Futures Halt Selloff, Levitate Higher On Another USDJPY Spike; Oil Rises
By Tyler Durden
If yesterday’s selloff had a specific catalyst, namely some of the worst consumer retail earnings seen in years, it merely undid the Tuesday rally which levitated global risk with no fundamental driver, aside for a 200 pip spike in the USDJPY. Some central bankers may even say it was a “magical” levitation. (Recall: A Central Banker Officially Loses It: “We Are Magic People”). Fast forward to the overnight session when following a muted Asian session, it was once again up to the “magical” USDJPY to send stocks well into the green without any actual catalyst whatsoever, but what merely appears to have been another “magical” intervention session by the BOJ.
In addition to rising European stocks and S&P500 futures which were 0.6% higher at last check, oil prices also rose after the International Energy Agency softened its forecast for a global supply surplus. Curiously, while the IEA said that it expects OPEC April crude output to rise 33k bpd to 32.76mln bpd, the highest since August 2008, and noted that Iran output rose to pre-sanctions levels in April while Iraq output rebounded on near-record southern exports, it offset this surge in output with hopes that non-OPEC supply would decline by 100k bpd citing outages. Which is ironic because with every $1 higher in WTI more shale companies restart production. It also expects a smaller global surplus on stronger global demand.
A good summary of recent oil price action comes from Angus Nicholson, analyst at IG, who said that “we have had a lot of reasons that have supported the price over the past week, the Canadian wildfires, Nigerian supply disruptions and then a surprisingly bigger inventory pullback. At the moment, oil has been trading very tightly within a range of around $43 to $47. We need a key breakout of that trading range to decisively say which direction the price is going.”
With oil trading 1% higher at $6.60, it seems we are about to break out of this band any moment.
Meanwhile, the abovementioned USDJPY levitation helped the Stoxx Europe 600 Index reverse a drop of as much as 1%, overcoming a drag from companies including LafargeHolcim Ltd. that posted lower earnings. Because when all else fails there is always central-bank driven “magical” multiple expansion.
Market Snapshot
- S&P 500 futures up 0.6% to 2069
- Stoxx 600 up 0.2% to 335.4
- Eurostoxx 50 +0.4%
- FTSE 100 -0.1%
- CAC 40 +0.4%
- DAX +0.3%
- IBEX +0.6%
- FTSEMIB +0.4%
- SMI -0.2%
- Nikkei 225 up 0.4%
- Hang Seng down 0.7%
- Kospi down 0.1%
- Shanghai Composite down 0%
- ASX down 0.2%
- Sensex up 0.7%
- Euro down 0.12% to $1.1412
- Dollar Index up 0.13% to 93.95
- Japanese yen down 0.52% to 108.98
- Brent Futures up 0.6% to $47.9/bbl
- Gold spot down 0.6% to $1269.4/oz
- German 10Yr yield up 1bps to 0.14%
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Source: Futures Halt Selloff, Levitate Higher On Another USDJPY Spike; Oil Rises
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