During the previous week, global indices demonstrated multidirectional dynamics and, on Friday, they finished the week with a decline spurred by the information from Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company, that it is temporarily reducing deliveries of vaccine doses to Europe because it is upgrading its production capacities. Investors focused their attention on the political situation in the US and examination of the resolution for impeaching US President Donald Trump, prospects for approving new measures to support the economy, corporate financial statements of US companies and the beginning of vaccination against the coronavirus.

Financial markets survey 18.01.2021