The leading stock platforms across the world finished the previous week in the red. Pessimistic moods returned as a result of the escalating situation in the Middle East and weak statistical indicators.

Tension on the American stock platforms was high already at the beginning of the previous week, when the US together with allies from Arab countries made a series of air attacks against positions of the Islamic State Group in Syria not far from the border with Iraq. During the following days, moods of investors did not improve. Unexpectedly good statistical data on the US real estate market were leveled out by weak indicators of the labor market and orders for durable goods.

Financial markets survey 29.09.2014