Thursday, 31 August 2017

Nifty May Open Edged Down Amid Mixed Global Cues & Renewed Concern On Govt’s “War On Black Money” Following Terrible RBI Report On DeMo; Focus May Be On GDP Today



Market Mantra: 31/08/2017 (09:00)

SGX-NF: 9860 (-20)

For the Day: (For Aug Exp/Spot)

Key support for NF: 9830-9790

Key resistance for NF: 9905-9950

Key support for BNF: 24200-24000

Key resistance for BNF: 24400-24575

Hints for positional trading:

Time & Price action suggests that, NF has to sustain over 9950 area for further rally towards 10030-10075 & 10155-10200 area in the short term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 9930 area, NF may fall towards 9885/9830-9790 & 9750-9700 area in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Similarly, BNF has to sustain over 24400 area for further rally towards 24525-24575 & 24675- 24775 area in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 24350 area, BNF may fall towards 24200-24000 & 23850-23700 area in the near term (under bear case scenario).

As par early SGX indication, Nifty Fut (Aug) may open around 9860, down by almost 20 points tracking mixed global cues & renewed concern of Govt’s war on black money following terrible RBI report on the overall outcome of DeMo. Indian market may also focus on Q1FY18 GDP, which is poised to come around 6.6% amid Pre-GST disruptions against prior figure of 6.1% (YOY).

Overnight US market closed in positive on measured US response on NK missile panic coupled with a blockbuster GDP & ADP job data and renewed optimism about US tax reform; USD/US bond yields got a boost ahead of tomorrow’s NFP job data. US GDP for Q2 flashed as 3% against estimate of 2.7% supported by solid consumer spending & business investment, although trade data (export/import) was subdued.

DJ-30 closed around 0.12% higher, while S&P-500 rallied by almost 0.46% to finish at 2458 and Nasdaq was up by almost 1.05% boosted by FANG (Tech) shares.

Although, Trump has said nothing new in his campaign style tax reform propaganda, he has mentioned about 15% desired corporate tax rate in US, which is now around 35% (effective rate around 38-40%). Some US congress members has termed it too low and not acceptable at all. Probably, as a hardcore negotiator, Trump may settle around 25% US corporate tax rate with less deductions in his agenda for a simple US tax structure (deregulation).

Still, even with 25% US corporate tax rate, there may be significant downfall in Govt revenue and Trump’s plan does not indicate any step, how to manage such shortfall in revenue without cutting corresponding Govt capex/expenditure. In that sense, Trump’s tax reform plan was light on details and heavy on political populism to make America great again. Market will look for more specific details in his next series of tax campaign speech.

Interestingly, Trump has praised the GOP members for this tax plan, but not mentioned anything about Cohn, who is supposed to be the main architect of his tax reform plan; market may be little anxious about current relationship between Trump & Cohn after some harsh, but measured criticism about the VA racist incident by Cohn in his tax reform interview.

US stock future (SPX-500) is now trading around 2457, marginally up by 0.09% and looking ahead it need to stay over 2465 area for 2475-2490 zone; immediate support may be now around 2450-2440 area.

Back to home, Indian market may focus on Govt’s stance against black money after yesterday’s RBI report of DeMo, which may be indicating an economic blunder although it is proved as a political master stroke by NAMO.

In any way, whatever be the narrative, Govt/FMO is justifying the DeMo as a crusade against black money; although it’s a known stance, in order to reach a definitive conclusion, Govt may also intensify its war against black money/shell cos ahead of 2018-19 series of state & general election and that may be negative for the Indian market & consumption story, although it may be quite right morally & ethically.



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