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Sell-off yesterday is a "touch" on 100D. Sector leadership during rising rates/ inflation --> Fundstrat Quant research shows Epicenter leads, but Technology holds its own

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STRATEGY: Bending, not breaking = market resilience continues to be underestimated

S&P 500 down 2% and Nasdaq down 3% on a "scared tape" day
Equity markets faltered sharply yesterday. And this was the worst day in markets in more than 6 months, even worse than the sell-off from the Evergrande debacle.

- did something change yesterday?
- there was angst around Washington turmoil (Sec Yellen said date of funding deadline 10/18)
- there is the Merkel loss
- there is the rise in rates
- there is the general fear of inflation
- there is general "October bad"

But actually, it was just a lot of reasons cited for what amounted to a very weak day for markets.

S&P 500 "touches" 100D -- again, an echo of last week's sell-off? -- aka double-bottom?
Well, if one wants to see any "half-fulls" in the price now, it is the S&P 500 touched its 100D moving average.

- the S&P 500 was skidding along 50D for the past few days (below)
- yesterday, S&P 500 fell off the 50D
- and slipped to touch the 100D

Thus, one could look at this as retest of the lows from last week. If this is the case, markets need to ...

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