By Chris Becker
That’s all folks – my last daily update for the year. I’ll see you on the other side, around mid-January. This usually means we’re going to have either a crash or a large rally – these volatile events always happen when I go on holiday.
Anyway, to today’s results – yet another scratch day for the ASX200 but also most other markets in Asia – except this time mainland China. The Nikkei 225 barely moved after a very good day yesterday as the Yen weakened appreciably against, well everything.
The Shanghai Comp is the star today – actually up 4% since I grabbed that table from FARM and almost there on a breakout above resistance:
My preferred index, the HSCE Index has already broken out and looks like on its way to its February high:
The Aussie dollar looks set to reach 1.06 on USD weakness – time to short soon perhaps given it hasn’t breached this level in quite some time:
The US Dollar Index remains below the 80 point key level – maybe QEInfinity will work this time? Not according to Gold (USD) – the shiny metal is just above its 200 day moving average with a lot of selling overhead:
Australian Stocks
More interesting rotations in the sectors today – I note that most of the mainstream analysis and newsletters are saying to buy yield stocks – a bit late isn’t it? Discretionary stocks were sold off after yesterday’s bid on Xmas cheer, but its really about the battle of the overbought, overvalued and overconcentrated financials vs the China Caboose – the materials sector:
I’ll let the chart talk here:
Those tails above in the last 3 days tell a picture as well: lots of sell just above the recent high. Profit taking? I feel a correction in my bones – that’s been a big rebound from the 200 day moving average hasnt it?
Enjoy the rest of 2012, I’ll see you in the new year!
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