Friday, May 2, 2014

PRUDENT MORNING MANTRA - 02.05.2014

BANG ON TARGET

WORLD MARKETS

US indices ended little changed yesterday, a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to a record finish, as markets awaited Friday's nonfarm payrolls report for April.

Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose by 14,000 to 344,000 last week. The four-week moving average gained 3,000 to 320,000. A separate report from the Commerce Department had consumer spending jumping the most in nearly five years in March, up 0.9%, while the Institute for Supply Management's factory index rose to 54.9 in April from 53.7 the month before.

European markets ended mixed. FTSE gained 0.4%, rising for the fourth straight day. A U.K. house price index showed prices soared 10.9 percent in April year-on-year, beating analysts' expectations. In addition, a manufacturing PMI survey for the U.K. showed a rise to 57.3 in April, versus estimates of 55.4 and a previous figure of 55.8.

Earlier, data showed that China's official PMI rose to 50.4 in April, just missing analysts' expectations, but better than March's 50.3.

Gold fell 1% to close at $1283. Crude-oil declined 40 cents to $99.4 a barrel.

AT HOME

After rising a percent in the morning trade, benchmark indices nosedived just under 2% from the top of the day, but cut some of the losses in last hour to finally end lower by nearly a fourth of a percent. Sensex settled at 22418, down 48 points while Nifty finished at 6696, down 19 points. BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices tumbled 1.1% and 1.6% respectively. BSE Realty index sank 5.3%, becoming top loser among the sectoral indices, followed by 2.1% cut in Power index. Auto and FMCG indices gained 0.4% and 0.2% respectively.

FIIs net bought stocks and stock futures worth Rs 454 cr and 51 cr respectively but net sold index futures worth Rs 267 cr. DIIs were net buyers to the tune of Rs 6 cr.

Rupee appreciated 11 paise to close at 60.31/$.

India's core sector growth slowed to 2.5% in March from 7% y-o-y and 4.5% month-on-month.

Maruti reported 11.4% y-o-y dip in April sales at 97302 units. M & M too reported 12% dip in total sales at 36274 units. Hero Moto Corp however reported 14.5% jump at 5.71 lac units.

OUTLOOK

Today morning Asian markets are trading mixed with modest changes and SGX Nifty is suggesting about 25 points higher opening for our market.

In our latest weekly as well as subsequent daily reports we had been mentioning that Nifty can retest the 6650-6665 bottom if sustains below 6773. We had also been mentioning that 6665 is the important near term support, a breach of which will break the higher-top higher-bottom formation on the daily chart. Nifty, on Friday, after touching a low of 6657, bounced back smartly to close at 6696, and is set to open about 30 points higher today, vindicating our view perfectly.

As long as Nifty holds 6665, the correction over past four should be seen as a healthy one.

Immediate resistance on the hourly chart is placed around 6780, a crossover of which would generate a buy signal on the hourly chart and would pave the way for the retest of the 6870 top made last week.

Traders are advised to wait for the crossover of 6780 for building fresh longs. Existing longs should carry a stop loss of 6665 on closing basis.


In the US, April employment report will be released today, which is expected to show an addition of 210000 jobs.

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