Investors Continue To Digest Results Of Fed Meeting

The trading session finished with a small loss in the American stock market on Thursday, having decreased for the second day in a row. Dow Jones decreased by 0.47% and has been trading on the level of 15545.75 points, S&P500 fell to the level of 1756.54 points, losing 0.36%, and Nasdaq Composite lost 0.27% being at the end of the day on the level of 3919.17 points. The main influencing factor has been strong data on the Chicago index of business activity, as for some time now all statistics have been perceived by investors through a prism of prospects of the program of quantitative easing.

Yesterday, investors were waiting for the results of the FED meeting and now continue to digest the results of it, trying to find anything in the text which could outline when the QE-3 program will start to be reduced. A number of large western banks already changed their forecasts in this respect. For example, Credit Suisse considers that the volume of QE3 will be reduced not in March, but in January 2014, by $10 billion, and it is worth waiting for the full turning by September, 2014.

American news does not really seem to be bothering investors in Europe. Yesterday we could observe quite optimistic moods in the European platforms. The German DAX index finished the trading session at the maximum historical level on 9033.9 points, having shown an annual gain of 18.67%.

However, it should be stressed that the situation in the currency market and in particular, the situation with the Euro, strongly changed since the beginning of week. EUR/USD continued to suffer from correction of positions in connection with a difference of views of the national Central Banks on the further course of monetary policy. Macroeconomic statistical data which turned out to be quite weak, only increased uncertainty in relation to the Euro.

Undoubtedly, statements of Mr. Novotna also affected positions of the Euro. Earlier during the week he already managed to excite the markets with the statement that the decrease in the rate on deposits is excluded, and then it gave support to the Euro. This time he made a hint that the European Central Bank could again start to use LTRO operations in order to maintain liquidity at sufficient levels. The regulator really should have a certain plan of action on the future as the current economic indicators show that the process of recovery proceeds unstably.

As a result, the pair from the level of opening on 1.3733 came down to a minimum of 1.3583, having finished the day around 1.36. This morning EUR/USD pair continued it’s downward movement and is traded on the level of 1.35610.