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 January 27

The mood in the U.S. stock market on Tuesday, 26 January, were more optimistic than many of the world trading floors. Certainly, fears of tighter monetary policy in China, have affected the American indexes. They started the day lower, but quickly went into the “plus” after the publication of the index value of consumer confidence in the U.S. economy. In January, the index rose to 55.9 points, while analysts had expected growth to 53.6 points. Thus, the index increased for the third time in a row and has already peaked more than a year. Additional optimism of investors gave an increased likelihood of re-election of Ben Bernanke to head the U.S. Federal Reserve – for 40 senators said they supported his candidacy, while last Friday there were only 26. Against this backdrop, the leading U.S. stock indexes have been most of the trading session on a positive territory, but the day they finished in the same place and began – in a small minus.

As a result of trading Tuesday, the Dow Jones index fell by 2.57 points (-0.03%) – to 10,194.29 points, NASDAQ – at 7.07 points (-0.32%) – to 2,203.73 points, S & P – at 4.61 points (-0.42%) – up to 1,092.17 points.
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The market review for January 26

Trading on the U.S. stock market on Monday, January 25, held at the “green” territory. The positive mood of investors seemed to shake the reported sales volume in the secondary housing market in December. Experts expect declining by 9,8%, but sales fell by 16,7%, which proved to be the most significant change over the past 40 years. However, the decline was quickly redeemed, as the main theme of the day still was the news about the likely re-election as head of the Federal Reserve System (FRS) the USA Ben Bernanke, who headed it into the present. Term of office expires next Sunday and the Senate is expected this week to vote for his re-election.

B. Bernanke, impressed investors so that he insisted on lowering a key interest rate to stimulate the economy and, consequently, contributed to the supply of cheap liquidity of banks and the growth of stock markets. In addition, bidders do not want any change, because at present the future and so extremely vague. Senior White House adviser David Axelrod said Monday that U.S. President Barack Obama is absolutely sure of reelection B. Bernanke, than in the largely pacified American traders.

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The market review for September, 25st

Stock trades in the U.S. ended on September 23 decline in major indexes. The fall in commodity prices affect the price of shares in the mining and energy sectors. So, against the background of lower metals prices, the largest paper in the U.S. gold miner Newmont Mining Co. and one of the largest in the world mededobyvayuschih company Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. fell 3,6% and 2,82% respectively.

As the analysts of the Moscow Stock Center, on Wednesday in the U.S. went out data on reserves of energy resources: oil and petroleum products for the week ending September 18, unexpectedly rose by 2.8 million barrels. In addition, on September 23 ended a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where the range of interest rates, as expected, was left unchanged – 0-0,25%. Representatives of the Reserve also made a number of important statements: interest rates will remain at such low levels for a long time, but inflation will remain low. According to them, the economic situation in the United States has improved slightly after a serious recession. Following the discovery of a neutral environment in the U.S. indices started to rise, updating the annual maximums. Nevertheless, after the announcement of the range of interest rates and further performances of head FRS of Ben Bernanke quotes began to be adjusted downwards. Among outsiders session should allocate oil and gas and banking sectors, and the best performing stocks were the telecommunications and engineering industries, the experts concluded. read more

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