Last closure
On Thursday, January 29, trades in USA have come to the end with growth, as earnings boosted consumer shares and materials producers. Boeing Co. and McDonald’s Corp. extended rallies to more than 5%, pacing gains among large-cap stocks. The National Association of Realtors pending home sales index, which tracks contract signings for purchases of previously owned homes, dropped 3.7% in December from the prior month, its largest one-month decline in a year. Economists had expected pending home sales would rise 0.6% in December from the prior month. Initial jobless claims fell sharply last week to 265,000, the lowest level for initial jobless claims since April 15, 2000. Expectations were for claims to come in at 300,000, down slightly from last week's 307,000 number. Last week's number was revised up slightly to 308,000. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones rose by 1.31%, S&P has increased by 0.95%, Nasdaq grew by 0.98%.
European stock exchanges closed with growth of main indexes. German consumer prices fell 1.3% in January are were down 0.5% from a year earlier. The declines were larger than had been anticipated, and mark the first time in more than five years that consumer prices have been in negative territory on an annual basis in Europe’s largest economy. The German data underscored the European Central Bank’s struggle with stubbornly low inflation levels as well as lackluster growth in the eurozone, problems that prompted the central bank last week to launch a debt-buying package valued as much as 1 trillion euros ($1.13 trillion). The number of German unemployed fell 9,000 in January after seasonal variations in the data, following a 25,000 drop in December. Analysts had forecast a decline of 10,000 for January. On the day’s result, British FTSE has declined by 0.22%, CAC 40 (France) grew by 0.44%, DAX (Germany) has increased by 0.25%.
Februarys’ contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $0.66 to $49.13 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened on neutral territory, day passed with negative dynamics. Value of the UX index has declined by 0.82% to 988.74. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 1.6 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 5.1 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 22.5 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, seven ed retreated. Leaders of growth were shares of Krukivsky Carriage Works (+1.97%). Worse than market looked shares of Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (-4.69%).
The situation in the ATO area remains tense. The terrorists continue to fire at the positions of the ATO forces and towns. In the area of Mariupol the militants' Grads fired at Novoselivka Druha.
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral.
The Asian indexes are showing mixed dynamics today. Nikkei rose by 0.39%, Hong Kong Hang Seng declining by 0.19%.
Futures on American indexes are changing today from -0.29% to +0.20%.
Russian indexes as of 10:00 EET are rising — MICEX increasing by 0.80%, RTS growing by 0.98%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market on neutral territory.
In Europe will be published CPI and unemployment in the E.U. (12:00 EET).
In the U.S. will be published GDP (15:30 EET) and data on Michigan consumer expectations (17:00 EET).
ITT Investment group
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