Thursday, 20 July 2017

Nifty Dragged By 0.33% Despite Positive Global Cues Amid Concern Of Stretched Valuation; Govt’s Tussle With RBI For CPI Forecast & Rate Cuts And Increasing Tension At Ind-China LOC (Sikkim)



Market Wrap: 20/07/2017 (17:00)

NSE-NF (July): 9887 (-32; -0.33%) (TTM PE: 24.99; Near 2 SD of 25; Avg PE: 20; TTM EPS: 395; NS: 9873)

NSE-BNF (July): 24243 (+35; +0.14%) (TTM PE: 30.46; Near 3 SD of 30; Avg PE: 20 TTM EPS: 795; BNS: 24213)

For 21/07/2017:

Key support for NF: 9870-9820

Key resistance for NF: 9960/9985-10005

Key support for BNF: 24250/24150-24000/23900

Key resistance for BNF: 24350-24500


Time & Price action suggests that, NF has to sustain over 10005 area for further rally towards 10050-10115 & 10195-10250 in the short term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 9985-9960 area, NF may fall towards 9905/9870-9820 & 9760- 9715 area in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Similarly, BNF has to sustain over 24350 area for further rally towards 24500-24700 & 24875-25050 area in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 24250 area, BNF may fall towards 24150/24000-23900 & 23700-23500 area in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Nifty Fut (July) today closed around 9886, almost 32 points down after making an opening minutes high of 9929 and late day low of 9866 in a range bound day of trading; but it underperform the Asian/Global market today as almost all of them were in green tracking overnight positive US cues and some fall in EUR & JPY.

The primary reasons for this underperformance may be subdued earnings from some pivotal companies and concern of stretched valuations. Kotak bank & Bajaj Auto report card today me be below market estimate.

Also, there was some report that Govt may forecast far lower inflation than earlier RBI estimate citing various macro economic factors and good monsoon and might also blame the central bank for its consistent failure of inflation forecasting and more rate cuts opportunities.

It’s clear that, now Govt may put more pressure on the RBI to cut drastically, more than the token 0.25% once or twice in a year; expectations may be that, in line with the underlying CPI, which is hovering now around 1.54%; at 1.25% RRI (neutral rate), the RBI repo rate should be around 3-5% (assuming average CPI 2-4%) instated of the 6.25% or 6% (if RBI cut 0.25% in Aug).

But, any drastic cut may devalue INR more and may also bring blood bath in the Indian high yield bond markets, paving panic exit for the FPIS both from bond as well as EQ market.

Another factor may be the ongoing Ind-China tension at Sikkim LOC, which may turn serious at any point of time despite best effort being made by India for a diplomatic solution; but China is firm in its stand that until & unless India removes its soldiers from there, there will be no fruitful talks. All these may have kept the Indian market sentiment in depress today.

Indian market (Nifty Fut), today opened around 9928, almost unchanged tracking flat global/Asian cues ahead of BOJ Kuroda’s presser; BOJ has hold its monetary policy (unchanged) as expected with a virtual admission to defeat in deflation.

Indian market may now focus on RIL & other Q1 earnings trajectory and also on the ongoing legal tussles of NPA/IBC cases, which may take significant time frame for any actual resolution. 

As par some report, TTSL (Tata Tele Services), which has already a loan of around Rs.40000 cr including Rs.8000 cr of telecom spectrum deferred payment, is now seeking another Rs.5000 cr fresh loan to fund its capex requirement; but the banks are now refusing to grant fresh loans and planning for some CDR (corporate debt restructuring); corporate stressed B/S may be a major issues for Indian economy and private capex; only Govt capex is now stimulating the economy.

Indian banks now need huge capital as excess provisions & hair cut (waive off) obligations for this mammoth NPA and thus, there is significant risk of future equity & EPS dilution on poor visibility of the underlying credit growth.

Today Nifty was supported by Axis Bank (digital push & search for a new CEO, who may be more pro-active), ONGC (favourable merger with HPCL), HDFC Bank (deleveraging push).

Nifty was today dragged by metals (Tata Steel), Pharma, IT (INFY) FMCG (ITC), PSBS (SBI/BOB) & RIL (ahead of result today, which came slightly above estimates after market hours); overall nearly 80% of the Nifty constituents were in red today.

Looking ahead, Nifty Fut (July) has to sustain above 9870-9820 area; otherwise expect more fall. For any rally from here, it need to break above 9960-9985 & 10005 zone.

Elsewhere, Australia (ASX-200) was closed in moderate green at around 5761 (+0.50%) as AUDUSD retraced from the 0.80 levels after an upbeat AU jobs report today. Apart from some drops in AUD, upbeat guidance from an oil & gas co (Santos) has also helped the market today.

Japan (Nikkei-225) closed around 20145, up by 0.63% as Yen slipped against USD; also an upbeat export data (+9.7% gains for June) and some optimism about energy related shares may have supported the JP market today.

China (SSE) closed around 3240, almost up by 0.30% after PBOC today injected a net 60 bln Yuan; apart from PBOC support, upbeat metal/iron ore prices because of strong China GDP data may be also supporting the overall market sentiment.

Hong Kong (HKG-33) closed around 26740, up by almost 0.30% following overall positive global cues amid some drop in EUR & Yen.

EURUSD Is Blasting Above 1.16 And Marching Towards 1.18 As Market Does Not Believe In Draghi’s Dovish Script; Stocks Plunged After Surge In EUR Combined With Increasing US Political Risks:

EURUSD is now trading around 1.1635, almost up by 0.90% after making a HOD of 1.1661 so far (23 months high) on signal of QT talk by Draghi, who indirectly hinted that ECB will discuss the future of the QE at one of its next two meetings.

Today ECB stayed pat as expected; it has also made no change in its official statement that ECB is ready to increase the size & duration of QE, if required. Earlier there was some speculation that the reference of this “size & duration” may be omitted, but it was not and thus initially EURUSD plunged to almost 1.1487.

But at the presser (Q&A), although Draghi may have tried his best to sound like a dove, keeping in mind the strength of EUR, the overall statement, Q&A may be enough for the market to believe that a gradual ECB QE tapering signal is indeed coming, be it at the next month’s Jackson Hall Symposium or at the next Sep’17 meeting; basically, market today does not believe in Draghi’s dovish script despite his best effort.

Draghi basically encourages more structural reforms in EZ to keep the economy going rather than through excessive dependence on monetary stimulus (QE).

Overall, it seems that Draghi/ECB may be preparing itself to signal a coordinated QE tapering in the Aug Jackson Hall Symposium along with Fed and other major G-10 central banks to avoid a disorderly market movement.

Technically, EURUSD may now face some resistance around 1.17090-1.17465 and beyond that the area of 1.1810 is now clearly visible; immediate support is now around 1.16240-1.16090.

Meanwhile stocks are plunging as a result of strong EUR, Draghi’s indirect QT hint and some adverse report that US special prosecutor (Muller) may extend his probe into Trump business & financial transactions apart from the Russian link investigations; US political jitters may turn ugly in the coming days and that may be the only excuse for the Fed and also ECB to scale back/delay their QE tapering talk.



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https://www.iforex.in/news/eurusd-blasting-above-116-and-marching-towards-118-market-does-not-believe-draghi%E2%80%99s-dovish-script-39017

https://www.iforex.in/news/asia-trading-upbeat-strength-usd-after-boj-stays-pat-lowers-inflation-projection-expected-38959

https://www.iforex.in/news/usd-got-boost-amid-confused-neutral-boj-thriving-elusive-inflation-38975

 

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