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On Wednesday, February 19, trades in USA have come to the end with mixed dynamics, after Federal Reserve meeting minutes showed officials haven’t agreed on a plan for when and how quickly to raise interest rates. The minutes of the Jan. 27-28 policy meeting showed Fed officials discussed the pros and cons of delaying versus moving quickly on interest rates, as well as how to remove from their policy statement an assurance that they would be patient about raising rates. The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported Wednesday morning that new housing starts in January 2015 slipped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.065 million, a decrease of 2% from the downwardly revised December rate of 1.087 million and an increase of 18.7% compared with the January 2014 rate of 897,000. The consensus estimate from a survey of economists expected a rate of around 1.070 million. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones has declined by 0.10%, S&P has lowered by 0.03%, Nasdaq grew by 0.14%.
European stock exchanges closed with growth of main indexes, with investors wagering that Greece will eventually hammer out a new financing deal with its international creditors and avoid exiting the eurozone. Greece will submit its request for an extension of its rescue deal on Thursday morning, a senior government official said Wednesday. There were also signs of calm in Greek assets. Athens stocks added 1.1%. Government bonds gained, with the Greek 10-year yield falling to 10.2%. UK employment fell to 5.7% for the three months to December – its lowest since July 2008 and below expectations for it to remain constant at 5.8%. The claimant count number of unemployed fell by 38.6 thousand during January, against expectations of a drop of 25 thousand expected by economists. On the day’s result, British FTSE remained unchanged, CAC 40 (France) grew by 0.95%, DAX (Germany) has increased by 0.60%.
March contractual price on Brent oil, decreased by $2.00 to $60.53 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened by growth, day passed with positive dynamics. Value of the UX index has increased by 4.12% to 1114.54. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 6.5 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 11.2 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 42.5 million.
All ten shares of an index basket have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Enakievo Metallurgical Plant (+9.67%) and Avdiivka Coke Plant (+7.70%).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are carrying out a planned and organized withdrawal of troops from Debaltseve. 80% of the units have already been safely withdrawn, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated at the airport Wednesday. Poroshenko added that the detachments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are leaving Debaltseve (the Donetsk region) with military equipment and weapons.
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral.
The Asian indexes are showing mixed dynamics today. Nikkei rose by 0.36%, Australia All Ordinaries declining by 0.14%.
Futures on American indexes are slightly changing today.
Russian indexes as of 9:35 EET are showing mixed dynamics — MICEX increasing by 0.09%, RTS lowers by 1.16%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market on neutral territory.
In the U.S. will be published initial jobless claims (15:30 EET) and Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index (17:00 EET).
ITT Investment group
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