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Thursday 12.24.2009

CURRENT MARKET SENTIMENT

The indices crawled up to finish at 10466 downside. A negative number is likely to

(Dow) and 1121 (S&P). The economic data will pierce the pivot possibly to the first support
determine the direction of the market. A level, yet the first level of resistance will act as
positive number will propel the market up the high.
with the pivot acting as the support on the

PRISM CALL
Futures are flat and are awaiting the jobless claims and durable goods numbers, the determinant of
the direction. Since there are no sellers, positive numbers may spike the market up. However, buying
the dips is very likely to be the best strategy.

ECONOMIC CALENDAR INDU & SPUZ TECHNICALS

TIME INDICATOR RANGE EXPECTATION PRIOR ACTUAL INDICES S2 S1 PIVOT R1 R2

8:30 Durable -1.3% to 0.5% -0.6% 0.2% INDU
am Goods Orders 2.1% 10411 10432 10465 10499 10520
(DOW)
SPUZ
8:30 Durables Ex 0.3% to 1.1% -1.3% 2.0%
am Transportation 3.0%
(S&P) 1114 1116 1119 1123 1125

8:30 Initial Jobless 450K to 470K 480K 452K

am Claims 490K

8:30 Continuing 5100K to 5170K 5186K

am Claims 5200K

10:30 Natural Gas -180 to - -173 -207

am Storage 160
Change

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 FOREIGN MARKETS NEWS

UAUA United, All Nippon Airways

MARKET PRICE
 %
and Continental apply to U.S. DOT
for approval of antitrust immunity
FTSE 5402.41 30.0303 0.56
& trans-pacific joint venture
DAX 5957.44 11.75 0.2 (13.09 +0.16)

HANG SENG 21517.0 188.26 0.88 Greece to borrow about 54 bln

euros in 2010 – Reuters
NIKKEI 10536.92 158.89 1.53

PFE Pfizer Lyrica receives

CHINA 3153.41 79.633 2.59 Complete Response Letter from
FDA for generalized anxiety
disorder monotherapy treatment
DOW STOCKS TO WATCH COMMODITY PRICES (18.58 )

STRONG WEAK COMMODITY PRICE
 BG Bunge to become 100% owner

of Usina Moema Participacoes SA
DD XOM (61.97 )
OIL 76.41 0.26
HPQ WMT OSK Oshkosh Defense awarded $54
mln delivery order for M-ATV
MMM JPM
GOLD 1096.3 3.00 armor kits (37.41 )
TRV HD
T FCC planning to wrest TV
spectrum for mobile broadband –
IBD

PCG PG&E tgt raised to $50 at

Jefferies following the filing of
2011 General Rate Case (GRC)
with California (44.75 )

FNM Fannie Mae discloses new

compensation arrangements in
filing (1.05 )

GG Goldcorp matches competing

proposal to acquire Canplats
Resources

CRNT Ceragon target raised to $13

at CL King on record subscriber
growth in India and Apple’s
forthcoming tablet (11.44 )

CYT Cytec Q4 EPS estimate raised

above consensus at Jefferies
(36.07 )

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 TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

Symbol S7 S6 S5 S4 S3 S2 S1 PIVOT R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7
Sectors
SPX 1108.23 1110.36 1111.68 1113.81 1115.94 1116.60 1117.26 1119.39 1121.52 1122.18 1122.84 1124.97 1127.10 1128.42 1130.55
INDU 10356.91 10377.64 10390.45 10411.17 10431.90 10438.30 10444.68 10465.43 10486.19 10492.56 10498.97 10519.69 10540.42 10553.23 10573.95
NDX 1820.03 1825.39 1828.70 1834.06 1839.42 1841.07 1842.72 1848.09 1853.45 1855.10 1856.76 1862.12 1867.48 1870.79 1876.15
XBD 113.73 114.13 114.38 114.78 115.18 115.31 115.43 115.83 116.23 116.36 116.48 116.88 117.28 117.53 117.93
BKX 41.75 41.99 42.15 42.40 42.64 42.72 42.80 43.05 43.30 43.37 43.45 43.70 43.94 44.10 44.35
TRAN 4050.21 4072.35 4086.03 4108.16 4130.30 4137.14 4143.95 4166.11 4188.28 4195.09 4201.93 4224.06 4246.20 4259.88 4282.01
OIX 679.23 681.68 683.19 685.64 688.09 688.84 689.59 692.05 694.50 695.25 696.01 698.46 700.91 702.42 704.87
OSX 189.06 190.43 191.28 192.65 194.02 194.45 194.87 196.24 197.61 198.04 198.46 199.83 201.20 202.05 203.42
XNG 537.15 539.50 540.95 543.30 545.65 546.38 547.10 549.45 551.81 552.53 553.25 555.60 557.95 559.40 561.75
CYC 821.48 824.64 826.60 829.76 832.92 833.90 834.87 838.04 841.21 842.18 843.16 846.32 849.48 851.44 854.60
UTY 414.76 415.95 416.69 417.88 419.07 419.44 419.81 421.00 422.19 422.56 422.93 424.12 425.31 426.05 427.24
DRG 306.71 307.69 308.30 309.28 310.26 310.57 310.87 311.85 312.83 313.14 313.44 314.42 315.40 316.01 316.99
RLX 407.30 409.06 410.15 411.90 413.66 414.20 414.74 416.50 418.26 418.80 419.35 421.10 422.86 423.95 425.70

Tradeables

SPY 110.63 110.87 111.01 111.24 111.48 111.55 111.62 111.85 112.09 112.16 112.23 112.46 112.70 112.84 113.07
DIA 103.35 103.56 103.69 103.90 104.11 104.17 104.24 104.45 104.66 104.72 104.79 105.00 105.21 105.33 105.54
QQQQ 44.73 44.86 44.95 45.09 45.22 45.27 45.31 45.45 45.58 45.63 45.67 45.81 45.94 46.03 46.17
QLD 56.76 57.11 57.33 57.69 58.04 58.15 58.26 58.62 58.97 59.08 59.19 59.55 59.90 60.12 60.48
IWM 61.10 61.43 61.64 61.98 62.31 62.42 62.52 62.85 63.19 63.29 63.40 63.73 64.07 64.27 64.61
OIH 116.28 117.05 117.53 118.30 119.07 119.31 119.55 120.32 121.10 121.33 121.57 122.34 123.11 123.59 124.36
XLE 56.36 56.57 56.70 56.91 57.12 57.19 57.25 57.46 57.67 57.74 57.80 58.01 58.22 58.35 58.56
FAZ 18.52 18.68 18.79 18.95 19.11 19.17 19.22 19.38 19.54 19.60 19.65 19.81 19.97 20.08 20.24
FAS 71.20 71.85 72.24 72.89 73.54 73.74 73.93 74.58 75.23 75.43 75.62 76.27 76.92 77.31 77.96
SRS 6.72 6.83 6.90 7.01 7.12 7.16 7.19 7.30 7.41 7.45 7.48 7.59 7.70 7.77 7.88
SDS 34.09 34.23 34.32 34.46 34.60 34.65 34.69 34.83 34.97 35.02 35.06 35.20 35.34 35.43 35.57
USO 35.92 36.25 36.45 36.77 37.10 37.20 37.30 37.62 37.95 38.05 38.15 38.47 38.80 39.00 39.32
SKF 23.43 23.56 23.65 23.78 23.91 23.96 24.00 24.13 24.26 24.31 24.35 24.48 24.61 24.70 24.83

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