James Hardie Support At $18.00

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Regular readers will recall that we’ve had a bearish bias on JHX since it broke the $22.50 level in the early part of May.

At that time, the stock was trading at 27 times earnings on a 2.2% annual yield

A weaker US house construction market combined with a general contraction in US retail sales has kept shares of JHX offered over the last several weeks.

We maintain our downside target of $18.00 per share over the medium-term.

James Hardie

 

Bendigo Battered Again

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Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BEN) shares are down a further 2.7 % after losing  a whopping 4.4 % yesterday.

In addition to general weakness in the banking sector, shares of BEN are feeling the fallout from alleged accounting discrepancies from their reverse mortgage division, Home Safe.

From a technical perspective, the next significant level of support will be found around the August 8th lows of $9.75.

We would urge caution to investors considering buying BEN above the $10.00 handle.

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

 

 

Take Profits On TWE

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Back on February 15th, TWE announced that their first half net profit doubled to $136 million. Since then, the share price has traded from $11.20 to an all-time high of $13.63 yesterday.

We suggest taking profits in this price area or writing at-the-money covered calls to enhance the portfolio returns.

There’s no question that TWE has been a well-managed, success story in the beverage space and we’ll follow the ALGO engine to buy back in at lower levels.

Treasury Wine Estates

 

Gold Climbs To An 8-Week High…….NCM Up 1.5%

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On May 6th, we posted a report on Gold which suggested the yellow metal was holding support levels at $1220.00 and had a medium-term target of $1260.00. At this time, NCM was trading at $20.10

Gold traded as high as $1281 in early Asian trade today and NCM is finally joining the rally. The stock  has reached a two-week high of $21.78 and internal momentum indicators are looking constructive for a move higher.

We’re still expecting higher prices in both, with the next resistance level for gold at $1293.00, and the May 18th high of $22.20 for NCM.

Newcrest Mining

 

 

 

 

US Stocks Trade Higher On Weak Jobs Report

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The US unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 4.3%, a new multi-year low, but it is a misleading statistic for what was a very disappointing overall report.

Besides the decline in the unemployment rate, and a further decline in the under-employment rate (U-6) from 8.6% to 8.4%, there is little positive in today’s report.

Non-farm payroll growth fell to 138k, nearly 50k below expectations, which had been bolstered by the weekly jobs claims and the ISM jobs component.  Adding insult to injury, the back to months saw jobs growth revised 66k lower than first reported.

Moreover, the drop in the unemployment rate can largely be explained by the decline in the participation rate from 62.9% to 62.7%. This unwinds this year’s improvement in the participation rate, and bring it back to where it finished last year.

The  major stock indexes finished higher on the day, on thin volume, as the odds of a third rate hike for 2017 have been reduced

Buy The Pullback In Origin

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Origin Energy has been trading in a broad range between $6.70 and $8.10 over the last four months.

We recently took profits for client portfolios at $8.00 and are currently looking for a retracement into the $7.50 area to re-enter long positions.

The recent weakness in crude oil has had a dampening effect on various energy names. However, we feel Origin’s natural gas assets will keep the share price fairly well bid over the medium to longer-term.

Origin