Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Technical Levels—Not News— Become Main Driver of Markets

As much as Greece, the oil spill and the economy, the markets these days are moved by wild swings between technical levels that at times overshadow the underlying fundamentals.

"Technicals matter in this market," Pimco co-CEO Mohamed El-Erian proclaimed in a CNBC interview Tuesday, underscoring and perhaps understating just how much statistical measures of market behavior influence trading.

In particular, analysts have been watching support tests on the Standard & Poor's 500[.SPX 1115.23 25.60 (+2.35%) ] around the 1040 level and top-side resistance near 1110 as an important gauge for whether the market can stay out of the recently breached correction territory and resume the aggressive bull-market run that preceded it. read more

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