Monday, 7 August 2017

Nifty Slips By 0.23% Amid Mixed Q1 Earnings & Subdued Global Cues Coupled With GST Squabbling



Market Wrap: 07/08/2017 (17:00)

NSE-NF (Aug):10086 (-23; -0.23%) (TTM PE: 25.46; Abv 2 SD of 25; Avg PE: 20; TTM EPS: 395; NS: 10057)

NSE-BNF (Aug):249981 (+151; +0.61%) (TTM PE: 31.33; Abv 3 SD of 30; Avg PE: 20 TTM EPS: 795; BNS: 24906)

For 08/08/2017: 

Key support for NF: 10065-10010

Key resistance for NF: 10155-10205

Key support for BNF: 24900-24700

Key resistance for BNF: 25150-25275

Hints for positional trading:

Time & Price action suggests that, NF has to sustain over 10205 area for further rally towards 10275-10325 & 10380-10455 in the short term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 10185-10155 area, NF may fall towards 10065-10010 & 9965-9915 area in the short term (under bear case scenario).

Similarly, BNF has to sustain over 25150 area for further rally towards 25275-25500 & 25695 -25865 area in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 25100-25050 area, BNF may fall towards 24900-24700 & 24600-24450 area in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Nifty Fut (Aug) today closed around 10086, down by almost 23 points (-0.23%) in some brisk selling at the closing minutes after making an opening session high of 10119 and closing session low of 10079 in a lackluster day of trading marked by mixed set of Q1 earnings, GST squabbling/confusions on luxury cars/SUV and subdued global cues and lack of any meaningful domestic cues.

Indian market today opened around 10099; almost flat tracking mixed global/Asian cues. Most of the major Asian markets except Hong-Kong & Australia were in red amid a blockbuster US NFP report on Friday, relatively higher USD coupled with ongoing geo-political tensions over NK-US, political drama over Trump’s alleged Russian links and even a buzz of a high probable small scale conflict between China & India over the Doklam LOC (Sikkim) issue.

Market may be also anxious over any further NK missile/ICBM test in retaliation over the US sponsored UN sanction of its $1 bln export of various minerals & iron ore, which accounts for nearly 33% of its overall export revenue ($3 bln).

Overnight, on Friday weekend, most of the EU markets were closed with handsome gains amid mixed earnings, but fall of EUR/EUR bund yields to some extent as USD soared after the upbeat job report coupled with renewed hopes of an impending US tax cut/reform legislation after WH economic adviser Cohn has indicated for the same.

US market (DJ-30) also closed higher (+0.30%) supported by upbeat economic data coupled with solid report card from some of the banks & financials. But a higher USD may also affect the US market sentiment in the days ahead as a weak USD may be one of the primary drivers of the US stock market coupled with upbeat earnings; over 72% of the S&P companies may have produced results better than market estimate in Q2.

A lower USD because of overall soft economic data, subdued inflation and an apparent dovish Fed seems to be good for US corporate bottom line (exports income) and may be also good for the imported inflation in the US economy; overall it looks like a goldilocks types of economic situation, where job market is quite tight and producing jobs with decent earnings/wage growth without any runaway inflation in the economy; i.e. not sufficient enough to create an unabated wage inflation.

Overall, USD reaction from the upbeat US job report on the weekend may be muted as the surge in jobs is primarily for the low wage temporary workers and this job report does not guarantee for a Dec’17 rate hike by Fed; but a QE (B/S) tapering may be well on the card, either from Sep’17 or from Dec’17, followed by ECB in Jan’18.

Back to home, Indian market continue to haunt by the concern of stretched valuations amid mixed Q1 report cards despite Friday’s closing hours euphoria about Govt’s move to list a mega ETF (Bharat-22) comprising of the CPSE, SUUITI & PSBS trim its holdings gradually in those companies.

Govt may be also very concerned about non-transmission of input tax credit (ITC) to the consumers by small retailers/traders across the line and various channel checks may be also indicating that in Q2 also, there may be some GST disruptions as most of the small retailers or traders are not ready for a GST registration at all.

A strong INR even after hawkish cut by RBI last week may be also not good for the Indian market (Nifty), being an export heavy index, although it may be good for the overall import oriented Indian economy. 

Govt may now reconsider to bring the petro products (petrol & diesel) in the GST with a reasonable tax component as overall tax collections & compliances from other sources is now gradually improving after DeMo, UID & GST; a lower gasoline price in line with the international prices may also act as a stimulus for the Indian economy, which is historically high for decades, being one of the easiest tax revenue source for the Govt.

Overall, tax component on petro products in India may be around 75% on an average, which is far greater than global average of around 25%.

Another factor, which may have affected the Indian market sentiment today, is SEBI’s new regulations to report immediately any types of debt defaults to the exchange compliance mechanism. Stressed assets may be now on e of the primary headwinds for the Indian market; although the new Bankruptcy law/NPA-IBC process may be easier for the company to wind down and go for faster liquidation, in most of the cases, even a liquidation may not result in the actual resolution of the NPA; Banks also do not want liquidation, but actual resolution and they are also taking a coordinated action.

A tepid credit growth around 5-6% may not be good for the overall Indian banking system, specially the PSBS.

Domestic market may be also confused today after reports that Govt may bring an ordinance to increase the GST/cess on luxury cars from the present 15% to 25%; for a truly successful GST implementation, the multiplicity of taxation rates may be a tough challenge.

In another development, India’s Skymet today commented that overall monsoon this year might be just normal (95-96% of LPA); whatever be the rest of the monsoon, recent abnormal surge in prices of some vegetables (tomato, onion and milk products) may make the inflation hawk RBI unhappy.

Today Nifty was supported by Tata Steel, which soared by over 4% to touch the 600 milestone on hopes of a dream Q1 show later in the day; apart from that, SBI also helped the index immensely on earnings optimism; result to be out by this week. Nifty was also helped by BPCL (OMC optimism), Adani Ports, ICICI Bank, BOB and L&T.

Nifty was dragged by RIL (buzz of M&A with Tata Tele) HDFC duo, Infratel, NTPC, Tata Motors (subdued JLR sales), Pharma & IT (strong INR), FMCG & Axis Bank.

Elsewhere, Australian market (ASX-200) closed around 5774, up by almost 0.93%, on some strength in AUD after AU construction PMI for July flashed as 60.5 vs 56 (prior) and an upbeat energy, materials and banks & financials.

Banks in AU, including the CBA reversed some loses of the weekend, after CBA indicated that a software coding error may be responsible for some unauthorized cash deposits above the AUD 10K limit in some of its cash deposit machine. On the Friday weekend, AU banking regulator has accused the CBA under anti money laundering act.

Japan (Nikkei-225) is also closed lower around 19952; down by almost 0.38% tracking muted USD in liquidity starved early Asian session. Today, a former well known BOJ dove (Kiuchi) commented that BOJ is playing a riskier game with QQE without any serious focus on the QE tapering; ongoing JGB scarcity and various other limits/factors may force BOJ to normalize its policy well before the elusive 2% inflation target.

Toshiba has helped the Nikkei-225 to some extent today after reports that trouble with its auditor may end soon.

China (SSE) was in negative around 3262, (-0.33%) on concerns of NK geo-political tensions, tech valuation & outlook and ongoing tightening by Chinese regulator. Today, PBOC again drained out around 60 bln Yuan and made USDCNY relatively stronger at 6.7228 vs 6.7132 tracking as an upbeat US jobs report on the Friday weekend.

Hong-Kong (HKG-33) was trading around 27665, up by almost 0.30% and South Koran Kospi was up by almost 0.5% on some moderation in USD this morning; a weaker USD is generally positive for the export heavy Asian indexes.
Subdued EU market after tepid German IIP data amid ongoing NK geo-political tensions may have also affected the Indian market sentiment today in the closing session and it sold off to some extent after a trading in a narrow range for most of the days.

Overall, mixed earnings and upbeat miners (rally in iron-ore) may be also affecting the EU market today with Stoxx-50 now around 3500 (-0.19%); DAX is trading around 0.46% lower on tepid economic data, earnings and some rebound in EUR; but FTSE-100 is up by 0.14% as GBPUSD gone lower amid ongoing Brexit squabbling and a dovish BOE.

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