Thursday 2 August 2012

Pre-Market Brief

Good morning. ECB keeps rates unchanged at 0.75%, although some are still looking for some kind of annoucement about help for Spain/Italy.

Jobless claims: 365k  vs 370 consensus

*Factory orders are due at 10am
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Summary

We appear to be set to open much like yesterday, sp +5pts to 1380 or so.

There is little question that we are rolling over on the daily cycle - as lead by the Transports and Rus'2000 indexes, yet we're still trading within a channel that is now five weeks old.

Good wishes for Thursday trading!
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Knight Capital: whose algo-bots went wild yesterday...-50% pre-market....have reported a loss of $440 million due to their crazy bots!
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UPDATE 9.04am

Draghi notes that he does NOT have the authority to do anything else.

Market swings from a brief peak of sp+10pts to -10pts.

;)