Morning wrap (18.05.2022)

8:52 am 18 May 2022

  • US indices finished yesterday's trading with large gains. S&P 500 jumped 2.02%, Dow Jones moved 1.34% higher and Nasdaq gained 2.76%. Small-cap Russell 2000 rallied 3.19%

  • Stocks in Asia traded mixed. While Nikkei and S&P/ASX 200 traded 0.7% higher, Kospi gained just 0.1% and indices from China dropped

  • DAX futures point to a flat opening of the European cash session today

  • Fed Chair Powell said that interest rates will be raised beyond neutral levels if the situation requires it. Powell said Fed stays committed to bringing inflation down

  • Fed Evans said that he expects rates hikes to get smaller by July or September (25 basis points)

  • European Commission will prepare a €210 billion plan for ending dependance on Russian fossil fuels by 2027

  • More than 800 financial institution were allowed to resume operations in Shanghai in another sign of easing restrictions

  • Japanese GDP contracted 0.2% QoQ in Q1 2022 (exp. -0.4% QoQ)

  • API report pointed to a 2.44 million barrel drop in US oil inventories (exp. +1.5 mb)

  • Cryptocurrencies are pulling back today - Bitcoin drops 1.8% and Ethereum trades 2.1% lower

  • Oil trades 0.3% higher while precious metals drop slightly

  • NZD and JPY are the best performing major currencies while EUR and CAD lag the most

Russell 2000 (US2000) outperformed other major Wall Street indices yesterday, gaining over 3%. Small-cap index continues recovery from a recent downside breakout from a trading range. The nearest resistance to watch is marked with the lower limit of an earlier-broken range at 1,930 pts. Source: xStation5

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