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Market Signals for the US stock market S and P 500 Index and Indian Stock Market Nifty Index for the Week beginning February 22

Indicator	Weekly Level / Change	Implication for S & P 500	Implication for Nifty*
S & P 500	1918, 2.84%	Bullish	Bullish
Nifty	7211, 3.29%	Neutral**	Bullish
China Shanghai Index	2860, 3.49%	Bullish	Bullish
Gold	1227, -0.96%	Bearish	Bearish
WTIC Crude	31.96, 10.13%	Bullish	Bullish
Copper	2.08, 2.29%	Bullish	Bullish
Baltic Dry Index	315, 8.25%	Bullish	Bullish
Euro	1.111, -1.30%	Bearish	Bearish
Dollar/Yen	112.64, -0.50%	Bearish	Bearish
Dow Transports	7286, 3.37%	Bullish	Bullish
High Yield (ETF)	32.38, 1.19%	Bullish	Bullish
US 10 year Bond Yield	1.75%, 0.0%	Neutral	Neutral
Nyse Summation Index	-467, 30.06%	Bullish	Neutral
US Vix	20.53, -19.17%	Bullish	Bullish
20 DMA, S and P 500	1893, Above	Bullish	Neutral
50 DMA, S and P 500	1954, Below	Bearish	Neutral
200 DMA, S and P 500	2031, Below	Bearish	Neutral
20 DMA, Nifty	7307, Below	Neutral	Bearish
50 DMA, Nifty	7532, Below	Neutral	Bearish
200 DMA, Nifty	8000, Below	Neutral	Bearish
India Vix	20.92, -15.23%	Neutral	Bullish
Dollar/Rupee	68.71, 0.88%	Neutral	Bearish
Overall	S & P 500	Nifty
Bullish Indications	10	10
Bearish Indications	5	7
Outlook	Bullish	Bullish
Observation	The Sand P 500 and the Nifty bounced back last week. Indicators are bullish. Markets are back at resistance. Looking for a retest of the recent lows.
On the Horizon	Japan - CPI, Euro zone – German CPI, U.K – GDP, U.S – Consumer confidence data, Durable goods, Trade balance, GDP, Personal consumption data
*Nifty	India’s Benchmark Stock Market Index
Raw Data	Courtesy Google finance, Stock charts, FXCM
**Neutral	Changes less than 0.5% are considered neutral

The US market and Nifty rallied last week. Signals are bullish for the upcoming week. The markets are back at resistance and are likely to continue major breakdowns in 2016, looking for a retest of the recent lows. The critical levels to watch are 1940 (up) and 1900 (down) on the S & P and 7300 (up) and 7100 (down) on the Nifty. A significant breach of the above levels could trigger the next big move in the above markets. You can check out last week’s report for a comparison. You can also check out snapshots of the S and P 500 and Nifty Indices. Love your thoughts and feedback.

All is not Well with Global Financial Markets

It does appear that all is not as rosy as it used to be in the global financial market landscape:

First and foremost global shipping activity appears to have come to a screeching halt, as pointed out by Jeff Berwick via the Market Oracle and this likely has recessionary implications:

Secondly when a single bank's derivative exposure exceeds the GDP of a country or region you know you are bound to have problems as ETF daily news rightly points out the case of Deutsche Bank:

Thirdly as QuandaryFX points out via Seeking Alpha the S & P 500 starts turning down when manufacturing starts to turn down like we are seeing off late:

Last but not the least the Safehaven plunge into Gold,Treasuries & the Japanese yen is clearly taking hold as pointed out by Chris Vermeulen via CNA Finance: