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Fundamentals -

U.S. Stock Market

March S&Ps this morning are trading unchanged.  The US stock market on Thursday opened higher on  stronger-than-expected Dec durable goods orders but shed its gains and settled lower after Dec U.S. new home sales unexpectedly declined and Dec leading indicators rose less than expected: Dow Jones -0.18%, S&P 500 -0.57%, Nasdaq Composite -0.46%.  The S&P 500 posted a 6-month high, the Dow posted an 8-1/2 month high and the Nasdaq posted a 10-3/4 year high, but they all shed their advances and closed lower.  Bearish factors on Thursday included (1) the larger-than-expected increase in weekly initial unemployment claims (+21,000 to 377,000 versus expectations of +18,000 to 370,000), (2) the smaller-than-expected increase in Dec leading indicators (+0.4% versus expectations of +0.7%), (3) weakness in homebuilders after the unexpected decline in Dec U.S. new home sales (-2.2% to 307,000 versus expectations of +1.9% to 321,000), and (4) weakness in bank stocks on concern the Fed's pledge to maintain record low interest rates until 2014 may hurt banks' earnings prospects and their profitability.

Bullish factors included (1) the stronger-than-expected Dec durable goods orders along with the upward revision to Nov (Dec +3.0% and +2.1% ex transportation versus expectations of +2.0% and +0.9% ex transportation and Nov revised up to +4.3% and +0.5% ex transportation from the originally reported +3.7% and +0.3% ex transportation), (2) decent Q4 reported earnings thus far as 68% of the 146 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings results since Jan 9 have beaten per-share earnings estimates, and (3) reduced European debt concerns as Italian borrowing costs fell after Italy sold 4.5 billion euros of zero-coupon 2014 debt, the maximum target, at a yield of 3.783%, down from a similar-maturity auction last month of 4.853%.

 

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The CRB Futures Market Service & Trends in Futures is one of the oldest and most respected market letters in the industry since 1934.

Trends in Futures tracks over 79 markets, including foreign exchange (FX), stock indices, interest rates, metals, energies, grains, meats, foods & fibers and exchange traded funds (ETF).

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About CRB

The Commodity Research Bureau has been leading the world in commodities research and analysis since 1934.  Based in Chicago, Illinois, the firm has been the innovator of the CRB Indices, as well as the publisher of the CRB Yearbook, Encyclopedia, CRB Price Charts, Trends in Futures and Futures Market Service newsletters.

About CRB Trends in Futures

In 1963, the Commodity Research Bureau developed a computerized trading system for the purpose of removing the emotional human element from market forecasting. Since then, countless trading programs, timing theories, and techniques have been designed and popularized by an even wider universe of individuals and companies for the purpose of "beating" the futures market. Yet, today, CRB's Trends in Futures remains one of the oldest and most respected technical daily market letters.

Trends in Futures trading system analyzes four different technical studies to categorize markets as trending up, sideways, or down. These four studies are a combination of moving average, price volatility, market momentum, and various time cycles. Support and resistance levels are recalculated daily and serve as "stops" when the market is in a trend phase and mark the breakout levels for new up or down trends when markets are in a sideways mode.

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About CRB Futures Market Service

The CRB "Futures Market Service" is a daily publication designed to make you a more powerful trader through an understanding of the fundamental factors moving the commodity and financial futures markets.

The CRB Futures Market Service has stood the test of time with its status as the industries oldest and most respected fundamental newsletter. The first edition was published on February 3, 1934.

Most traders make their trading decisions based on technical analysis and technical trading systems. However, combining both fundamentals and technicals gives you an even more powerful trading approach to the markets. Understanding the fundamentals helps you to gauge market direction, how far the market may move, and when the market may move.

We help you to understand these factors through our fundamental commentary and our weekly commodity and financial calendars. We analyze factors such as Fed policy, inflation, interest rates, stock market earnings and valuation, the dollar, metal and petroleum fundamentals, crop reports and global crop conditions, and livestock and softs fundamentals. We also use the Commitment of Traders to analyze how the big funds are impacting the markets.

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About the author


After graduating from Ohio University in 1984, Jay - aka “The Marketman” purchased a trading membership on the Mid-America Commodity Exchange at the Chicago Board of Trade. There he traded grains and participated twice in the year long real money United Stated Investing Championship, placing 13th +136% and 8th place +265% respectively out of 200 world recognized traders entered.

Gaining recognition for his trading achievements, as well as being published in the Wall Street Journal & Barron’s, Jay was recruited to trade interbank foreign exchange for Sumitomo, the 2nd largest bank in the world.

After a few years of trading FX, Jay accepted a substantial options trading position with the largest limited partnership at Chicago Board Options Exchange, becoming an exchange member and market-maker.After numerous years trading in the pits, Jay realized that electronic screen based trading was the wave of the future and decided to electronically trade his personal account and execute off the floor for large financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs’ Speer Leads & Kellogg, Hong Kong & Shanghi Banking Corporation (HSBC), 1st Chicago and Commerzbank.

In 2006, Jay joined Commodity Research Bureau (CRB) as a Senior Research Advisor to specialize in foreign exchange, interest rates, precious metals, energies, grains and stock indices. In addition; Jay trades his own personal account.

CRB, based in Chicago and with a heritage dating back to 1934 is the oldest and one of the most respected independent research firms. CRB are the innovators of the CRB indexes, publisher of CRB Yearbook, CRB Encyclopedia, Futures Market Service, TrendTrader, CRB Price Charts and historical data products.

Jay has vast interests and enjoys sailing, working out, running, in-line skating, innovation, environmental issues, history, phenomenon, ancient civilizations and sporting clays.      

In addition, the most rewarding and important thing Jay is doing is volunteering at Children’s Memorial Hospital in the teen lounge, where he gives the teenagers encouragement, support and friendship.

Jay Brown Sr. Research Advisor



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