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Open day in terms of economic releases.

Market News

03.11.13

Top Day Markets News

As is usually the case, Monday after the Unemployment Number is an open day in terms of economic releases. Although the job creation numbers and the unemployment number were really much better than any estimation, they are being discounted in the aftermath to some degree as they don’t reflect sequestration. What they did disprove was the consensus that corporations were not hiring due to the climate of economic uncertainty.

 

Week of March 11 - March 15

 

Date

 

ET

 

Release

 

For

 

Actual

Briefing.com Forecast

Briefing.com Consensus

 

Prior

Revised From

 

Mar 12

 

14:00

 

Treasury Budget

 

Feb

 

 

-$205.0B

 

-$205.0B

-

$237.7B

 

 

Mar 13

 

07:00

 

MBA Mortgage Index

 

03/09

 

 

NA

 

NA

 

14.8%

 

 

Mar 13

 

08:30

 

Retail Sales

 

Feb

 

 

0.2%

 

0.5%

 

0.1%

 

 

Mar 13

 

08:30

 

Retail Sales ex-auto

 

Feb

 

 

0.3%

 

0.5%

 

0.2%

 

 

Mar 13

 

08:30

 

Export Prices ex-ag.

 

Feb

 

 

NA

 

NA

 

0.5%

 

 

Mar 13

 

08:30

 

Import Prices ex-oil

 

Feb

 

 

NA

 

NA

 

0.2%

 

 

Mar 13

 

10:00

 

Business Inventories

 

Jan

 

 

0.6%

 

0.4%

 

0.1%

 

 

Mar 13

 

10:30

 

Crude Inventories

 

03/09

 

 

NA

 

NA

 

3.833M

 

 

Mar 14

 

08:30

 

Initial Claims

 

03/09

 

 

350K

 

350K

 

340K

 

 

Mar 14

 

08:30

 

Continuing Claims

 

03/02

 

 

3100K

 

3103K

 

3094K

 

 

Mar 14

 

08:30

 

PPI

 

Feb

 

 

0.8%

 

0.7%

 

0.2%

 

 

Mar 14

 

08:30

 

Core PPI

 

Feb

 

 

0.2%

 

0.2%

 

0.2%

 

 

 

                 

 

 

 

Date

 

ET

 

Release

 

For

 

Actual

Briefing.com Forecast

Briefing.com Consensus

 

Prior

Revised From

 

Mar 14

 

08:30

Current Account Balance

 

Q4

 

 

-$112.0B

 

-$112.3B

-

$107.5B

 

 

Mar 14

 

10:30

 

Natural Gas Inventories

 

03/09

 

 

NA

 

NA

 

-146 bcf

 

 

Mar 15

 

08:30

 

CPI

 

Feb

 

 

0.6%

 

0.5%

 

0.0%

 

 

Mar 15

 

08:30

 

Core CPI

 

Feb

 

 

0.2%

 

0.2%

 

0.3%

 

 

Mar 15

 

08:30

 

Empire Manufacturing

 

Mar

 

 

5.0

 

6.5

 

10.0

 

 

Mar 15

 

09:00

 

Net Long-Term TIC Flows

 

Jan

 

 

NA

 

NA

 

$64.2B

 

 

Mar 15

 

09:15

 

Industrial Production

 

Feb

 

 

0.6%

 

0.4%

 

-0.1%

 

 

Mar 15

 

09:15

 

Capacity Utilization

 

Feb

 

 

79.8%

 

79.4%

 

79.1%

 

 

Mar 15

 

09:55

 

Mich Sentiment

 

Mar

 

 

79.0

 

77.8

 

77.6

 

 

Numbers are good up until the close of business today. These are strictly technical in nature, not fundamentally based or biased.

Legend U is Up

D is Down

PRD is Potential Reversal Day (Change of Trend) S2 is Weekly strong support

S1 is Weekly good support DS is Daily Support

DR is Daily Resistance

R1 is Weekly Good Resistance and is calculated once a week on Sunday night

R2 is Weekly Strong Resistance and is calculated once a week on Sunday night

Levels are for the most active futures contract

Daily Support and Resistance

 

 

Trend

WS2

WS1

DS

DR

WR1

WR2

Mar ES

U

1492.50

1518.75

1537.25

1549.75

1559.5

0

1574

Mar Nasdaq

 

U

2698

2749

2785

2813

2833

2867

Jun JY

 

D

101.07

102.72

102.54

105.37

106.83

109.29

Jun EC

 

D

128.51

129.70

128.51

131.07

131.07

132.11

Jun 10 Year

 

D

128.23

129.15

129.18

130.20

131.15

132.24

Jun 30 Year

 

D

137.21

139.10

139.19

141.27

143.25

146.19

May Soybeans

 

D

14.12

14.41

14.52

14.87

14.92

15.13

May Corn

 

U

6.685

6.86

6.93

7.14

7.16

7.30

April Gold

 

D

1549

1563

1563

1596

1589

1600.2

May Silver

 

D

27.91

28.43

28.42

29.36

29.37

29.78

 

May Copper

 

D

345

348

349

352

354

357

April Crude

 

PRD(U)

88.37

90.12

91.17

92.37

92.82

93.77

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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