The leading indexes on the world exchanges reported a steady growth on Thursday, which cut the negative series of recent days. Impact did the press conference by Jean-Claude Trichet and good data on U.S. trade balance. The meeting of the OPEC also affected, in addition to a sharp jump in oil by over 3%, lead to increased inflation fears. The regular meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB) on interest rates expected no change. After the meeting it became clear that will be monitored with caution inflation and probably next month will lead to a renewed increase in interest rates. Earlier in the day the Bank of England (ATSB) has also left unchanged the base rate in the UK at 0.5%, highlighting the cause weak economic recovery. At the end of the day leading French CAC 40 index closed at 3878.65 (1.06%) points from all 40 companies only financial giant Credit Agricole closed in the red.
In Germany, the DAX 30 rose to 7159.66 (1.41%), with distinction BMW (+3.16%) and Volkswagen (+3.03%). The London’s FTSE 100 advanced to 5856.34 (0.84%) points. The positive sentiment in the United States were boosted by an unexpectedly good data on trade balance as a reason strong exports and decreased imports of petroleum products.
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The stock market indexes in Asia were able to achieve slight growth in today’s session after three consecutive days of decline, supported by increases in shares of mining and energy sectors. They are ranked among the best performers in today’s trading after prices of metals and oil prices rose. The shares of Sony rose 2.7 percent on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after management predicted that the company will return to profit in fiscal 2011. The largest exporter of Japanese electronics out of the net loss of 3.2 billion dollars for the fiscal year ended in late March 2011. The regional index MSCI Asia Pacific has achieved a slight growth of 0.2 percent to 131.90 points in today’s volatile session. Last three weeks have brought losses on the stock index against the consequences of the earthquake in Japan on 11 March and the introduction of more stringent policy of many central banks in the region. The leading Japanese Nikkei 225 index rose 0.2 percent to 9 477.17 points, while the exchange in Sydney S & P / ASX 200 lost 0.3 percent to 4 628.80 points. Mining companies have brought an increase of 0.3 per cent of South Korean index Kospi, after copper prices rose 1.6 percent.
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The price of crude oil returned below $ 100 a barrel in electronic trading today in Asia after the session ended yesterday with a minimal increase, holding up over 101 dollars a barrel. The U.S. light crude for delivery in April cheaper by 1.7 percent to 99.48 dollars per barrel, as many factories, power plants and oil refineries in Japan remained closed for a second day today due to damage caused by the devastating earthquake on March 11. The six closed refineries processed 29% of the country’s imported crude oil. This could reduce demand for energy raw materials from the third-largest economy in the world after USA and China. In regular trading yesterday in New York oil rose 3 cents to 101.19 dollars per barrel. In the early hours of the trading price dropped to 98.47 dollars. The reason for this accident occurred in nuclear reactors of nuclear power in Fukushima, which raised concerns about the safety of nuclear power worldwide. The EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said the upcoming rigorous view of safety standards in European reactors could lead to suspension of some of them transmit Wall Street Journal. In the event that a reduction of nuclear facilities in Japan and other major countries, this may increase demand for oil for energy generation, say analysts. For small increases in oil prices yesterday helped and unrest in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia sent troops in Bahrain.
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The crude oil price broke up and re-pass $ 100 a barrel in the hours after the regular session of the oil exchange in New York today. The reason for this were clashes between demonstrators and security forces in the capital of Iran – Tehran on Tuesday. They reinforced fears that oil supplies from the Middle East and North Africa will be violated. Iran is the second largest oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after Saudi Arabia. The country has harvested 3.7 million barrels per day in February. In addition to increased oil prices, unrest in Iran affected and the leading stock index in Saudi Arabia, which fell heavily because of fears that the protests could be transposed into Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, rebels against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi renewed their clashes with security forces remained loyal to the Libyan leader. The rapid developments in the Middle East and North Africa, where he focused much of global oil stocks rose by 5% the price of U.S. light crude in February with over 11% of the price of Brent variety. In today’s electronic trading, U.S. light crude rose by 0.5 percent to 100.15 dollars a barrel after yesterday jumped 2.7 percent to 99.63 dollars per barrel.
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The share prices on stock exchanges in Asia and the Pacific continued to fall for the fourth consecutive session, with the leading stock index in China’s Shanghai Composite increased its loss for the period to over 10%. The securities markets in China experienced the strongest decline from August 2009 until now because of growing concerns about monetary policy the central bank and the government’s intentions to control the pace of economic growth. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday that Beijing is considering measures to reduce the appreciation of food because of rising inflation in the country. Food prices were 10.1 percent above their levels of last October. This increase concerns that measures to curb inflation in China will reduce consumption of raw materials and the economic growth rates, which depress the prices of most traded goods delivered Bloomberg. Auctions of shares today fell regional index MSCI Asia Pacific by 0.9 percent to 129.47 points and earned him the biggest four-day loss since August 2009 amounted to 4%. The decline in metal prices fell and oil shares of mining and energy companies in the region, while the loser among the national index was Hang Seng. He slid 2 percent to 23 214.46 points after three days of record high turnover traded. Shanghai Stock Exchange broader Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.9% to 2 838.86 points and thus increase its loss for the last four sessions to 10.13 percent. Chinese central bank in October increased its key interest rate by an unexpected 2.25% to 2,5%, last week raised the minimum reserve requirements of large banks in the country.
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Today’s session began on Wall Street with strong increases in the indexes in line with the positive wave that swept and securities markets in Asia and Europe. Investors welcomed the better than expected sales figures for new homes and orders for production of durable goods in the U.S., which showed the economy recover. Before the start of stock trading today showed that new orders for the production of durable goods in the U.S. jumped 2.9 percent on a monthly basis in April, which was twice as high as expected. The reported growth also is fourth in the last five months, which predicts greater activity in the manufacturing sector of the country. Even more encouraging were the data on sales of new U.S. homes last month, which increased to 504 thousand housing units annually. This is 15% above the March level and their highest value in the past two years. Sales of new homes are leading indicator for the state of the economy and consumer attitudes. The index of the 30 largest U.S. stock market liquidity and Dow Jones IA companies increased by 1.3% to 10 170.87 points and a half hours after the start of the session. The broader S & P 500 advanced at the same time with 1.2% to 1 086.73 points and Nasdaq Exchange main index Nasdaq Composite rose by 1.6% to 2 246.96 points.
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The main stock indexes in the U.S. began to decline for the first trading week, continuing losses from the previous two sessions. Literally in the last minutes before the close of the market, however, shares began to recover and could be out of positive territory, although a few hours earlier had achieved reductions of around 2%. In bearish sentiment on the day stood back to Greece worries and debt problems in other European countries. Negative forecast disclosed in the chain stores for household goods Lowe’s Cos., Also outweigh the market. “The market and its players do not believe that the plan for Europe associated with the suspension of high costs and reducing debt will work without first have a significant impact on the economy,” Kevin told MarketWatch Gidis brokerage company of Morgan Keegan. For registered gains against the backdrop of these concerns helped technology stocks and those in the field of trade. Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.06 percent to 10,267 points, the broad S & P 500 recorded a growth of 0.1 percent to 1137 points, and Nasdaq Composite increased in value by 0.3 percent to 2354 points. Chain Lowe’s Cos., Which is second largest sector in the U.S., announced yoy growth of 2.7 percent in profit to 489 million dollars for the first fiscal quarter ending in late April. The result was higher than average forecasts of analysts, but they remained disappointed by the export outlook for the current quarter.
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The U.S. light crude oil is on track to record its biggest weekly loss for the past 10 months after the exchange rate of U.S. dollar against most major currencies rose sharply on Thursday because of concerns caused the debt crisis in Greece. They dropped the price of oil to around 77 dollars a barrel, and the index of the 30 largest and often traded U.S. companies Dow Jones IA finished yesterday’s session with a sharp drop of more than 3%, which is its biggest loss last year. In sharp drop in oil prices contributed to concerns that the debt crisis in Greece to end the fragile recovery of the global economy, which in turn would reduce demand for energy commodities. Adversely affected oil and data of the Ministry of Energy of USA, which showed that stocks of crude oil in the country have increased for the 13th time in 14 weeks, which testifies to the reduced demand. International petroleum exchange in New York for the June futures oil dropped by 2.86 dollars or 3.6 percent, to 77.11 dollars per barrel by the end of yesterday’s session. During today’s electronic trade in Asia increased their price by 4 cents to 77.20 dollars a barrel. Since the beginning of this week they fell 10.6 percent, a record decline for the last 16 months or from January 2009 onwards.
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Almost all the major stock indexes in Asia and the Pacific ended today’s session of positive territory, led by increases in mining companies, after economic optimism increased the prices of metals and energy resources. The regional MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose for a fourth day, adding 0.4 percent to 127.43 points. The price of copper rose above the psychological level of 8 thousand dollars per ton, since in recent days it became clear that employment in the U.S. grows, along with activity in the services sector. Companies from the raw materials sector was best performing group in the composition of the MSCI Asia Pacific today, over the past four days the price of their shares has risen by an average of 1.5 percent, according to Bloomberg. Exchange Taiex in Taiwan rose 0.8 percent to 8 089.7 points, while South Korean Kospi, and the Chinese Shanghai Composite, ended the session with a growth of 0.1 percent. Hong Kong Stock Exchange remained closed since April 1 because of the celebration of national holidays. The main measure in India BSE Sensex 30 rose 0.2 percent to 17 971.1 points, while in Indonesia Jakarta Composite decreased by 0.4% to 2 876 points after the central bank left the main interest of its record low level of 6.5 percent for the eighth consecutive month. Among the few indexes fell today, and ordered the Japanese Nikkei 225, which lost 0.5 percent, but remained above the psychological level of 11 thousand points. Appreciation of the yen against the euro has put pressure on shares of companies exporting the Tokyo Stock Exchange today.
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Today’s session on Wall Street began timidly with slight increases for the main indexes reached new highs for the past 18 months to the end of yesterday’s stock trading. Shares of extraction and cyclical companies perform best and brought out three U.S. index of positive territory despite news of the decline in sales of homes to their lowest level in nine months in February. Dow Jones IA, which unites 30 largest actively traded stock companies in the U.S., added 0.3 percent to 10 820.88 points and a half hours after the beginning of the session. The broad S & P 500 remained almost unchanged at a level of 1 166 points, having earlier climbed by nearly 0.2 per cent. On the Nasdaq Stock Exchange main index Nasdaq Composite also gravitates around the zero level of 2 393.55 points. All three indexes ended the session in positive territory Monday backed by shares in the health sector due to the adoption of health reform the House of Representatives to the Senate, cited by CNN. Shortly after today’s session it became clear that cold weather and snow storms in the U.S. in February decreased further activity in the property market, resulting in sales of existing homes decreased for the fourth consecutive month. They fell to 5.02 million residential units on an annual basis in February, which was their lowest level in nine months.
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