Last closure
On Wednesday, December 23, trades in USA have come to the end with growth, on the last full trading day before the Christmas holiday. Orders for durable goods were flat last month following a 2.9% increase in October, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Wall Street was expecting a 1.1% decline. New U.S. single-family home sales in November rose less than expected and the prior month's increase was revised down, suggesting some loss of momentum in the housing market. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday sales increased 4.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 490,000 units. October's sales pace was revised down to 470,000 units from the previously reported 495,000 units. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones rose by 1.06%, S&P has increased by 1.24%, Nasdaq grew by 0.90%. The University of Michigan has released its final December reading on consumer sentiment. Its Index of Consumer Sentiment was revised to 92.6. Bloomberg and Dow Jones were both calling for a consensus reading of 92.0, and the final reading in November was 91.8. What stands out about this final December report is that the sentiment reading is bolstered handily by the current picture rather than by the expected outlook ahead. European stock exchanges closed with growth of main indexes, as investors picked up battered shares of commodity producers before trading wraps up for the Christmas break. The UK gross domestic product expanded by just 0.4% in the third quarter, down from a previous estimate of 0.5%. Meanwhile second quarter growth was revised to 0.5%, down from 0.7%. It means that while the economy has been expanding for 11 successive quarters, there has been little improvement in the pace of the recovery after it slowed sharply to 0.4% in the first quarter of 2015. On the day’s result, British FTSE rose by 2.60%, DAX (Germany) has increased by 2.28%, CAC 40 (France) grew by 2.34%.
Januarys’ contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $1.25 to $37.36 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened on neutral territory, day passed with positive dynamics. Value of the UX index has increased by 1.08% to 672.11. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 7.8 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 3.7 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 11.7 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, five have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Ukrnafta (+5.57%).
Both of the world's top bond credit rating companies - Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's - on Dec. 22 said they had upgraded Kyiv's outlook on foreign and local currency ratings from negative to stable. S&P improved its rating for Kyiv to “CCC+” from “D” following Moody’s steps.
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral.
The Asian indexes are showing mixed dynamics today. Nikkei has lowered by 0.51%, Hong Kong Hang Seng increasing by 0.44%.
Futures on American indexes are slightly decreasing today -0.1%.
Russian indexes as of 10:54 EET are showing mixed dynamics — MICEX decreasing by 0.14%, RTS growing by 0.67%.
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).
The U.S. and Europe stock markets will close early on Thursday and remain closed Friday for Christmas Day.
ITT Investment group
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