Last closure
On Thursday, April 16, trades in USA have come to the end with decrease, as investors digested a mixed batch of economic reports and Federal Reserve speakers in light of a stream of better-than-expected earnings. Stanley Fischer, the Fed’s Vice Chairman said the economy is already seeing a rebound but the rate of the recovery remains to be seen. The number of people who filed for unemployment assistance in the U.S. last week rose 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 294,000 from the previous week's total of 282,000. Analysts had expected initial jobless claims to fall by 2,000 to 280,000 last week. The number of building permits issued in the U.S. fell by 5.7% last month to a seasonally adjusted 1.039 million units from February’s total of 1.102 million. Analysts expected building permits to fall by 2.0% to 1.080 million units in March. Manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia-region expanded of 7.5 this month from March’s reading of 5.0. Analysts had expected the index to rise to 6.0 in April. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones has declined by 0.04%, S&P has lowered by 0.08%, Nasdaq has decreased by 0.06%.
European stock exchanges closed with decrease of main indexes. Investors kept a wary eye on Greece as the country’s cash crunch intensified, with a debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund and a large wage and pension bill both due at the beginning of May. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that Greek officials had informally approached the IMF for a delay to repayment, but were rebuffed. On the day’s result, British FTSE has declined by 0.51%, CAC 40 (France) has decreased by 0.57%, DAX (Germany) has lowered by 1.90%.
May’s contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $0.08 to $60.40 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened on neutral territory, day passed without certain dynamics. Value of the UX index has increased by 0.05% to 1022.20. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 4.3 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 17.7 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 33.1 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, seven have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (+3.01%). Worse than market looked shares of Ukrnafta (-3.84%).
The deliveries of gas and energy to the territory of Donbas occupied by the terrorists came out at $1 billion to the state budget of Ukraine. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk declared at a meeting of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council.
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral.
The Asian indexes are showing mixed dynamics today. Nikkei has lowered by 1.17%, Hong Kong Hang Seng increasing by 0.22%.
Futures on American indexes are decreasing today from 0.10% to 0.13%.
Russian indexes as of 10:05 EET are decreasing — MICEX decreasing by 0.11%, RTS lowers by 0.12%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market on neutral territory.
In Europe will be published data on CPI in the E.U. (12:00 EET).
In the U.S. will be published CPI (15:30 EET) and data on Michigan consumer sentiment (17:00 EET).
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