Investors Waiting For Minutes Of Last FOMC Meeting

Yesterday’s trading session was a victory for the "bulls". In Europe, the index of the Parisian stock exchange, CAC 40, grew by 0.83%, as well as the German DAX, and the index of the London stock exchange FTSE 100 added 0.37%. In the meantime in the US, the Dow Jones indicator increased by 0.64% up to the level of 16530.94 points, the S&P 500 rose by 0.61% and reached the level of 1837.88 points, and Nasdaq gained 0.96% and reached the level of 4153.18 points.

This morning, the American futures bargain in a weak plus, the futures contract on S&P 500 adds 0.12%. Almost all the main indicators of the Asian-Pacific Region are also trading in the green zone, for example, Japanese Nikkei 225 adds 1.93% and the Hong Kong Hang Seng increases by .18%.

Today it is necessary to pay special attention to the publication of the minutes of the last meeting of FOMC. This event is quite interesting to observe, due to the fact that at the last meeting, the representatives of the Committee decided on the long-awaited beginning of the turning of the QE3, however, having designated only symbolical reduction of stimulation. Thus, details of adoption of such a decision can be quite interesting and exciting for the market. If investors will see high motivation of the monetary authorities, and also readiness for further more considerable turning, it could increase demand for the American Dollar. Such an outcome is spoken of highly by many factors - the recent aggressive speech of Plosser and also Bernanke's comments that there is an opportunity of reduction of the program at each meeting.

However, there is a small probability that the members of the FOMC were taking this decision without significant willingness, especially, remembering that the managing director of the Fed of Boston, Rozengren, acted against it, referring to a very high unemployment rate and to low a rate of inflation.

As for the EUR/USD currency pair, besides the minutes of the FOMC, has other factors of pressure. Deflationary tendencies in the Eurozone are causing more and more fears in the monetary authorities of E-17, as they obviously point to a lack of final consumption. In spite of the fact that the current economic situation in some peripheral countries starts being corrected, Italy and France considerably slows down the development. In this plan, it will be interesting to look at Mario Draghi's press-conference right after the meeting of the European Central Bank, planned for Thursday. Whether there will be hints on a deflation, and ways of fight against it, remains a riddle.

The influence from it we will be able to see on Thursday, but today the EUR/USD will move under the influence of the publication of the report on industrial orders of Germany, and also results of the FOMC protocol. If the protocol appears to be more positive than expected, it could send the pair to the area of 1.3550.

Brent is up by 0.29% on a level of 107.30$ per barrel. WTI is increasing by 0.51% and traded on a price of 94.32$ per barrel. Gold and Silver are losing 0.28% and 0.88% accordingly, bargaining next to the levels of 1226.06$ and 19.61$ per troy ounce.