10am update – opening weakness

US equities open moderately lower, as indexes look set for net daily declines. VIX printed 16.12, if already cooling back. Copper printed $3.90, a push >$4.00 would be VERY significant.

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VIX’60min

Summary

Early weakness, but clearly nothing that merits hysteria.
Daily charts offer 4910/4900 before the weekend.


notable stock: NVDA

Earnings are due in AH. From a purely cyclical perspective, the setup leans to the bears for Thursday.

notable stock: AMZN

Set to join the Dow’30 next Monday morning.
Its long overdue.

notable weakness: WBA

Walgreens being replaced by Amazon.

notable energy: SLB

Battling upward… with oil trying to re-take the $78s.