Successful start of the corporate reporting season in the US supported optimistic moods on global financial markets after a large-scale sale at the beginning of the last week. Market participants were also estimating ambiguous data on the US residential real estate market. At the same time, the situation with the spread of the new coronavirus variant across the world and its consequences for the global economy continue to be the main reason for anxiety.
Industrial output in Ukraine slowed down. The NBU raised its key policy rate to 8.0%

Financial markets survey 26.07.2021