The leading stock platforms across the world registered growth over the first week of June. The American S&P 500 Index habitually set a new record-high. However, record-high index values by no means indicate that
fundamental indicators are also record-high.

The US macroeconomic indicators published over the previous week gave a mixed picture again. The good news include growing orders of industrial enterprises in April, as well as indicators of the labor market, which turned out to be better than analysts forecast. At the same time, the US foreign trade deficit grew record-high in April 2014 since March 2012. Also, labor productivity in the US dropped record-low over the last six years in the first quarter of 2014.

Financial markets survey 10.06.2014