Last closure
On Wednesday, January 27, trades in USA have come to the end with decrease, as the Federal Reserve held U.S. interest rates unchanged. The Fed said in its policy statement that it is “closely monitoring” developments in global economies and markets but stopped short of saying such developments could restrain economic activity and push down inflation. Sales of new single-family homes in the United States surged in December rose 10.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 544,000 units, the highest level since February. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its weekly petroleum status report Wednesday morning. U.S. commercial crude inventories increased by 8.4 million barrels last week, maintaining a total U.S. commercial crude inventory of 494.9 million barrels. The commercial crude inventory remains near levels not seen at this time of year in at least the past 80 years. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones has declined by 1.38%, S&P has lowered by 1.09%, Nasdaq has decreased by 2.18%.
European stock exchanges closed with growth of main indexes, as oil gave back some of Tuesday's gains. German consumer confidence index showed a score of 9.4 points for February, unchanged from January, the Nuremberg-based market research group GfK said Wednesday. Economists had expected slight easing to 9.3 points. On the day’s result, British FTSE rose by 1.33%, DAX (Germany) has increased by 0.59%, CAC 40 (France) grew by 0.54%.
Februarys’ contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $1.3301 to $33.10 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 2.12% to 638.62. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 2 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 6.7 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 16.6 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, three have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Avdiivka Coke Plant (+3.13%). Worse than market looked shares of Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant (-20%), Enakievo Metallurgical Plant (-10.49%) and Krukivsky Carriage Works (-8.69%).
Premarket
External background at the opening is neutral.
The Asian indexes are decreasing today. Nikkei has lowered by 0.71%, Hong Kong Hang Seng declining by 0.13%.
Futures on American indexes are growing today from 0.31% to 0.84%.
Russian indexes as of 10:40 EET are rising — MICEX increasing by 0.27%, RTS growing by 1.09%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market on neutral territory.
In Europe will be published data on GDP in the U.K. (11:30 EET) and CPI in Germany (15:00 EET).
In the U.S. will be published initial jobless claims (15:30 EET), durable goods orders (15:30 EET) and data on pending home sales (17:00 EET).
ITT Investment group
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