Monday, July 8, 2019

SPX, DJI, NDX Decline for Second Day as BA, AAPL Move Lower...WDC, MU Bounce...


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The oft repeated narrative today infers that stocks closed lower for the second straight day as investor hopes for deep rate cuts fade.  Really?  BA and AAPL accounted for 53% of the point decline in the DJIA on Tuesday.  Do you really think selling today in BA or AAPL is due to hopes fading for rate cuts?  Really?

The DJIA, closed down 115 points at 26,806led by weakness in BA, AAPL, MMM, GS and UTX.  Closing above 26,000 above for the twentieth straight day. 

Five of eleven sectors were higher on Monday, led by real estate XLRE +0.37% and utilities XLU +0.15%. 

SPY down 1.64 at 296.82 on 45.8 million shares, 21% below average volume.  Down on lower volume.
VIX up .68 at 13.96
Oil down .16 at 57.57
TLT up .18 at 132.61 on 6.4 million shares. 

NKE +1.91%, PG +0.80%, led the DJIA, 10 advancers, 0
EIX +3.14%, BHGE +2.61% and ZBH +2.45%, led the SPX.
WDC +2.78%, MU +2.51%, SYMC +2.44% and ULTA +2.24% led the NDX.

Long term up trend intact.  3-day short term trend is sideways.

Up:
Down: DIA, SPY, QQQ, IWM,

Breadth weakened on Monday, as decliners led 1,844 to 1,030 on the NYSE and led 2,174 to 923 on the NASDAQ

The SPY MFC green line is pointed up in the upper zone at 96 and is short-term bullish

Uptrend sectorsXLP, XLY, XLK, XLB, XLRE, XLU, XLI, XLC, XLV, XLF,
Neutral sectors:  XLE,
Down trend sectors:

The 6-month intermediate trend is up.  The ten-day trend is up.

3-month Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up
3-day Short Term Market TrendSideways


23 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Monday.

87 NDX stocks are above their 30 DMA:  PEP, CERN, CTAS, CHTR, IDXX, XRAY, TTWO, MELI, MDLZ, WLTW, AMGN, COST, HAS, ILMN, SBUX, VRSN, EXPE, FISV, INTU, PCAR, PYPL, SNPS, LBTYA, MSFT, MXIM, ROST, BKNG, CTSH, EBAY, GILD, ISRG, MAR, AAPL, ADI, AMZN, CDNS, DLTR, INTC, WBA, CTXS, UAL, AAL, ATVI, LULU, SIRI, FB, TSLA, VRTX, ADBE, INCY, SYMC, AMAT, ASML, AVGO, JD, KLAC, MCHP, NFLX, NVDA, NXPI, SWKS, TXN, WYNN, XLNX, ALXN, KHC, MNST, QCOM, WDC, MYL, AMD, CTRP, MU, ADP, CHKP, FOXA, JBHT, VRSK, CSX, ADSK, CMCSA, GOOGL, WDAY, CSCO, ORLY, ADP, TMUS, ULTA,

NDX Stocks to Watch on Tuesday:
Moving Above 30 DMA = 0


Moving Below 30 DMA = 7
BIDU, BIIB, FAST, HSIC, LRCX, NTAP, NTES,

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2 comments:

Scott Avery said...

Good point about AAPL and BA hoping for rate cuts! Very clear/helpful.

Dave Johnson said...

I really wonder if they actually look at the data or if they simply use a magic 8 ball to tell them what to write on a given day. :-) DJ