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• Stocks are still trading mixed but climbing off lows amid chatter of an impending Israeli ceasefire/hostage deal tomorrow that lent to late Monday risk-on tone. Narrow ranges persisted as focus remains on this week's PPI and CPI inflation measures on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, as well corporate earnings that kick off this week.
• Currently, the DJIA trades up 267.83 points (0.64%) at 42205.15, S&P E-Minis down 3.25 points (-0.06%) at 5862.5, Nasdaq down 137.1 points (-0.7%) at 19022.49.
• Energy and Materials sectors continued to outperform in the second half, support for the former tied to gains in crude (WTI +2.40 at 78.97): Valero Energy +5.29%, Marathon Petroleum +3.56%, APA Corp +3.25%. Materials led by Mosaic +7.49%, CF Industries +7.37%, Steel Dynamics +6.22% while Albemarle gained 4.99%.
• Utility and Information Technology sectors continued to underperform, electricity providers weighed on the former: Edison International down nearly 12% amid investigations into whether electrical equipment operated by SoCal Edison sparked a blaze in Hurst. Elsewhere, Constellation Energy declined 6.15% despite several agency upgrades, PG&E -4.19% and AES Corp -3.33%.
• IT sector shares remained under pressure as the Biden administration looked to curb semiconductor exports to China: Super Micro Computer -4.79%, Micron -4.17%, Palantir -4.25, Nvidia -2.53%.
• Reminder, the next round of quarterly earnings kicks off this week with Blackrock, Bank of NY Melon, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, US Bancorp, M&T Bank and PNC all reporting between January 15-16.

• RES 4: 1.2629 50-day EMA
• RES 3: 1.2607 High Dec 30     
• RES 2: 1.2482/2576 20-day EMA / High Jan 7 
• RES 1: 1.2367 High Jan 9 
• PRICE: 1.2169@ 19:52 GMT Jan 13
• SUP 1: 1.2100 Low Jan 10 
• SUP 2: 1.2087 0.764 proj of the Sep 26 - Nov 22 - Dec 6 price swing
• SUP 3: 1.2037 Low Oct 4 ‘23 and a key support 
• SUP 4: 1.2000 Psychological round number      

The trend condition in GBPUSD remains bearish and the pair traded to a fresh trend low on Monday. Last week’s move down confirmed a resumption of the downtrend and marks an extension of the price sequence of lower lows and lower highs. Note too that moving average studies are in a bear-mode position highlighting a dominant bear trend. Sights are on 1.2087 next, a Fibonacci projection. Initial firm resistance is at 1.2367, the Jan 9 high.

Seeing a bit of late session risk-on, Tsys softening ((TYH5 107-08, -4.5) while stocks climb off lower lvls, SPX Eminis near steady, DJIA outperforming, Nasdaq weaker but well off lows. Appears to be reacting to tweet making the rounds that "Israeli official says ceasefire-hostage deal may be reached tomorrow".