Last closure
On Monday, February 9, trades in USA have come to the end with decrease. Higher oil prices initially provided a lift to energy stocks but concerns over what will happen to Greece and its debt weighed on markets. U.S. inflation is too low and Federal Reserve officials should wait for more evidence that it will return to the central bank’s official 2% target before raising interest rates, Fed governor Jerome Powell said Monday. Mr. Powell said recent progress on reducing unemployment was encouraging. But he added that the other side of the Fed’s mandate, stable inflation, was falling repeatedly short. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones has declined by 0.%, S&P has lowered by 0.%, Nasdaq has decreased by 0.%.
European stock exchanges closed with decrease of main indexes, with concern growing over the political situation in Greece as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reaffirmed his rejection of the country’s international bailout program. Investor confidence in the euro zone for February improved to the highest level in nine months, easing concerns over the outlook for the region's economy. In a report, market research group, Sentix said its index of investor confidence improved to 12.4 this month, from a reading of 0.9 in January. Analysts had expected the index to improve to 3.0 in February. On the day’s result, British FTSE has declined by 0.24%, CAC 40 (France) has decreased by 0.85%, DAX (Germany) has lowered by 1.69%.
March contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $0.54 to $58.34 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened by growth, day passed without certain dynamics. Value of the UX index has declined by 2.00% to 1034.53. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 5.5 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 10.3 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 28.3 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, eight retreated. Leaders of growth were shares of Avdiivka Coke Plant (+0.45%). Worse than market looked shares of Enakievo Metallurgical Plant (-7.46%).
National bank of Ukraine has decreased the official exchange rate to UAH 24.9562 for $1 on Monday. Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers held talks with the International Monetary Fund mission last weekend. Vice Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko told Agreement council. Kyrylenko also said that current IMF financial assistance could reach a historic high.
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral. China’s consumer price index plunged to 0.8% year-on-year in January, its lowest level since November 2009. The rise in the CPI was sharply down from the 1.5% recorded in December.
The Asian indexes are showing mixed dynamics today. Nikkei has lowered by 0.33%, Hong Kong Hang Seng increasing by 0.13%.
Futures on American indexes are growing today 0.21%.
Russian indexes as of 10:00 EET are rising — MICEX increasing by 1.23%, RTS growing by 1.31%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market decrease.
In the U.S. will be published JOLTs job openings (17:00 EET).
ITT Investment group
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