Last closure
On Thursday, August 25, trades in USA have come to the end with decrease, as investors looked ahead to a speech due to be delivered by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday which may provide clues on the direction of US monetary policy in coming months. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting the labor market was continuing to gain momentum. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 261,000 for the week ended Aug. 20. It was the third straight weekly decline in claims. New orders for U.S. manufactured capital goods rose for a second straight month in July as demand for machinery and a range of other products picked up, offering a tentative sign that a business spending downturn was starting to ease. The Commerce Department said on Thursday non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, increased 1.6 percent last month. On the day’s result, index Dow Jones has declined by 0.18%, S&P has lowered by 0.14%, Nasdaq has decreased by 0.11%.
European stock exchanges closed with decrease of main indexes, as investors were waiting for some kind of signal to come out of the Fed's annual summerfest. Business confidence in Europe's biggest economy, Germany, has fallen unexpectedly after the UK Brexit vote, according to a closely watched survey. The Ifo business confidence index, based on about 7,000 company responses, fell to 106.2 points for August from 108.3 in July On the day’s result, British FTSE has declined by 0.28%, DAX (Germany) has lowered by 0.88%, CAC 40 (France) has decreased by 0.65%.
Septembers’ contractual price on Brent oil, grew by $0.62 to $49.67 per barrel.
In Ukraine
Trades on the Ukrainian stock exchange opened by decrease, day passed in side dynamics. Value of the UX index has declined by 0.63% to 687.95. Share trades capacity on the application market was equal to UAH 0.5 million. Trades capacity on the derivatives market was equal to UAH 4.5 million. Total trades capacity for yesterday — UAH 12.4 million.
From five shares of an index basket, two have risen. Leaders of growth were shares of Donbasenergo (+1.68%). Worse than market looked shares of Motor Sich (-2.00%). Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved a bill amending the Tax Code of Ukraine regarding revision of some tax rates and sent it to parliament. Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said at a government meeting on August 23 that the excise, environmental tax rates and royalties will be revised, taking into account consumer price and industrial prices indexes.
Premarket
External background at the opening is moderately negative.
The Asian indexes are showing mixed dynamics today. Nikkei has lowered by 1.18%, Hong Kong Hang Seng declining by 0.32%.
Futures on American indexes are slightly growing today from 0.01% to 0.03%.
Russian indexes as of 10:02 EET are decreasing — MICEX decreasing by 0.07%, RTS lowers growing by 0.10%.
Our expectations
We expect opening of the Ukrainian market by decrease.
In Europe will be published data on GDP in the U.K. (11:30 EET).
In the U.S. will be published data on GDP (15:30 EET), Fed Chair Yellen speaks at 17:00 EET.
ITT Investment group
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