Markets await US Midterm outcome

Summary:

Stocks look to gain into US midterms
A handful of technical information ahead of the midterms
Pound jumps back near $1.31 on “thumbs up”
Ripple surges outperforming other major cryptocurrencies
Top 3 charts this week: USDIDX, US500 and Sugar

There’s been a clear push higher in US indices this afternoon since the opening bell on Wall Street with the US100 leading the way. The markets were trading slightly lower before the US cash session began but there has since been flurry of buying which has pushed prices to their highest levels of the day. The US100 jumped over 1% within 15 minutes of the opening bell and is the biggest gainer, higher by 0.5% on the day at the time of writing.

The US midterm elections are taking place today. In this analysis we present a handful of technical information which could be useful in analysing incoming results from various states. All times are GMT unless otherwise stated.

There’s been a couple of short, sharp moves in the pound today with the currency clearly highly sensitive to the latest twists and turns in the Brexit saga. First off there was a swoon lower after N. Ireland DUP lawmaker Donaldson took to social media to proclaim that it “looks like we’re heading for a no deal Brexit. Just over an hour afterwards though, these losses were reclaimed as the GBPUSD rate jumped to its highest level in over a fortnight with pair reacting positively to another twist.

Investors launched Tuesday’s trading on the cryptocurrency market in rather upbeat moods. Ripple (RIPPLE on xStation5) is undoubtedly winner among most famous cryptocurrencies as it surged around 10% so far today. Capitalization of the whole market stands around the $215 billion handle with Bitcoin having 51.8% market share.

The top 3 charts this week are the USDIDX, US500 and Sugar and can be viewed here.

Cookie name	Description
SERVERID
userBranchSymbol	Expiration date 1 day
test_cookie	Expiration date 1 hour
adobe_unique_id	Expiration date 364 days
__hssc	Expiration date 1 hour
SESSID	Expiration date 1 day
__cf_bm	Expiration date 1 hour
intercom-id-iojaybix	Expiration date 270 days
intercom-session-iojaybix	Expiration date 6 days
xtbCookiesSettings	Expiration date 364 days
TS5b68a4e1027
countryIsoCode
xtbLanguageSettings	Expiration date 364 days
userPreviousBranchSymbol	Expiration date 364 days
intercom-device-id-iojaybix	Expiration date 270 days
__cfruid
_cfuvid

Cookie name	Description
_gid	Expiration date 1 day
_gat_UA-98728395-1	Expiration date 1 hour
_gat_UA-121192761-1	Expiration date 1 hour
_gcl_au	Expiration date 89 days
_ga_CBPL72L2EC	Expiration date 729 days
_ga	Expiration date 729 days
__hstc	Expiration date 179 days
__hssrc
_vwo_uuid_v2	Expiration date 365 days
_ga_TC79BEJ20L	Expiration date 729 days
_vwo_uuid	Expiration date 365 days
_vwo_ds	Expiration date 29 days
_vwo_sn	Expiration date 1 hour
_vis_opt_s	Expiration date 99 days
_vis_opt_test_cookie
af_id	Expiration date 394 days
afUserId	Expiration date 730 days
AF_SYNC	Expiration date 6 days
AnalyticsSyncHistory	Expiration date 29 days

Cookie name	Description
MUID	Expiration date 389 days
_omappvp	Expiration date 3998 days
_omappvs	Expiration date 1 hour
_uetsid	Expiration date 1 day
_uetvid	Expiration date 389 days
_fbp	Expiration date 89 days
fr	Expiration date 89 days
_ttp	Expiration date 89 days
_tt_enable_cookie	Expiration date 89 days
hubspotutk	Expiration date 179 days
IDE	Expiration date 389 days
YSC
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Expiration date 179 days
li_sugr	Expiration date 89 days
guest_id_marketing	Expiration date 729 days
guest_id_ads	Expiration date 729 days
guest_id	Expiration date 729 days
muc_ads	Expiration date 729 days
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA	Expiration date 179 days
MSPTC	Expiration date 389 days

Cookie name	Description
bcookie	Expiration date 364 days
lidc	Expiration date 1 day
UserMatchHistory	Expiration date 29 days
bscookie	Expiration date 364 days
li_gc	Expiration date 179 days
personalization_id	Expiration date 729 days