Sufficiently Philanga....thropic wrote:Sufficiently Philanga....thropic wrote:NSE 20 closes the week at 2832, 42 points shy of the
Jan 2017 low of 2790.Let's see whether this will be defended. Below this and the new support will be the March 2009 low of 2360

Holding steady ATM but FED's decision to keep increasing its FED rate will keep emboldening the bears especially in Frontier and Emerging Economies.
The 2017 rally is about to be wiped out in its entirety - 100% retracement. FFR projection is one more hike in December and four more hikes in 2019. Not to take their word for it knowing how unreliable some of these forecasts turn out to be but the fundies ( 10yr UST is > than 3% and steadily climbing anchoring inflation expectations) point to a faster rate hike cycle.
If we discount two hikes and only factor one at year end, two more next year plus this week's hike that makes it 100bps jump by end of 2019...this never portends well for EM/FM. Holding everything else constant (no crises/contagion in relation to debt and China is still chugging along fine) my operative scenario is that those markets will broadly tank by about 15-20%. That would place NSE20 at around the GFC levels. If inflation in the US picks up faster than anticipated then all hell will break loose.
As the Fed and PBoC continue tightening, ECB risks being left in no man's land with its QE programme in the Eurozone. The markets will end up armtwisting the ECB in to a knee-jerk policy in an effort to fend off capital outflows.
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many people as possible.