The leading global trading platforms registered one more week of growth on the threshold of a new year. European stock indices displayed better weekly growth than indices of the US trading platforms, which hardly managed to enter green zone as a result of the previous week.

On Friday, 7 December, the long-expected statistical data on the US labor market was published. November data turned out to be much better than expected. In particular, the rate of unemployment was 7.7% instead of 7.9%. Also, there was a significant growth of non-farm payroll. Although experts started to speak again about imperfect  methodology for collecting statistical data on the labor market, these data helped pull out the weekly
result of the US stock market into the positive area.

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