Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Annual Core CPI Drops to 4.3% as Expected and SPX Closes Higher...Utilities, Consumer Discretionary Lead Sectors...Mega Caps Bounce...


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The SPX +5.54 bounced after the CPI report, traded in a volatile range and closed higher.  The SPX remained above the high of the low day.

Breadth was mixed on Wednesday and was modestly stronger.

QQQ, SPY closed modestly higher in their intermediate term trend continuation bounce patterns.

CPI report:  Core Y/Y 4.3% vs. 4.3% expected M/M 0.3% vs. 0.02 % expected.

PPI and Retails Sales reports Thursday, BMO.


Mega caps AMZN, TSLA, NVDA, MSFT, META, GOOGL rose and AAPL fell on Wednesday.


SPY up .52 at 446.51, on 60.1 million shares, below average volume, closed higher on lower volume.  
VIX down .75 at 13.48
QQQ up 1.42 at 374.21


MSFT, HON, GS, WBA led the DJIA, 14 advancers, -2
JBHT, DVA, CRL, WAT led the SPX, 202 advancers
MRNA, SNPS, AMZN, AMD led the NDX, 54 advancers.

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

Up:  QQQ, SPY,
DownDIA, IWM,

Six of eleven sectors were higher on Wednesday, led by XLU, XLY and XLC.

The SPY MFC green line turned up at 52.1 and is short-term bullishSPY gapped lower, rallied, filled the gap and closed lower.


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

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

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


54 of 100 NDX stocks closed higher on Wednesday.

51 NDX stocks are above their 30 DMA:  CEG, FANG, CSCO, GOOGL, REGN, CTSH, ODFL, BKR, INTU, SGEN, VRSK, ADBE, CDNS, TEAM, WDAY, CTAS, MELI, PANW, SNPS, AMZN, INTC, MU, PDD, ANSS, ZM, ZS, CRWD, LULU, MSFT, ABNB, TSLA, TTD, AMGN, EXC, FTNT, TMUS, CHTR, COST, DDOG, GFS, META, HON, PYPL, AEP, CPRT, EA, EBAY, ISRG, MRNA, ON, PEP,

NDX Stocks to Watch on Thursday:
Moving Above 30 DMA = 8
AEP, CPRT, EA, EBAY, ISRG, MRNA, ON, PEP,



Moving Below 30 DMA = 6
BKNG, CSGP, MAR, NFLX, PCAR, ROST,




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