Friday, 28 July 2017

Nifty Closed Almost Flat But Well Off The Lows Helped By Infy & HDFC Amid Subdued Global Cues And Some Blue Chips Muted Earnings



Market Wrap: 28/07/2017 (19:30)

NSE-NF (Aug): 10039 (-24; -0.24%) (TTM PE: 25.35; Abv 2 SD of 25; Avg PE: 20; TTM EPS: 395; NS: 10015)

NSE-BNF (Aug): 24934 (-58; -0.23%) (TTM PE: 31.20; Abv 3 SD of 30; Avg PE: 20 TTM EPS: 795; BNS: 24811)

For 28/07/2017:

Key support for NF: 9955-9870

Key resistance for NF: 10075-10115

Key support for BNF: 24800-24650

Key resistance for BNF: 25050-25150

Hints for positional trading:

Time & Price action suggests that, NF has to sustain over 10075 area for further rally towards 10115-10150 & 10205-10275 in the short term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 10055 area, NF may fall towards 10000-9955 & 9870-9800 area in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Similarly, BNF has to sustain over 25050 area for further rally towards 25150-25275 & 25485 -25695 area in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 25000 area, BNF may fall towards 24800-24650 & 24350-24200 area in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Nifty Fut (Aug)/India-50 today closed around 10039, down by almost 0.24%, but well off the opening session low of 9990 and it made a late day high of 10053; Nifty Spot almost closed flat around 10015 (-0.06%).

Indian market (Nifty-Fut/India-50) today opened around 10011, almost gap down by 60 points tracking subdued global cues and some blue chip earnings disappointments; but it recovered quite smartly on brisk buying of Infy & HDFC in the last hour of trade.

Also, optimism from LIC about Indian equity market and its commitments of higher investments flashed in the last hour may have also supported the market today. LIC may be very interested to invest in bitten down PSBS as bargain hunting; as par LIC, PSBS now may have made full provisions for the stressed assets; thus the worst of NPA crisis may be over.

Indian Govt (commerce minister) today also announced that Govt may soon release a foreign trade policy review in Sep to stimulate the sluggish Indian product export and as par the Govt, GST is helping a lot for competitive exports.

As par the Dy FM, there is no evidence of any inflation due to implementation of GST and India’s tax base is also expanding rapidly after the GST. All these news/developments may have helped the Indian market today in the last hour of trade despite some muted report card published during the market hours.

After opening gap down, Indian market today covered some short and stabilized to some extent, but again came under sudden selling pressure, when news of removal of the Pak PM by the SC there came in; a politically unstable Pak and high probability of next military regime there may not be good for the ongoing Ind-Pak geo-political tensions at LOC.

Also, the suspended Pak PM may have cordial diplomatic relation with NAMO despite so much geo-political tensions and his removal may have also blocked the back channel diplomacy between the two warring neighbors and thus going ahead, we may see more war of bullets rather than words.

Overall, today Indian market was dragged by Pharma, select private banks & infra stocks, while broader market outperformed with midcap & small cap stocks. 

Today Nifty was supported by HDFC (earning optimism & demerger/IPO buzz of its Life Insurance subsidiary), Infy (buy back buzz ?), Yes Banks (earning optimism/ stock split), Idea (imminent merger with Vodafone and worst R-Jio impact may be over on the telecom sector), Kotak/Indusind Bank (analysts optimism as a prime beneficiary of DeMo-financial savings), ITC & ONGC. IT counters also recovered from day’s low tracking some recovery in USDINR and on bargain hunting.

Nifty was dragged by DRL (thumbs down by analysts after poor report card citing US pricing pressure and domestic issues of GST-destocking) & other Pharma counters such as Lupin, Sun/Auro Pharma, ICICI Bank (poor report card & elevated stressed assets), Axis Bank (in line report card, but acquiring a start up Free Charge with all cash transactions for customer data mining), L&T, HDFC Bank, Hindalco/Tata Steel (metals) and Infratel (adverse NSE observation regarding financial reporting regulations).

Looking ahead, al the eyes mat be on RBI next week as market is expected a 0.25% hike, which may have already discounted by the Banks & other rate sensitive sectors. But if there is no hike of RBI tone is very hawkish, then expect another sell off (hawkish cut).

Banks were in huge rally for the last few weeks; apart from earning optimism, hopes for a quick NPA resolution and RBI rate cuts, Govt’s plan to enhance the limit for FPIS in the corporate bond market and allowing it as collaterals against the RBI repo window borrowing (?) may be also responsible for this huge rally.

Globally, almost all the major Asian markets are in moderate to deep red tracking subdued global cues. Overnight US market (DJ-30), although closed 0.39% up on the strength of Verizon earnings, NASDAQ & broader market came into severe pressure; NASDAQ tumbled by almost 0.63% (- 40 points after recovering from -100 odd points). Verizon closed 7.7% higher yesterday and helped the DJ-30 to finish in green.

Yesterday, broader US market came into pressure after a well known & widely followed quant analyst predicted that VIX may be at the bottom & pointed out very low VIX volatility, which may be a similar sign of 1987 market crash; consequently tech & transportation shares were came under huge pressure and NASDAQ nosedived by more than 1%, before recovering almost half at the closing hours. 

Almost all the JPY crosses except USDJPY came into significant selling pressure, affecting the narrative of Yen carry trade, which may be a good contributor of risk-on trade.

Also, some of the tech report card from US yesterday may be disappointing, which may have also affected the US market sentiment amid ongoing political jitters. As NASDAQ has already rallied by almost 20% YTD, stretched valuation may be also a great concern. Amazon is in pressure after reporting slump in profits; the scrip is up by almost 40% YTD.

Although, USDJPY is down, Yen is up against almost all the G-20 currencies, affecting the export heavy Japanese market as well as the overall Asian market sentiment; Hong-Kong is also down due to plunge in tech shares. Also, growing political issues in Japan may be affecting the market sentiment there; today Defence minister resigns due to some alleged cover up of military documents related to UN peace keeping force.

Japanese Yen also got some strength after July BOJ minutes show discussion of QQE tapering among the BOJ policy makers and some upbeat economic data from Japan today; JP household/consumer spending, job application & unemployment and even retail sales data came strong; but inflation & core CPI is still subdued. 

Recently, an influential Abe adviser is trying to downplay the rhetoric of 2% inflation targeting by BOJ and emphasizing that job creation, wage growth may be far more important than stimulating higher inflation in the economy. In that sense, Abenomics may be quite successful. Thus, we may expect BOJ/Abe to also go for the global QT tunes in the months ahead to keep parity with USD & EUR.

USDJPY is almost flat ahead of US GDP report today on hopes of an upbeat figure (consensus 2.6% for Q2/QOQ) after strong durable goods order, trade balance & inventories data released yesterday. 

Almost all the analysts including Atlanta Fed has revised their GDP estimate by around 0.3% from 2.5% to 2.8% on an average; someone even predicting as high as 3.2%. A better than expected US GDP today may be good for USD (hawkish Fed narrative), but may not be good for risk trade.

Elsewhere, Australia (ASX-200) was closed around 5700, almost down by 1.50%, most probably on increasing political jitters there despite some fall in AUDUSD today. A key Govt coalition senate member has resigned today due to some dual citizen issue, which may be a bad news for the present AU Govt, as it enjoyed only 1 seat majority in the senate (AU parliament). 

Also, overnight tech panic in US market may be affecting the AU market today. Today’s PPI report from AU may be also negative for the AUD ahead of RBA meeting next week. RBA is expected to be neutral with some dovish comments about the strength of the currency, aiming to talk down a bit.

Japan (Nikkei-225) also closed in moderate red around 19955 (-0.60%), tracking broad strength in Yen after upbeat JP economic data & some hawkish stuffs in the BOJ minutes. Tech shares are also in pressure today in Japanese market.

China (SSE) also closed almost unchanged around 3250, following increasing concern of regulatory tightening & a strong Yuan; but being helped by China Next small caps to some extent on bargain hunting.

Hong-Kong (HKG-33) closed in moderate red around 27000 (-0.440%) tracking slump in tech shares and also driving the overall Asian sentiment including Indian market down.

Crude Oil (WTI) was almost flat around 48.95 (-0.18%) ahead of US oil rigs data later in the day today; recently oil is holding ground around $50 on OPEC/Saudi jawboning about reduction in exports & production, buzz of Venezuela supply reduction/US sanctions, hopes of faster rebalancing amid dips in US shale production and increasing demand from China, India, EU & USA. 

As par some reports, US shale production may be unviable at oil near $45 and thus we may see less US shale oil with price hovering around 45-50$; but due to superior technology, even a $40 oil may be turned viable in the days ahead.

Technically, whatever be the narratives, oil has to sustain over 49.75-50.00 area now for next leg of rally towards 52 zone; otherwise it may come down towards 48.15-47.25 & 46.65-45.50 zone again in the coming days.



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