This year, the leading stock platforms across the world finished May without the traditional sale. Weak performance results over the first four months of the current year led to a situation where the majority of traders simply did not have assets for sale to register any visible profits.

For the leading stock platforms, the last week of May was not bad. However, one cannot say that markets are confidently gaining momentum to enter any lingering upward trend. The slackening summer season is coming closer and closer. If we assume that the traditional seasonal trends continue during the current year, traders will not begin serious trading on markets before September.

Financial markets survey 02.06.2014