The dynamics of global stock markets continues to be weak. Investors are waiting for the moment when new statistical data will become strong enough to be a sufficient argument to deal for a rise. Unfortunately, this is not happening so far.

In the first quarter, the US GDP shrank the most over the last five years. The 2.9% decline of the economy turned out to be more serious than analysts expected. It was this indicator that determined such a weak dynamics of the US indices over the previous week.

Financial markets survey 01.07.2014