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On Monday, May 19, trades in USA have come to the end with growth, as Internet and small-cap shares extended a rebound from losses last week. Pandora Media Inc., TripAdvisor Inc. and Netflix Inc. increased more than 4.2% to lead gains in Internet stocks. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said Monday he's thinking a lot about getting central bank monetary policy back to a more traditional profile over time. Mr. Williams was speaking as part of a panel discussion with Dallas Fed leader Richard Fisher, at the Bush Institute in Dallas. The officials spoke on the economic and monetary policy issues that currently confront the nation. Mr. Fisher again lamented the performance of Congress, which was amounting to a brake on growth the Fed cannot overcome with aggressive stimulus. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones rose by 0.12%, S&P has increased by 0.38%, Nasdaq grew by 0.86%.
European stock exchanges closed with mixed dynamics of main indexes. Bundesbank’s President Jens Weidmann said Monday that even though the ECB is concerned about a strong euro, “it would be shortsighted to only take one side of the exchange rate into view”. Deutsche Bank AG slid 1.7% after Germany’s biggest bank sold about 60 million shares to the Qatari royal family as it said it will raise 8 billion euros ($11 billion) in its second-biggest capital increase. On the day’s result, British FTSE has declined by 0.16%, CAC 40 (France) grew by 0.30%, DAX (Germany) has increased by 0.31%.
Junes’ contractual price on Brent oil, decreased by $0.38 to $109.37 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened by growth, day passed without certain dynamics. Value of the UX index has increased by 3.41% to 1118.18. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 9.3 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 5.5 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 32.7 million.
All ten shares of an index basket have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Motor Sich (+3.99%) and Centerenergo (+3.56%).
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to pull Russian troops back from the border with Ukraine to their permanent garrisons. A reminder that on May 7, Putin said that Russia withdrew its troops from the border with Ukraine, and they were supposedly only in the zone of regular exercises. However, this was not true. And now, NATO notes that Russian troops continue to stay near the Ukrainian borders. “We see no change”, a NATO official said.
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral.
Ukraine will get first 100 mln euros in aid from EU on Tuesday. Vice President of the European Commission Siim Kallas will pay a visit to Kyiv on Tuesday to discuss with the Ukrainian government the use of macro-financial assistance from the EU. German Producer Price Inflation fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of -0.1%, from -0.3% in the preceding month. Analysts had expected German Producer Price Inflation to rise 0.1% last month.
The Asian indexes are growing today. Nikkei rose by 0.49%, Hong Kong Hang Seng increasing by 0.39%.
Futures on American indexes are slightly changing today from -0.05% to -0.01%.
Russian indexes as of 10:00 a.m. are decreasing — RTS decreasing by 0.32%, MICEX lowers by 0.04%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market by growth.
In Europe will be published consumer price index in the U.K. (11:30 AM).
In the U.S. will be published retail chain store sales index (2:45 PM) and Johnson Redbook index (3:55 PM).
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser speech on the economic outlook in Washington will start at 7:30 PM.
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