Last closure
On Friday, September 19, trades in USA have come to the end with mixed dynamics, as shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. began trading and corporate takeovers boosted investor optimism. Alibaba rose 38% to $93.89, the e-commerce company, which started in 1999 with $60,000 cobbled together by founder Jack Ma, is now valued at $231 billion. That makes it larger than Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc. combined. The Conference Board Leading Economic Index for the US increased 0.2% in August to 103.8 (2004 = 100), following a 1.1% rise in July, and a 0.7% increase in June. An increase of 0.4% had been forecast. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones rose by 0.08%, S&P has lowered by 0.05%, Nasdaq has decreased by 0.30%.
European stock exchanges closed with mixed dynamics of main indexes, as Scotland voted to reject independence from the U.K. Scotland voted to remain in the U.K. after an independence referendum that put the future of the 307-year-old union on a knife edge and risked years of political and financial turmoil. About 55% of Scottish voters supported the pro-union campaign. The eurozone's current account balance, a broad measure of an economy's international financial position, was in a surplus of 18.7 billion euros ($24.1 billion) in adjusted terms in July, above the EUR18.6 billion recorded in June. Germany's producer price index decreased by 0.1% on the month and fell 0.8% on the year in August, equaling the previous month's move. On the day’s result, British FTSE rose by 0.27%, CAC 40 (France) has decreased by 0.08%, DAX (Germany) has increased by 0.01%.
Octobers’ contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $0.69 to $98.39 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened on neutral territory, day passed w without certain dynamics. Value of the UX index has increased by 0.01% to 1044.33. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 12.5 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 4.4 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 42.9 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, six retreated. Leaders of growth were shares of Raiffeisen Bank Aval (+2.13%). Worse than market looked shares of Donbasenergo (-3.23%) and Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (-2.95%).
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that an agreement has been reached with U.S. President Barack Obama that the United States will give Ukraine $1 billion in financial guarantees. The consumer price index is expected to grow by 19% by the end of 2014, InterBusinessConsulting has reported, with reference to the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Premarket
External background at the opening is negative.
The Asian indexes are decreasing today. Nikkei has lowered by 0.71%, Hong Kong Hang Seng declining by 1.20%.
Futures on American indexes are decreasing today from 0.40% to 0.53%.
Russian indexes as of 10:00 AM are decreasing — MICEX decreasing by 0.3%, RTS lowers by 0.32%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market decrease.
ECB president Mario Draghi will testify before the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Committee at 4:00 PM.
In the U.S. will be published Chicago Fed national activity index (3:30 PM) and existing home sales (5:00 PM).
New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley conversation at conference in New York at 5:15 PM.
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