The week ahead: The rout could continue. Here's why

The week ahead: The rout could continue. Here's why, After addition airy Friday, analysts say they would not be afraid to see stocks yield aim at January's lows in the anniversary advanced as investors anticipate two canicule of affidavit from Fed Armchair Janet Yellen.

Yellen's two canicule of affidavit on the abridgement afore aldermanic committees Wednesday and Thursday is the highlight of what promises to be addition airy anniversary in markets. One agitator that has been briefly removed is China, breadth markets are bankrupt for the Lunar New Year, and little abstracts is expected.

The Fed chair's affidavit comes as markets are afraid about the bloom of the abridgement and the Fed's declared ambition to abide on a amount hiking path. But the markets accept aswell priced out the achievability of a amount backpack for this year, over apropos that the abrasion abridgement and aged banking altitude could accord way to a recession. New York Fed President William Dudley this accomplished anniversary accent the Fed's apropos about banking conditions.

"She has to do what Dudley did. She'll say the abridgement seems to be weathering the storm well, but it's abortive yet, and there's still a storm, and as continued as there's still a storm, they're not traveling to accession rates," said Mark Zandi, arch economist at Moody's Analytics.

There are several bread-and-butter letters of accent in the anniversary ahead. The JOLTs address on job openings and about-face Tuesday will be important, afterwards the January application address showed a big abatement in hiring — just 151,000 payrolls — but a abruptness auto in accomplishment and a abatement in unemployment to 4.9 percent, due to added workers award jobs.

Those positives in the application abstracts aswell bend from the beck of black bread-and-butter letters that accept some afraid that the accepted bendable application could about-face into a bigger arrest or recession. There is aswell retail sales abstracts on Friday, a key apprehend on the consumer.

"There's a lot of burden on the Fed chair. It's absolutely a catchy bearings for the Fed. The abridgement doesn't attending too bad but it absolutely has weakened. They assuredly got liftoff, and now the bazaar is clamoring for at atomic a changeabout — to break on hold, if not some absolute action," said Gina Martin Adams, Wells Fargo Securities institutional equities strategist.

Stocks awash off berserk Friday, and the S&P 500 (.SPX) was off 3.1 percent for the anniversary to 1,880, afterwards three weeks of gains. LinkedIn (LNKD)'s balance disappointment beatific its shares down 43 percent, and drive names followed. Facebook was down about 6 percent Friday, and the IBB, iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) absent 3.2 percent.

"The bazaar absolutely has confused so actual defensively that it seems to me the bazaar is aggravating to amount in a actual cogent arrest in growth. As abundant as the bread-and-butter abstracts has attenuated it still shows expansion," said Adams.

Don Townswick, administrator of equities at Conning, said it's time to yield a added arresting tack now but investors shouldn't just dump stocks. "I anticipate the markets are cerebration recession. It's a little aboriginal to get in, but it's backward to get out. Why advertise stocks now that accept taken a lot of of the assault they're traveling to take?" Townswick said. He said if there is a recession, he expects it would be almost mild.

Adams said she will be watching the dollar (.DXY) in the anniversary ahead, abnormally for its acknowledgment to Yellen's testimony. She said the dollar is repricing bargain expectations for Fed amount hikes, and has floundered adjoin the euro and yen even as the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan (8301.T-JP) yield added abatement action.

The dollar in the accomplished anniversary absent 2.6 percent, its affliction achievement aback October 2011. But its losses helped stanch some of the affairs in oil. Still, West Texas Intermediate (@CL.1) awkward futures were down added than 8 percent for the week, catastrophe appropriate aloft $30 per barrel.

"The abstruse patterns say we can't abolish the achievability of traveling lower. It's a appealing anemic little accretion rally, as well. It just seems humans are accommodating to yield a wait-and-see attitude rather than 'buy on dips' mentality. About 40 percent of the assets from the low has been from energy's animation back," she said. "We haven't apparent annihilation in balance that generates a lot of optimism. The numbers are OK but display a arrest from breadth we were a few months ago. There's not a lot of acumen to stick your close out and yield a risk."

Adams said that if the bazaar break its January lows, she is searching for the S&P 500 to analysis an important breadth appropriate beneath 1,800. "The claiming would be to analysis that band afore we accord up the apparition and say this is a bigger banking bazaar alteration than we've had. … That's about as bearish as I'm accommodating to get appropriate now. That abutment band is appealing analytical for abutment of the abiding balderdash trend," she said.

Scott Redler, who follows concise abstruse at T3Live.com said it would not be hasty to see the S&P 500 analysis the 1,812 low from backward January aboriginal in the week. He said tech was the affection of the market, and has now absent its beat.

"High beta tech has now absent abounding drive and is in annoyed mode, and why wouldn't the S&P at atomic analysis the low ancient afore Yellen?" he said. "We're not at the lows, and there's no absolute agitator to buy. … The bazaar is not even as oversold. Why would anyone footfall in at a akin that's still 5 percent off the low of the year if there's even added abstruse accident than we had the endure time stocks were at that level?"

Redler said if the 1,812 akin is broken, the next akin to watch is 1,770, and if the affairs continues, 1,660 on the S&P.

China's acreage banal markets will be bankrupt all week, and the People's Bank of China should aswell be quiet.

"There's alone a brace of abstracts releases from the PBOC and it's money accumulation growth, so we're not assured any all-important abstracts absolution if the celebrations are traveling on," said Peter Donisanu, all-around architect at Wells Fargo.

"I anticipate it's traveling to accord us a breather. I anticipate one hopeful note, a argent lining out of this anniversary season, is the customer spending that's accepted to action central of China and outside, as well," he said.

Monday

Earnings: Hasbro, Yelp, 21st Century Fox, Loews, Diamond Offshore, Owens-Illionois, Owens and Minor

Tuesday

Earnings: Wendy's, Disney (DIS), First Data, Panera Bread, Western Union, Solar City, Wellcare Health, Regeneron, Viacom (VIAB), Spirit Airlines, Coca-Cola (KO), Sanofi

6 a.m.: NFIB survey

10 a.m.: Wholesale trade; JOLTs

1 p.m.: 3-year agenda auction

Wednesday

Earnings: Time Warner (TWC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Twitter (TWTR), Whole Foods, Tesla Motors, Humana, Sealed Air, Owens Corning, Nissan, Pioneer Natural Resources, iRobot, Flowers Foods, Rayonier, Zynga

10 a.m.: Fed Armchair Janet Yellen testifies afore House Committee on Banking Services

1 p.m.: 10-year agenda auction

1:30 p.m.: San Francisco Fed John Williams on bloom and the economy

2 p.m.: Federal budget

Thursday

Earnings: PepsiCo (PEP), Kellogg (K), Nokia, Molson Coors, Time Inc, Groupon, Pandora, Zillow, Teva Pharma, Borg Warner, Advance Auto Parts, CBS, KKR, FireEye, AIG, Activision Blizzard

8:30 a.m.: Initial claims

10 a.m.: Fed Armchair Janet Yellen testifies afore Senate Banking Committee

1 p.m.: 30-year band auction

Friday

Earnings: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Calpine, Buckeye Partners, Interpublic, Ventas, Brookfield Asset Management

8:30 a.m.: Retail sales; acceptation prices

10 a.m.: Customer sentiment; business inventories; New York Fed President William Dudley speaks on domiciliary debt and credit
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