The USD is mixed to start the day and little changed vs the 3 major currency pairs

Technical Analysis

The US stocks are lower. The USD yields are lower. The USD is mixed (but little changed) vs the major currency pairs to kickstart the US/North American session.

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Looking around the markets, the pressure remains on the US stocks to in premarket trading. The futures are currently implying

  • Dow -332 points after tumbling by -557.24 or -1.18% yesterday
  • S&P is down -34 points after falling -6.170 or -0.92% yesterday
  • Nasdaq is down -100 points after falling -192 points or -0.84% yesterday

Amazon and Microsoft are down -2.13 and -1.7% respectively in premarket trading after downgrade by Rothchild. Home Depot is down close to 4% after earnings disappointed this morning (EPS $3.78 versus $3.85 expected). They lowered their outlook going forward. Nvidia shares are down -1.18% after falling -1.8% yesterday. Nvidia announces earnings after the close tomorrow.

In the US debt market, yields are lower by about 2 – 4 basis points across the yield curve:

  • 2-year yield 3.570%, -4.0 basis points
  • 5 year yield 3.682%, -3.9 basis points
  • 10 year yield 4.099%: 3.3 basis points
  • 30 year yield 4.711%, -2.5 basis points

Today US factory orders for August will be released with expectations of 1.4% versus -1.3% in July. Within that report, will be a revised durable goods for August. Back on September 25, the preliminary durable goods was released and showed a gain of 2.9%.

The NAHB housing market index for November will also be released at 10 AM with expectations of 37 versus 37 last month. That release is not a government number. It was last released on October 16.

Looking at other markets:

  • Crude oi is trading up $0.10 at $60
  • Gold is down $5.50 or -0.12% at $4039.
  • Silver is trading down $0.16 or -0.30% at $50.01
  • Bitcoin felt to a low of $89,189, but as bounce back and trades at $91,497, down $-600 on the day

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This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.