TECHNICAL ANALYSIS REPORT – 12 AUGUST 2022

 

WALLSTREET LOWER ON THE EXPECTATION THAT FED STILL NEEDS AN INTEREST RATE HIKE  

Asia-Pacific stocks tracked Wall Street losses and the yen fell on Friday. The Shanghai Composite is down 0.11% at 3,278.39. Overall, the Singapore MSCI is down 0.03% at 308.45. Over in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index is up 0.61% at 20,150.00. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 is up 2.63% at 28,510.00, while the Topix index is up 2.07% at 1972.50. South Korea’s Kospi is up 0.11% at 2,526.55. Australia S&P/ASX 200 down 0.65% at 7024.90.

Top News of the Day:

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 retreated to close lower on Thursday on the realization the Federal Reserve still needs to aggressively boost interest rates to fully tame rising consumer prices despite fresh evidence of cooling inflation.

The S&P 500 closed a tad lower after earlier hitting fresh three-month highs following data that showed the U.S. producer price index (PPI) unexpectedly fell in July.

Market Summary as per 11/08/2022:

European equities Thursday closing. The DAX futures contract in Germany traded down 0.05% at 13,694.51, CAC 40 futures up 0.33% at 6544.68 and the UK 100 futures contract in the U.K. down 0.55% at 7,465.92.

In the U.S. on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 0.08% at 33336.68. The S&P 500 down 0.07% at 4207.28 and the Nasdaq 100 down 0.65% at 13291.99, NYSE closes up 0.32% at 15602.92

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

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TRADE SUGGESTION- BUY AT 1.2196, TAKE PROFIT AT 1.2234 AND STOP LOSS AT 1.2165

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