Wednesday, August 9, 2023

SPX Closes Lower Again...CPI Thursday BMO 8:30 am ET...Defensive Sectors Energy, Real Estate Lead as Growth Sectors Lag as Mega Caps Decline...

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The SPX -31.67 continued to drift lower on Wednesday, after a series of unexpected announcements, over the past two weeks, from BOJ (yield curve), Fitch (US downgrade to AA+) and Moody’s downgrade of 10 smaller to mid-size banks combined with a negative EPS reaction to AAPL last Friday and China’s -14% drop in exports on Tuesday, as selling volume outweighed buying ahead of Thursday’s CPI report before the open.


Mega caps AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, TSLA, NVDA fell.


SPY down 3.00 at 445.75, on 71.3 million shares, average volume, down on higher volume.
VIX down .03 at 15.96
QQQ down 4.09 at 367.91,

DOW, HON, CAT, VZ led the DJIA, 9 advancers, -1
AXON, AKAM, FLT, CRL, FSLR led the SPX, 207 advancers
MRNA, FTNT, ENPH, IDXX led the NDX, 38 advancers.

The two-year trend term is sideways.  The one-year trend is up.

Up:
DownDIA, SPY, IWM, QQQ,

Four of eleven sectors were higher on Wednesday, led by XLE, XLRE and XLU. 

The SPY MFC green line is pointed down at 59.8 and is defensiveSPY opened flat and closed lower.

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

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

3-month Intermediate Term Market Trend: Up
3-day Short Term Market TrendDown a little


38 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Wednesday.

44 NDX stock are above their 30 DMA:  CEG, META, VRSK, ADBE, NXPI, COST, PDD, BKR, CSX, INTU, ROST, ODFL, ADP, CHTR, CMCSA, MAR, PAYX, BKNG, FANG, AMGN, PDD, KDP, CSCO, MRNA, JD,  INTC, MU, GOOGL, LRCX, AMAT, KLAC, REGN, AZN, MDLZ, CTSH, LULU, MELI, WBD, AMZN, GILD, TEAM, ILMN, MNST, PCAR, SGEN,

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



Moving Below 30 DMA = 8
ALGN, LCID, NFLX, NVDA, ON, SBUX, TTD, WDAY,





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