OREANDA-NEWS. February 01, 2011. UFC Capital released daily market view:

NBU reports Ukraine's international balance of payments. According to data that was published on National Bank of Ukraine's (NBU) website, in 2010 Ukraine's external surplus totaled to USD 5.1 bln, which gave the country the opportunity to increase gold and foreign currency reserves to USD 34.6 bln (as of  January 1, 2011). This is enough to finance 5.2 months worth of imports. We want to note that that current account deficit amounted to USD 2.6 bln, which is an increase of 53% YoY. The total surplus of financial and capital accounts totaled to USD 7.7 bln last year, compared to a deficit USD 12.0 bln in 2009.

Equity market. On Monday, trading on the Ukrainian Exchange Index resulted in a moderate drop of 0.34%, to 2632.73 points. Only a few stocks ended the day in the green zone. The trading volume on the spot market totaled to 223.7 mln hryvnia and 41.3 mln hryvnia on the futures market.

The leader in trading volume was Alchevsk Iron and Steel (ALMK; SELL), which had been trading above the starting price but closed the day down 0.33%. Its shares were traded for a total of 41.3 mln hryvnia in 1479 transactions. Ukrnafta (UNAF; SELL) had a significant impact on the movement of the indicator – gaining 0.87%.  Bogdan Motors (LUAZ; SELL) stock also did well, after shares became actively demanded in the second half of the day, leading share value to increase 1.91%.

Northern Mining (SGOK; HOLD) and Azovstal (AZST; SELL) were among yesterday's poorest performers; shares dropped 2.72% and 2.38% respectively.