The market review for April 23

Bidding on the U.S. stock market on Thursday, April 22, begin to reverse the quotes. Investors are concerned about the news from Greece, where the budget deficit in 2009. was revised from 12,7% to 13,6%, while gross debt was already 115.1% of GDP. International rating agency Moody’s on this background sovereign ratings downgraded Greece from A2 to A3. Over the last months rally bidders awaited the appearance of more or less weighty reasons for early profit taking, and finally got them. At least in the short term markets are expected to remain negative moods.

Published U.S. macroeconomic statistics have been mixed. Number of requests for unemployment benefit last week dropped, but not strong enough. Not very positive factor was the increase in March producer prices by 0,7%, while the expected increase of 0,4%. Formed from the manufacturers the possibility of increasing selling prices, of course, indicates a revival of the market, but rising inflation will provoke the Fed to speed up the process of tightening monetary policy that investors completely useless. The index of house prices in February fell slightly – by 0.2%. Better predictions were data on the volume of sales in the secondary housing market in March (sold 5.35 million homes, while the expected 5.25 million). Experts attribute this increase to government programs encourage home buying. Those who buy a house for the first time, receive a small monetary compensation.

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The market review for February 4

Wednesday, 3 February, the U.S. stock market dominated by negative sentiment. Investors, fearful of exit is not too optimistic macroeconomic statistics, chose to begin to fix profit, resulting in a tender opened gepom down. Published data on the number of created jobs in January, fears are not confirmed – decline amounted to 22 thousand against expected 40 thousand, thus index Dow Jones to return to the level of the closure Tuesday, and even slightly exceed it. However, the index of business activity in the service sector in January went weak (50.5 points vs. the expected 51 points), and the market again, a wave of sales.

The mood of bidders influenced and communication agency Moody’s that the United States sovereign credit rating could be downgraded in the future from its current “Aaa” (the highest degree of reliability), unless additional measures are taken to reduce the state budget deficit of the country. At the moment the United States maintains its rating due to the high degree of economic and institutional reliability. But amid the crisis has worsened the relationship between the size of government debt, the U.S. GDP and budget revenues. As expected, experts Moody’s, the figures from the U.S. will be weaker than in other countries with rating “Aaa”.
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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 15

Stock trades in the U.S. ended Jan. 14 increased the leading indexes. In the plus key codes brought high-tech companies, which quotations have grown in anticipation of reporting world’s largest manufacturer of chips for PCs Intel Corp., Which has provided its financial results after the end of the trading session. However, confident of growth in the market could not wait, as published by the macroeconomic news for the most part negative.

Securities Intel trade results added to the price of 2,5%. Optimism about the financial results of the company was justified: published after the close of trading accounts has exceeded expectations. Optimism spread to other company’s high-tech sector: Shares in computer technology International Business Machines (IBM) went up by 1,6%, a manufacturer of memory chips, Micron Technology – by 2,6%, and network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems – by 1,3%.

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On the threshold of great change

Maybe it’s my personal opinion, but I think that times are changing. Nobody can say for sure because it or not. The media give us a picture of the world, which is not accurate. Journalists say and write about the presidential primaries, the real estate market and the recent mergers of banks associated with the crisis in the mortgage lending sector, but the economy has been undergoing a significant transformation. Prediction of long-term trends – not my hobby – but it would be wise to prepare for some big changes. Perhaps it’s time to think independently and creatively. If you can come to this idea, you get a huge profit. read more

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