Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Nifty May Open Gap Up Amid Positive Global Cues On Lack Of “Fire & Fury” From Trump For Kim Coupled With US Tax Reform Optimism; Indian Market May Focus On Upbeat GST Tax Collections & Muted Q1 Earnings and NPA Resolution



Market Mantra: 30/08/2017 (09:00)

SGX-NF: 9865 (+73)

For the Day: 

Key support for NF: 9845-9790

Key resistance for NF: 9905-9950

Key support for BNF: 24000-23850

Key resistance for BNF: 24375-24575

Hints for positional trading:

Time & Price action suggests that, NF has to sustain over 9905 area for further rally towards 9950-10030 & 10075-10155 area in the short term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 9885 area, NF may fall towards 9845-9790 & 9750-9700 area in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Similarly, BNF has to sustain over 24375 area for further rally towards 24475-24575 & 24675- 24775 area in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 24325 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 9865, 73 points gap up, erasing almost all the yesterday’s loss as Trump threatens no “fire & fury” to Kim and the Nuke Armageddon between US & NK cools off. Also Kim’s rhetoric towards Trump is much more measured and thus USDJPY shrugs off an imminent “war of nukes” between US & NK and covered its short from the vital support zone of 108 triggering a corresponding risk appetite in the US & global market in NY trading session yesterday.

Market may be also optimistic about US tax reform as Trump is scheduled to start his campaign to convince the US public about the benefits of his tax plan intended for the middle class and ongoing obstruction by some of his own RNC members coupled with the opposition DNC.

Thus, Trump may be trying to “kill two birds with one stone” by a political campaign on US tax reform; if it’s passed by the US congress, then he will take credit for it; otherwise he will pass all the blames to his political oppositions, “obstructing US development”.
Market may be also slowly being convinced about Trump’s growing political maturity; if he has the support of US public, then everything may be easy for his “Trumponomics” narratives. But, still then, a significant risk is there for Trump in his Russian links investigation.

Thus, market may be hopeful for passage of US tax reform bill by Dec’2017 as promised by Cohn few days ago, overcoming the present environment of US policy paralysis at WH. But, ongoing rehabilitation focus at Harvey affected area may also undermine Trump’s political effort (tax reform) at this point of time.

Overnight US market also closed higher, reversing all the pre-open fall; DJ-30 closed 0.26% higher, while S&P-500 was up by 0.08% and NASDAQ was in 0.30% green, helped by FANG (Tech) & defence stocks.

US stock future (SPX-500) is now trading around 2448, almost flat (+0.05%) and looking ahead, it has to sustain above 2455-2465 zone for further strength; otherwise it may again come down. Market may focus on EUR strength, while it’s consolidating around 1.20 in EURUSD coupled with US GDP & payroll data in the coming days apart from ongoing US-NK geo-political tensions and Trump’s political woes.

It now seems that Fed should not be concerned about any unusual USD strength, while it will gradually normalize its BS, because US political risk & NK’s missile games may be some of the perfect weapons to keep USD depressed despite a hawkish Fed, the only major G-10 central bank, thinking about dual QT.

Back to home, Indian market may also focus on the elusive earnings recovery & stretched valuations, fresh list by the RBI for NCLT/IBC corporate big NPA and its actual resolution; ultimately both Govt & Banks also want a meaningful resolution rather than liquidation.

Apart from corporate NPA, retail NPA for the banks may be now growing abnormally, especially after DeMo & GST blues, where small business/SMES are finding it more difficult to sustain by paying full compliance costs of his business. Also, home loans and other personal secured & unsecured loans are becoming stressed on the back of growing insecurity about jobs & uncertainty in self-employment/professionals.



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