Jan 8th, 2016 Featured guests:

Ron Insana, CNBC contributor and author of Insana Market Intelligence

Efrem Hoffman, Founder and CEO of Running Alpha Capital Markets Intelligence

Michael Corcelli, Alexander Alternative Capital

Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz

Invited back on the Feb 10th live show with Benzinga PreMarket PREP, featured guest Efrem Hoffman, informs the audience the imminent rebound and outperformance in tech and industrial enterprises like General Electric ( GE ), which a bullish thesis was made for its transformation into a leading contender in the race for industrializing the internet complex for connecting our planet with smart sensors and predictive software analytics-as-a-service platforms. This live radio session became the basis for an article ( click here for full content ) written by the Editorial Producer for PreMarket Prep.

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As the founding strategist of RunningAlpha.com,  even though Efrem Hoffman is providing a fundamental backdrop for why these global market ideas discussed below are compelling alpha opportunities, the quantitative analytics upon which his confidence rests on these expected outcomes are 100% objective and rooted strictly on Running Alpha’s  Proprietary New Data Science Research Framework & Platform: Bottom-Down Perception Analytics ( BDPA ) Technology ( click here for a recent article written by a third-party Swiss-Based though-leader in FinTech Innovations serving the Digital Wealth Management and Intelligence Community. For review all our recent media attention and article posts, visit our Home Page Frequently at: RunningAlpha.com ).

For your musing after the Easter long weekend, here is a mash-up of ideas in no particular order.

Just to be clear when reading the commentary,  it should be noted that the recent rally of late has significant potential to make an interim peak sometime in mid April, which would open up a more favorable buying opportunity on a natural retracement ( within the larger scale uptrend that should remain intact ), which after first or second week of May should build enough energy to lift market higher into the summer months. The Big Theme I was trying to get across is that no matter how aggressive segments of the USA market play into a bullish bias this late spring and summer, emerging markets like Brazil, and agricultural markets like sugar and ETFs like DBA, USA companies like Archer Daniels ( ADM ) and CAT will likely have more of a tail-wind supporting the rally, albeit on balance this year the USA market should perform tremendously well, outside of brief pockets of turbulence that should not last longer than a few weeks at most.

Sugar and Soybeans, particularly Soybean Meal and specialty Agricultural ( AG ) chemical prices ( Industy Related Stock Symbol of note: SQM — operating in Chile; and also trading in USA markets ) have a long term buy signal kicking in; and especially when these commodity price trades above current local monthly high on a weekly basis, they will likely surge into this spring/summer period.  Supply shortages in Sugar, brought about by persistent drought conditions amplified by the El Nino effect, and  coupled with an extreme reversion trade in these areas of note — so buying near these lower levels and on intra/inter-day retracements open up a great opportunity for alpha creation.

Rogers Sugar ( RSGUF ) is one of the best ways to express the pending rise in sugar prices, while exchange traded funds DBA and UAG shoulds benefit handsomely from the rebound in the agricultural goods market. Offering attractive valuations, ADM, CAT, and irrigation equipment maker, VMI ( more attractive on local retracements in 2016 ) will likely be among the stronger U.S. domestic beneficiaries of these emerging trends.

As for emerging markets benefiting from these trends, Brazil ( Exchange Traded Fund EWZ ), being the biggest exporter of sugar, and a sizable exporter of soybeans, should really benefit greatly. Also, iron ores, a significant export, will also help improve Brazil’s GDP, given that the iron ore and metals complex has turned the corner and is likely to see a continued rebound. SID and GGB are two Brazilian companies highly levered to this trend, and sporting favorable outlooks, so hold and add on the lower side of current trend. ITUB is one particular bank in Brazil that looks to benefit from the turnaround in the economy.

The S&P Metals Index ( XME ), Small Cap Gold Stocks (GDXJ) as well as GDX, along with Silver Miners ( SIL ), and silver stocks like Silver Wheaton ( SLW ) and PAAS will likely benefit from near record low interest rate policies around the world. So keep buying these equities on anyretracements in gold prices along the way, as these equities will continue outperforming the underlying contract. Following this current and pending runupexpected this Spring, , silver will really begin getting a boost and accelerate its pace northbound with shock and awe on its second leg of recovery in the second half of the year.

Chile ( Exchange Traded Fund Symbol: ECH ) is also starting to look attractive here, particularly once local resistance is exceeded, so thereafter buying on retracements will be the order of the day. Chile benefits from rising Copper Prices, as they are a huge exporter of Copper Ores. Demand for Lithium oxides are also on the rise given the increased demand for infrastructure development of Lithium Batteries, from the likes of tech projects such as the TESLA  GigaFactory. Specialty chemical companies like SQM will also likely get rewarded from the anticipated bullish developments in the AG space; and so should Electric Utility companies like ENI benefit, which will likely show increased electricity transport activity during periods of higher expected industrial out.

South Korea ( EWY ) will also likely benefit from an extreme mean reversion — amidst the backdrop of one the most favorable PE valuations for emerging market companies of scale, the Korea Central Bank’s dovish interest rate policy add a tail wind to the sail. Being a large exporter to China, China will need to turn the corner for Korea to see out-sized gains. Based on Running Alpha intelligence sources, I do expect China to turn the corner this year in a couple phases — first the exchange traded fund, CNXT ( a small and mid caps concentrated fund tracking the 100 largest capitalized companies on Shenzhen and China A shares market ) and GXC ( an S&P tracking fund for the China Broad Market Index ) will likely benefit most from such a turnaround. The first phase of recovery will be this Spring once price takes out the local resistance of late — with buying opportunities on retracements. Then, again in the fall, a monster rally will likely envelop the emerging market indices, including among China, India, Brazil.

The exchange Traded Fund, EPP — Pacific Ex Japan also looks set to be a good performer this year — focus on buying on inter/intra-month weakness in this market.

As for domestic USA markets, mid to late April will see a potential pullback after reaching an interim peak near there; so look for a sector rotation in April — Big U.S. Pharma is on the watch list after April 4th — IHE and XLV are two ETFs that would benefit along with MRK once recent local resistance of late is taken out thereafter. Until then, these names will remain laggards indeed, but anger is in the air in this equity sector space, so a ripe time for an arb opportunity is pending near. Any pullbacks no matter how sharp or volatile will be short-lived, and another huge rally, including emerging markets is expected in May, particularly starting after May 5th, or perhaps after May 10th, but then onward into summer, especially emerging markets have great potential to move aggressively higher. This should dramatically boost consumer and investor confidence, and by the time November rolls around another monster mega rally into year end is likely in the USA and emerging markets.

So, to sum it up, outside of any given two to three week window, where retracements will take place along the way in 2016, expect sentiment and performance trends to revisit the good old days of the mid to late 1990s. Different factors at play, but similar euphoric outcomes.

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