OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 August 2009 UFC Capital released daily market expectations:

Slight rebound in global markets. This Tuesday both European and US indices had a positive trend due to the released data on the UK CPI for July (0% against expected 0.3% drop), as well as positive data on economic sentiment index released by ZEW. Meanwhile, the US PPI in July 2009 vs. this June turned out to be worse-than-expected – minus 0.9% against minus 0.3%. Besides the negative data were released in the US on housing starts – 581 thousand in annualized terms, while analysts expected 599 thousand. On Wednesday morning, the negative flow of information was reinforced by the PPI in Germany – minus 1.5% this July. All this negative news influenced the investors’ sentiments on August 19 and the indices of the largest European stock exchanges demonstrated decline since the very start of the trades.

Ukrainian market expects signals from the west. August 18, on Ukrainska SE 522 deals were sealed with shares of Ukrainian companies for the total of UAH 13.9 mn. The greatest number of deals – 100 – were made with shares of Raiffeisen Bank Aval (BAVL). That day on PFTS SE 107 deals were registered for the total of UAH 9.4 mn. Ukrnafta (UNAF) shares again became the leader of trades on this floor – 21 deals.