Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Stocks Surging into Final Hour on US Economic Optimism, Declining US Covid Cases, Oil Gain, Tech/Financial Sector Strength

Broad Equity Market Tone:

  • Advance/Decline Line: Higher
  • Sector Performance: Almost Every Sector Rising
  • Volume: Around Average
  • Market Leading Stocks: Outperforming
Equity Investor Angst:
  • Volatility(VIX) 20.8 -9.6%
  • Bloomberg Global Risk On/Risk Off Index 3,007.0 +240.0 points
  • Euro/Yen Carry Return Index 133.42 +.31%
  • Emerging Markets Currency Volatility(VXY) 8.9 +.2%
  • S&P 500 Implied Correlation 56.1 -1.0%
  • ISE Sentiment Index 93.0  -8.0 points
  • Total Put/Call .83 -15.3%
  • NYSE Arms .77 +20.3%
Credit Investor Angst:
  • North American Investment Grade CDS Index 53.20 +.01%
  • US Energy High-Yield OAS 375.93 -.74%
  • European Financial Sector CDS Index 57.28 -1.11%
  • Italian/German 10Y Yld Spread 105.0 +1.0 basis point
  • Asia Ex-Japan Investment Grade CDS Index 88.75 +4.8%
  • Emerging Market CDS Index 182.48 -.66%
  • China Corp. High-Yield Bond USD ETF(KHYB) 35.91 -1.31%
  • 2-Year Swap Spread 10.0 +.5 basis point
  • TED Spread 9.5 -.75 basis point
  • 3-Month EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap -16.25 +.25 basis point
  • MBS  5/10 Treasury Spread  71.25 +.75 basis point
  • IHS Markit CMBX BBB- 6 71.5 unch.
Economic Gauges:
  • Bloomberg Emerging Markets Currency Index 58.78 -.14%
  • 3-Month T-Bill Yield .03% unch.
  • Yield Curve 121.0 unch.
  • China Iron Ore Spot 117.65 USD/Metric Tonne +1.3%
  • Citi US Economic Surprise Index -14.6 +5.8 points
  • Citi Eurozone Economic Surprise Index -54.1 +.5 point
  • Citi Emerging Markets Economic Surprise Index .6 -1.1 points
  • 10-Year TIPS Spread 2.45 +6.0 basis points
  • 100.0% chance of no change at Dec. 15th meeting, 97.6% chance of no change at Jan. 26th meeting
US Covid-19:
  • 221 new infections/100K people(last 7 days total) -8/100K people
  • 42% of Jan. 7th, 2021 peak(highest daily avg. new infections) -1.0 percentage point
Overseas Futures:
  • Nikkei 225 Futures: Indicating +488 open in Japan 
  • China A50 Futures: Indicating -368 open in China
  • DAX Futures: Indicating -14 open in Germany
Portfolio:
  • Higher: On gains in my tech/medical/industrial/consumer discretionary/commodity sector longs
  • Disclosed Trades:  Covered some of my (IWM)/(QQQ) hedges, took profits in some biotech longs and added some commodity longs
  • Market Exposure: Moved to 100% Net Long

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