Morning wrap (25.01.2022)

• Wall Street indices launched yesterday's trading lower and were set for another day of heavy losses. However, indices staged a massive reversal and managed to finish the day higher

• S&P 500 gained 0.28% (low: -4.01%), Dow Jones added 0.29% (low: -3.25%) and Nasdaq moved 0.63% higher (low: -4.9%)

• Stocks in Asia failed to benefit from improvement in moods on Wall Street. Nikkei dropped 1.7%, S&P/ASX 200 and Kospi moved 2.5% lower each while indices from China traded 1.3-2.1% lower

• DAX futures point to a higher opening of today's European cash session

• US Department of Defense said that 8.5 thousand US soldiers are ready to move to Eastern Europe and aid NATO

• Virtual meeting between the leaders of the UK, US, Germany, France, Poland and EU was held yesterday. Leaders agreed that Russian incursion into Ukraine must be met with swift response

• US Secretary of State Blinken said that he prefers to return to Iran nuclear deal but talks with Iran cannot drag for too long

• Japan will pay subsidies to gasoline wholesalers in order to halt price increases

• BoJ Governor Kuroda said that increase in commodity prices is a bigger factor in CPI acceleration than weak JPY

• Bitcoin reached a low slightly below $33,000 yesterday. However, cryptocurrency started to regain ground along with US equities and is now trading slightly below $36,000

• Precious metals trade mixed - gold trades flat, silver drops while platinum and palladium gain

• Oil trades higher on the day with Brent recovering back above $86.00 per barrel

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

US indices staged a massive reversal yesterday with Nasdaq-100 (US100) recovering over 5% off the daily lows. A bullish candlestick pattern with long, lower wick was painted at 14,400-14,500 pts price zone. Nevertheless, some weakness can be spotted today. Source: xStation5