Tuesday 20 November 2012

Pre-Market Brief

Good morning. Futures are a touch lower, the sp -1pt, we're set to open around 1385. This will probably be a very disappointing open for the bears, after the ratings downgrade of France last night.

Primary upside target is sp'1425, to be hit early next week.


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Summary

A downgrade of France, and the market is holding up fine. Yet, it is to be expected. Yesterday the was first major up day in a fair while, it will be difficult to reverse that level of momentum after just one day.

I will remain on the sidelines until next week, and will wait for a re-short in the low 1400s, which may occur as early as Monday.

*Bernanke speaks later today, bears should be very mindful of that.

It is very viable we'll hit sp'1400 late today, or certainly..during tomorrows session.

Good wishes for Tuesday trading!
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UPDATE..stock of the day (see fair value stocks at the close)..will have to be HPQ, which is -9% in pre-market, after lousy earnings, and talk of fraud.

As I wrote just last week, the company is an embaressment. Primary target is $10, and then I expect HPQ to be removed from the Dow in second half of 2013.