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00:00:00Good morning everyone and welcome to Wednesday Morning.
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00:00:02It's Stephen Whiteside here from The
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00:00:04UpTrend.com in the pre market this morning things are fairly quiet.
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00:00:08Stock index futures trading right around
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00:00:10fair value, while commodities are slightly lower on Wednesday morning.
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00:00:16Well, I'm not going to tell you anything new this morning.
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00:00:18Tuesday turned out to be a continuation day.
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00:00:21We saw the VIX make a new high that put
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00:00:24downward press on the major stock market indices on Wednesday.
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00:00:28We're looking for a close below $16.18 to give us a new sell signal for the VIX.
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00:00:33If that were to happen, that would be supportive for higher stock prices.
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00:00:38The US dollar index continued to move higher on Tuesday, putting downward
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00:00:42pressure on other currencies, including the euro and the Canadian dollar.
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00:00:46We saw bond yields continue to move higher on the back of lower bond prices.
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00:00:51Whether you're looking at the XBB or the
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00:00:53TLT or emerging market bonds or junk bonds, they all moved sharply lower on
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00:00:59Monday, with corresponding bond yields continuing to move higher.
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00:01:03Whether you're looking at the 5, the 10,
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00:01:05or the 30 year, all the bond yields moved up yesterday.
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00:01:09We talked about the downward pressure of bond yields moving up on the utility
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00:01:13sector, but if we just look at the overall financial sector, you'll see overall
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00:01:17weakness in financials, in US BankS, in the Regional Banks, in Broker Dealers, and
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00:01:23finally the Insurance Sector has broken down.
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00:01:26And of course we were watching the Insurance Sector outperform the rest of
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00:01:31the financial sector over the past couple of months.
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00:01:34Looking at the Canadian market, we had Canadian financials make a new low,
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00:01:38Canadian Banks make a new low on Tuesday, so no change in trend there.
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00:01:43Looking at the world of commodities,
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00:01:45starting off with the energy sector, we saw a little buying in crude oil
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00:01:49yesterday, that's being undone in the pre market on Wednesday morning.
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00:01:54We had natural gas trade up to the upper
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00:01:56channel line, so a close above 2.97 would give us a buy signal on Wednesday.
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00:02:00We've got energy inventories coming out
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00:02:02this morning at 10:30, so that could certainly shake up the energy sector.
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00:02:07Energy stocks in Canadian market moved up slightly.
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00:02:10In the US market, they moved down slightly, but no change in trend.
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00:02:15Moving from the energy sector to the
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00:02:17mining sector, we saw copper make a new low for this move yesterday.
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00:02:21Freeport held up fairly well, while we saw a new low for First Quantum.
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00:02:26Then looking at the price of gold, it moved lower yesterday.
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00:02:29It's down again in the pre market this morning.
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00:02:32Last time I checked, we're heading towards $1812.50.
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00:02:37That's our next mathematical price target.
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00:02:39We saw Barrick move up slightly yesterday, as did Agnico Eagle.
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00:02:44No change in trend for either of those stocks.
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00:02:47Of course, the price of silver continued to move lower yesterday, recovered most of
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00:02:51its losses going into the close, but still closed down on the day.
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00:02:55And you can see we made a new low for Pan
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00:02:57American before closing slightly higher, and that's also true for Wheaton.
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00:03:02Both making new lows and then recovering going into the end of the day.
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00:03:08Looking at the major stock market ETFs.
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00:03:11Starting with the Ishares for the TSX 60 and new low yesterday.
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00:03:15New low for the Dow for the S&P 500 but not for the Nasdaq.
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00:03:19The Nasdaq is still holding on to the lows
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00:03:22from last week, so those have not broken down just yet.
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00:03:26Okay, folks, that is all for this morning's presentation.
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00:03:29No major trend changes to talk about.
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00:03:31It looks like we're going to have a fairly quiet open on Wednesday morning.
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00:03:36Have a great day.
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00:03:37Next time you'll hear my voice is on Thursday morning.
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00:03:44You dam.