OREANDA-NEWS. On 31 August 2009 UFC Capital Released Daily Review:

Global markets were bidirectional again. The negative data from the UK as to the total business investments in the second quarter of 2009 had affected the sentiments of participants of the European markets, most of which closed below zero. However, the US exchange indices resulted to be indifferent to the over-the-seas problems and by the end of the day demonstrated slight increase thanks to information about the US GDP, which in the second quarter lost 1% instead of 1.5% predicted by the analysts As to the negative statistics released on Thursday, we can highlight the data on record-breaking unemployment in Japan that reached 5.7%. This Friday a whole series of data will be published that deal with the situation in the UK as well as information about the US citizens’ income and spending.

NBU is to liberalize the currency market. Starting from October 26, 2009, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will bring back the forward and spot transactions to the interbank currency market. The correspondent decision was backed by the NBU decree dated July 21, which was registered by the Justice Ministry of Ukraine on August 17. We would like to remind the reader that the NBU prohibited these transactions in April 2009, and prior to this ban, it expected to hold this prohibition valid till January 1, 2010.

Ukrainian market closed pessimistically. The largest trading floors indices this Thursday closed slightly below zero. On August 27, 680 deals were made on Ukrainska SE with the shares of Ukrainian companies for the total of UAH 14.0 mn. The shares of Centerenergo (CEEN) were the most liquid that day – 154 deals. Meanwhile, the PFTS SE registered 185 deals for the total of UAH 12.1 mn. The shares of Centerenero became the trade leader on the floor – 36 deals.