Tension Round The Conflict Between Russia And Ukraine Presses On The Markets

Yesterday’s trading session took place under pressure from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The main Russian indices lost more than 10%-12%, and shares of the largest companies which are counted as a part of the indices, lost from 5% to 20%. This morning at the opening of the trading session, the situation seemed to be stabilizing slightly, but the perspectives of the Russian market on the short-term prospective are not so bright. MICEX is up by 2.11% and RTS is increasing by 2.54%, shares of the companies are, in majority, in the green zone, but are adding insignificant amounts in comparison to yesterday’s fall.

The trading session in the United States was also influenced by negative moods surrounding the conflict in Ukraine, and indices closed the trading day in the red zone. Even good macroeconomic statistical data that was published could not give enough support to the market. Growth rates of personal income in January made 0.3%, while personal expenses 0.4%, at average forecasts of these indicators on 0.2% and 0.1%. Expenses on construction for January increased by 0.1%, though a decrease by 0.5% was expected, and December's growth rate was reconsidered towards a significant increase from 0.1% to 1.5%. At last, the index of economic conditions of ISM in the non-productive sphere in February made 53.2, at average expectations on the level of 52.

As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went down by 0.94% to the level of 16168.03 points, the S&P 500 decreased by 0.74% to the level of 1845.73 points, and the index of high-tech industries, Nasdaq Composite, went to a minus by 0.72% and reached a level of 4277.30 points.

The same picture was observed during the European session. Improvement of the statistics on the industry in Switzerland, the Eurozone, and Germany, were still unable to give considerable support to the exchanges. The British FTSE 100 index went down by 1.49% to a level of 6708.35 points, the Swiss SMI lost 2.29% and reached the level of 8281.01 points, and the German DAX decreased by 3.44% to the level of 9358.89 points.

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