Thursday, 11 October 2018

Market Mantra (Nifty Fut/Bank Nifty Fut/USDINR/SPX-500): 11/10/2018

The Indian market plunged Thursday on terrible global cues after an overnight plunged of Dow future by over 800 points, followed by another 350 points in the morning Asian session amid higher bond yields and as Fed “gone crazy” and “going loco” in Trump’s version as he doubled down on the Fed for its hawkish monetary policy and “gradual” rate hikes.

In brief, Dow future plunged over 1150 points from Wednesday on the concern of higher borrowing costs amid surging bond yields and stress on techs. The benchmark 10Y US bond yield-scaled a multi-year high of 3.244% and moreover sustaining above the level of 3.15%, which is not a good sign for the US corporate bottom line and the overall economy.

The US bond yield moved higher on Wednesday after a brief respite Tuesday, apparently on comments from Fed’s Williams. The NY Fed President Williams said "further gradual increases in interest rates" are the best way to foster a sustained expansion and also reduce risk-taking in financial markets. The US bonds are also under stress on a deluge of US debts supplies amid Wednesday’s UST auctions of 10Y for $23B and 3Y for $36B.

On Wednesday, the US bond yield was also supported by the US core PPI for September, which jumped to +0.2% from prior slump of -0.1%, right on expectations sequentially.

The US bonds are slumping basically due to lack of sufficient foreign institutional interest (Japan/EU) for high and unviable hedging costs (negative return and high-cost year-end FWD contract rollover issue). To simply put it, supplies of US treasuries in the market are now higher than demand and thus US Treasuries are plunging, causing higher bond yields. China, Japan and also Russia may also sell their US Treasury holdings in retaliation to Trump tantrum.

Historically, the spread between the US 10Y bond yield and the Fed rate is around 1% and thus at Fed Fund rate of +2.25%, the present 10Y yield is hovering around +3.25% and aiming for +3.50% in the coming days as Fed is poised to hike another +0.25% in Dec’18 to bring the US nominal rate at +2.50%.

In that scenario, the benchmark Indian 10Y bond yields should hover around 8.50% (spread around 500 bps). And RBI has to hike by another 1% in rest of FY-19 and FY-20 to 7.50% to maintain the spread of 1% between 10Y GSEC yield and Indian repo rate, everything being equal.

The US 10Y bond yield dropped around 3.15% early Thursday after an apparent institutional support (Fed’s plunge protection team) in the last hour of trading Wednesday. But Dow future is not so much convinced as the US 10Y bond yield is targeting 3.50-3.55% zone in the coming days unless Fed abandons its Dec’18 rate hike plan and de-board the “loco” as per Trump’s “advise”.

The Indian market got a brief respite on Wednesday as SBI is planning to bail out cash-strapped NBFCs by lending them Rs.45B fresh. But all these have little bearing on India’s surging bond yield above 8% and plunging currency, now almost at 75 level against the US dollar.

As elections are coming, various state governments as-well-as the Federal government is busy with political populism rather than fiscal discipline, which would be negative for India’s combined fiscal deficit, now above 6.50%. If we consider unpaid food, oil, and some other subsidies, India’s Federal fiscal deficit would be much more than the 3.5% figure.

But the market is getting some support on Thursday as oil slips on general “risk-off” sentiment, subdued demand forecast by IEA and surprised API inventory buildup.

Updated: 09:45

Nifty-SGX-NF: 10200 (-270; -2.53%)
                                                                 
Bank Nifty-BNF: 24700 (-600; -2.39%)

USDINR-I: 74.53 (+0.15.; +0.22%)

SPX-500: 2758 (-23; -0.83%)

Fut-I (Key Technical Levels)

Support for NF:

10140/10095*-10000/9950*-9850/9700-9650/9600-9550/9450

Resistance to NF:

10275/10335*-10390/10425*-10485/10515-10560/10580-10640/10675

Support for BNF:

24650/24400*-24200*/24100-24000/23900-23800/23650-23600/23300

Resistance to BNF:

24800/25050*-25200*/25300-25400/25575-25675/25750-25875/26050

Support for USDINR-I:

73.45/73.00*-72.75/72.25-72.00/71.50-71.25/70.95-70.70/70.35

Resistance to USDINR-I:

74.05/74.25-74.50/75.00-75.65/76.00-76.55/77.00-77.50/79.70

Support for SPX-500:

2745/2715*-2690*/2675-2650/2620-2600/2580-2550/2535

Resistance to SPX-500:

2775/2790*-2815/2840*-2875/2890-2905/2925-2945/2960

Technical View (Nifty, Bank Nifty, USDINR-I, SPX-500):

Technically, Nifty Fut-I (NF) has to sustain over 10275 for a further rally to 10335/10390-10425/10485-10515/10560-10580/10640 in the near term (under bullish case scenario). 

On the flip side, sustaining below 10255-10190 NF may fall to 10140/10095-10000/9950-9850/9700-9650/9600 in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Technically, Bank Nifty Fut-I (BNF) has to sustain over 24800 for a further rally to 25050/25200-25300/25400-25575/25675-25750/25875 in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 24750 BNF may fall to 24650/24400-24200/24100-24000/23900-23800/23650 in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Technically, USDINR-I has to sustain over 73.00-73.45 for a further rally to 74.05/74.25-74.50/75.00-75.65/76.00-76.55/77.00-77.50/79.70 in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 72.75-72.25, USDINR-I may fall to 72.00/71.50-71.25/70.95-70.70/70.35 in the near term (under bear case scenario).
Technically, SPX-500 has to sustain over SPX-500 has to sustain over 2790 for a further rally to 2815/2840*-2875/2890-2905/2925-2945/2960 in the near term (under bullish case scenario).

On the flip side, sustaining below 2775, SPX-500 may fall to 2745/2715-2690*/2675-2650/2620-2600/2580 in the near term (under bear case scenario).

Valuation metrics:

Nifty-50: 10200; Q4FY18 EPS: 402; Q4FY18 PE: 25.37; Avg FWD PE: 20; Proj FY-19 EPS: 425-450; Proj Fair Value: 8500-9000


Bank Nifty: 24600; Q4FY18 EPS: 519; Q4FY18 PE: 47.40; Avg FWD PE: 20; Proj FY-19 EPS: 961-1000; Proj Fair Value: 19220-20000 (assuming NPA recovery).

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