Global Market Outlook For Week Beginning 28th September 2009

September 29, 2009 · Filed Under Investment, Short term - Medium term · Comment 

STSTI has the tested the 2700 level 3 times but is still unable to break this stubborn resistance successfully. It may experience a pullback to the immediate  support level of 2560. If 2560 cannot prevent the drop, the next support levels will be at 2521 and 2424 respectively. Singapore market seems to have lost its upward momentum, it is now going through some consolidation before it has enough strength to break through the 2700 level, hopefully going towards the 3000 mark before the end of the year.

 

SSETrading for the China market will be light this week because of the 8 days “Golden Week” break. SSE will most likely consolidate between the 2600 and 3000 level, before it can gather enough momentum to break the 3000 ceiling to retest the early August high of 3478. At this point of time, signs are still showing that this is just a temporary halting of the upward momentum, the long term uptrend for SSE is still intact.

 

HSAfter breaking the resistance of 21200, Hang Seng quickly fall below this level in quite a drastic manner. It should find some support at around 20600 level, based on the uptrend line drawn starting early March. If 20600 cannot provide the necessary support, HSI may have a chance to fall back to 19400, the low attained in early September this year.

 

S&P 500S&P 500 could not hold above the 1060 level for long and dropped consecutively for the next 3 trading days. The next immediate support will be at 1039, follow by the next uptrend line support of 1000 level.

 

NASDAQNASDAQ did not have enough strength to power through the ceiling of 2167. As a result, it declined together with the general weakness in the US market. The next support for NASDAQ will be at the 2050 level.

 

DOWDow Jones is experiencing weakeness as well, with the next closest support at 9630. If this fail to provide the necessary flooring, the next critical support will be 9250. The 10000 level will be a very very tough ceiling to crack if it can trend upwards from here.

 

I can feel that the markets are slowly running out of steam as they have run too far ahead of the real economy. People are starting to realise that the “green shoots” are not really growing into small plants, instead some of them may have slowly turn into yellow weeds. Our Finance Minister Tharman has already forewarned us that we may have a double-dip recession next year, which I fully agree. The stock market has already factored in for a good economy recovery, it may turn down next year when the fundamental does not live up to the expectation. If this happen, we will most likely have a W-shaped recovery, rather than a V-shaped recovery predicted by a few TOO optimistic experts. A lot of experts associate this financial crisis to that of the Great Depression, which started from October 1929 and ended in July 1932, Dow Jones collapsed almost 90% after having a few powerful rallies. This current financial crisis started around October 2007, has it come to an end after just 18 months? I doubt so, we may see some after-effect of weakness, maybe in 2010.

 

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