The market review for June 14

The American stock market on Friday, June 11, opened lower prices of most securities. Before investors put into the quote too much optimism about the future of the U.S. economy, and Friday’s positive expectations have been partially allayed by the data published macroeconomic statistics. In particular, the volume of retail sales in May fell by 1.2%, while economists have predicted his rise to 0,2%. This is the first decline in eight months and quite a negative signal indicating the skepticism of ordinary consumers as to the medium-term prospects of the market. Do not have lasted until the April forecast and the amount of stocks in warehouses: its growth rate of 0,4% instead of the expected 0.5% and was minimal in recent years. Some raise the mood of investors could publish consumer sentiment index for June, calculated by the University of Michigan. From the May level (73.6 points) rose to 75.5 points and established at a maximum of two and a half years level. The interpretation of the growth index at odds with the situation in retail. On this background during the session on 11 June the Dow Jones index made a few attempts to approach the level of Thursday, and only in the last hour of trading managed to get a “plus”, which is a big success for the “bulls” in the light of rapid growth of the preceding day.

As a result of trades on June 11 the Dow Jones index rose 38.54 points (0.38%) – up to 10,211.07 points, NASDAQ rose 24.89 points (1.12%) – up to 2243.6 points, S & P added 4.76 points (0.44%) and amounted to 1,091.6 points.

Amid disappointing sales data by major trading network of the country were among the outsiders bidding. Quotes of the largest U.S. retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fell by 0,7%, The Home Depot Inc. – On 1,53%, Costco Wholesale Corp. – On 0,23%, Lowe’s Companies Inc. – On 1,51%, Gap Inc. – On 0,32%, Staples Inc. – At 0.73%. Given the fact that in the summer buying activity may continue to decline because of seasonality, promotions retailers have every chance to remain under pressure, of course, if the economy starts to show signs of active recovery, which is very doubtful. read more

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The market review for April 15

On Wednesday, April 14, trades on the American stock market began rising prices. Optimism for the most part was based on reports of strong semiconductor manufacturer Intel Corp. and one of the largest U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. After Alcoa Inc.failed to meet expectations on the eve of Experts on the part of the proceeds, the players began to doubt the success of the new season statements, but Intel and JPMorgan managed to dispel them. Published macroeconomic statistics were also quite good:Consumer prices in March rose in line with expectations at 0.1%, and increase the volume of retail sales for March exceeded projections by 0,4 percentage points Magnitude of changes in the last figure (1.6% in March) shows growth in consumption necessary for economic recovery.The tendency of people to savings falls, indicating that expectations of improving macroeconomic environment in the medium-term future.
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The market review for April 8

On Wednesday, April 7, trades on the American stock market started lower prices. There is still strong concerns about the ability of Greece to resolve debt problems, investors fear that Athens may revise the agreement on assistance from the EU and the IMF. In addition, two unsuccessful attempts to overcome the mark of 11000 items index Dow Jones instill fear, which is higher than the market can not rise, and hence there will be no inflow of new portions of investment capital. Against this backdrop, prudent bidders preferred to reduce the portion of long positions, while the indices did not go far from the many months of highs.

Only a short time was able to cheer up the players Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who reported the stabilization of the economy and the beginning of its growth. As noted by B. Bernanke, financial crisis for the most part passed, but there are still problems associated with an increase in the number of delinquency on mortgage loans, weak commercial real estate market and the negative situation on the labor market. But there is no problem with inflation, which will postpone the implementation of measures aimed at reducing the federal deficit. “But in the long term will have to choose between higher taxes and reduced public expenditure” – warned the head of the Fed.

As a result of trading on April 7th the Dow Jones index dropped by 72.47 points (-0.66%) – up to 10,897.52 points, NASDAQ – at 5.65 points (-0.23%) – up to 2,431.16 points, S & P – by 6.99 points (-0.59%) – up to 1,182.44 points.

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The market review for February 19

Thursday, February 18, trades on the American stock market began a small gepom down by weak data out of macroeconomic statistics on the labor market and lower-than-expected increase in the index of leading indicators. Last January he added, only 0,3%, while experts predicted an increase of 0,5% after the December increase of 1,1%. With regard to labor market data, the number of initial applications for unemployment insurance for the past week unexpectedly rose to 473 thousand, moreover, that analysts do not expect changes from the previous figure of 440 thousand In addition, 1.4% up in January, the index of production prices, nearly doubling the forecasts.
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