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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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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The market review for December, 4st

Stock trades in the U.S. ended 3 December 2009. decrease in leading indexes. The worst predictions were some macroeconomic statistics, released both before and after the start of the trading session. So, not met the expectations of performance index of business activity in the services sector. According to the Institute for Supply Management, in November, the index fell by 1.9 points compared with the October value and amounted to 48,7 points. This was much worse than forecasts of analysts, who expected that the index will grow to 52 points, and brought fears that the economic recovery has slowed down.

There was more optimistic message of the Ministry of Labor (US Department of Labor), under which the rate of labor productivity in the United States in non-agricultural sectors in the III quarter of 2009., On the final data, seasonally adjusted rose by 8,1% compared with the previous quarter. Analysts expect that growth will be more significant (8.6%). At the same time better than analysts’ forecasts was the report of the U.S. Department of Commerce (US Department of Commerce) to reduce the number of initial applications for unemployment insurance during the week of 5 thousand – up to 457 thousand, analysts expect this figure will be 485 thousand

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