Stock futures are pointing to some losses on the last full trading day -- albeit likely a thin one -- before the Thanksgiving feasting begins. Investors will also wade through a mountain of data on Wednesday.
Recent stock losses have raised more doubts about a Santa rally, for some. Keep an eye on the 30-year Treasury yield , advises Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at Oanda.
"Until long-dated U.S. yields start reversing their recent gains, and the author has long believed that is not a given, we shouldn't expect an end to U.S. Dollar strength, nor should we be getting excited about equity markets for the rest of this month and possibly into Christmas," he told clients in a note.
Rising yields as investors know, are painful for tech stocks. "If interest rates rise faster than future growth expectations, then the net effect is negative on the present value and more so for growth stocks as they have a higher duration," Saxo Bank's head of equity, Peter Garnry, explained to clients in a note to clients on Tuesday.
Garnry provides our call of the day as he uses a bit of recent history to make a grim forecast about what a renewed rise in yields could do to tech stocks.
"We saw downside beta (higher sensitivity) in all of our growth equity baskets [on Monday] with the gaming basket down 2.3% and the worst performers being the E-commerce and Crypto & Blockchain baskets, down 4.2% and 5.1% respectively. This tells you a lot about the sensitivity and given the drawdown in technology stocks back in March, we could easily experience a 15% to 20% drawdown in technology stocks," he said. An asset is commonly defined as entering a bear market when it declines by at least 20% from its peak.
Garnry said highs reached earlier this year for the U.S. 10-year yield -- a 52-week high of 1.749% was reached Mar. 31 -- are key to watch for a "breakout and a new trading environment.
And one popular stock could be at the center of this, he said. "With all the options activity in Tesla dwarfing the combined options activity in FTSE 100 constituents, we believe Tesla will be at the center of the next risk-off move in technology," he added.
Tesla shares up 57% year-to-date, even as CEO Elon Musk keeps selling. He recently dumped another 934,000 shares for roughly $1.05 billion, bringing his total up to $9.85 billion since early November.
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