Wednesday's session on the New York stock markets ended with slight increases in the major indexes. Heavily went up course of Apple (over 6%), which the day before, after the session, presented better than expected the quarterly results.
The Dow Jones Industrial rose at the close of 0.13 percent, the S&P 500 went up by 0.03 percent and the Nasdaq Comp. gained 0.50 percent. The fourth week in a row there was an increase in crude oil inventories in the US.
Important was also the decision of the Federal Open Market Committee. The noticeable was the lack of guidance to raise rates in March, which resulted in a slight weakening of the US currency and an increase in raw material prices.
In the night futures on US indices began to fall , while the Japanese Nikkei lost 1.2% in the morning. Thus, beginning in Europe can present a slightly down.