Last closure
On Thursday, January 28, trades in USA have come to the end with growth, as the price of oil climbed for the third day in a row. Orders for durable goods fell a seasonally adjusted 5.1% last month, marking the biggest decline in a year and a half, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Economists had predicted a 1.6% drop. Initial jobless claims declined by a seasonally adjusted 16,000 to 278,000 in the seven days stretching from Jan. 17 to Jan 23. The four-week average of initial claims also tacked lower, down 2,250 to 283,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Pending home sales monthly index rose to 106.8 from a downwardly-revised 106.7 in November. The index was 4.2% higher compared to December 2014, marking the 16th-straight month of annual gains. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones rose by 0.79%, S&P has increased by 0.55%, Nasdaq grew by 0.86%.
European stock exchanges closed with decrease of main indexes, as the market was weighed down by downbeat data from the eurozone. Britain’s economy picked up pace at the end of 2015 but GDP growth for the year as a whole was down markedly. Official figures published on Thursday showed GDP expanded 0.5% in final three months of 2015, up from 0.4% growth in the previous quarter and in line with the consensus forecast of economists. On a year earlier, GDP was up 1.9%, after growing an annual 2.1% in the third quarter. This latest quarter marks the slowest annual expansion rate since early 2013. On the day’s result, British FTSE has declined by 0.98%, DAX (Germany) has lowered by 2.44%, CAC 40 (France) has decreased by 1.33%.
Februarys’ contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $0.79 to $33.89 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 declined by 0.97% to 632.44. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 7.6 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 11.5 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 21.2 million.
From ten shares of an index basket, three have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Enakievo Metallurgical Plant (+4.03%). Worse than market looked shares of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works (-5.26%) and Ukrnafta (-5.09%).
The board of the National Bank of Ukraine at a meeting on Thursday decided to retain refinancing rate at 22% per annum, the central bank said in a press release. The retaining of the moderate monetary and credit policy would allow mitigating risks for price stability that are strengthening due to turbulence in the global economy, as well as provide for achieving goals of reducing consumer inflation to 12% for the end of 2016 and 8% for the end of 2017, the NBU said.
Premarket
External background at the opening is positive.
The Asian indexes are growing today. Nikkei rose by 2.80%, Hong Kong Hang Seng increasing by 2.27%.
Futures on American indexes are growing today from 0.75% to 0.90%.
Russian indexes as of 10:42 EET are rising — MICEX increasing by 0.51%, RTS growing by 2.84%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market on neutral territory.
In the E.U. will be published data on CPI (12:00 EET).
In the U.S. will be published data on GDP (15:30 EET) and Michigan consumer expectations (17:00 EET).
ITT Investment group
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