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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