’t enough, Ukraine is also scrambling to shore up a banking system that’s bleeding assets amid skyrocketing inflation, a tumbling economy and wavering talks with creditors about overdue debt. A run of liquidations has shaken consumers’ confidence in the often mismanaged financial institutions they once trusted to protect their money.
  • Asian Currencies Drop This Week Amid Stock Outflows, MERS Risk. Asian currencies dropped, led by the Philippine peso, as funds pulled money from emerging markets on signs the U.S. is moving closer to raising interest rates. Overseas investors sold a net $1.5 billion of stocks in Taiwan, South Korea and India since June 5, exchange data show. The Federal Reserve reviews borrowing costs next week as data suggests the world’s largest economy is emerging from a first-quarter slowdown. The Bank of Korea said the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome posed a threat to consumption as it cut its benchmark rate to a record low on Thursday.
  • Asian Stocks Rise Third Day on U.S. Economy Optimism, Weaker Yen. Asian stocks rose for a third day after data on retail sales bolstered confidence in the strength of the U.S. economy and a weaker yen sent Japanese shares higher. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index gained 0.2 percent to 147.81 as of 9:01 a.m. in Tokyo, headed for a 0.1 percent decline this week. Japan’s Topix index added 0.2 percent after the yen slid 0.6 percent against the dollar Thursday.
Wall Street Journal:
MarketWatch.com: 
Zero Hedge: 
Business Insider:
Telegraph:
Evening Recommendations 
  • None of note
Night Trading
  • Asian equity indices are -.25% to +.25% on average.
  • Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 109.0 unch.
  • Asia Pacific Sovereign CDS Index 61.0 -.75 basis point.
  • S&P 500 futures -.20%.
  • NASDAQ 100 futures -.16%.

Earnings of Note
Company/Estimate
  • None of note
Economic Releases
8:30 am EST
  • PPI Final Demand for May is estimated to rise +.4% versus a -.4% decline in April.
  • PPI Ex Food and Energy for May is estimated to rise +.1% versus a -.2% decline in April.
10:00 am EST
  • Preliminary Univ. of Michigan Consumer Sentiment for June is estimated to rise to 91.2 versus 90.7 in May.
Upcoming Splits
  • (ROST) 2-for-1
Other Potential Market Movers
  • The German CPI report, Russell preliminary rebalancing list and the (CNC) investor day could also impact trading today.
BOTTOM LINE: Asian indices are mostly lower, weighed down by technology and commodity shares in the region. I expect US stocks to open mixed and to weaken into the afternoon, finishing modestly lower. The Portfolio is 50% net long heading into the day.