The leading stock platforms across the world finished the last week of August in the green zone. Notwithstanding the significant deterioration of the geopolitical situation, indices of trading platforms in the US and Western Europe registered growth in August.

According to information provided by Bloomberg, capitalization of stock markets of the entire world – from Brazil to Japan – reached a recordhigh USD 66 trillion as a result of trading on Tuesday, 26 August. At a pre-crisis peak in 2007, world stock cost approximately USD 63 trillion in the aggregate. By March 2009 (the current over-year record-low), their capitalization plummeted to USD 25 trillion.

Financial markets survey 01.09.2014