Risk trade is clearly off the table. US dollar testing resistance at 79.5 and can see an interim pull back for reaching the resistance. The equity indexes are short term oversold and might look for any good news to bounce back. However note that this week is heavily loaded with news from Europe (Italy's auction on tuesday) and economic reports in the US (ISM index, Unemployment report).
Given the record thanksgiving retail sales in the US and not so depressed economic reports in the US, we can expect some kind of interim bottoming to occur in December. The worries from Europe is still lingering - its just that the can is kicked down the road further.
However, I decided to get the new set of tickers ready for getting into them when the opportune time shows up.. just to list a few .. FCX, MSFT, BIDU, ATVI, SNDK, FSLR, SBUX, UGL, CEF, SLW, UGX, NGD, GG, SLW .. Am not saying that I will get into all these, but just my initial list for further investigation ..
Last week's (week over week) market Sectors Returns and Internals: