The leading stock platforms across the world experienced one more week of growth. By the end of the previous week, the American S&P 500 Index surpassed the value registered at the beginning of 2016, while the British FTSE 100 Index came very close to the starting point of the current year. The fact of growing petroleum prices persisted and, as before, played the role of the main reference point for investors.

Financial markets survey 21.03.2016