The crude, dollar and gold troika dominated the financial markets last week as analysts went nuts trying to explain how these affected each other and the equity markets.
With the dollar pausing its meteoric rise, crude moved between $111 and $120. Friday’s sell-off that came after a 30 per cent retracement of the decline from the recent peak at $147, implies that the support at $110 would be under severe pressure in the near term.
Dow Jones Industrial Average reversed higher from an intra-week trough at 11290, above the key short-term support at 11230 that we have been watching over the last couple of weeks. The S & P 500 is also putting up a resilient show. The key support for this index is at 1240. Though European and Latin-American markets stabilised last week, Asia remained turbulent. Many of the Asian indices such as Hang Seng, Shanghai Composite, Seoul Composite and Straits Times Index recorded new 2008-lows last week.
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