(index / closing price / change items /% change)

Nikkei 225 19,403.06 +6.42 +0.03%

Shanghai Composite 3,114.66 -7.90 -0.25%

CAC 4,848.28 +8.60 +0.18%

Xetra DAX 11,472.24 +22.31 +0.19%

FTSE 100 7,068.17 +4.49 +0.06%

S&P/TSX 15,328.15 -7.08 -0.05%

S&P 500 2,268.88 +5.09 +0.22%

Bloomberg 87.60 +1.31 +1.52%

Dow Jones 19,945.04 +11.23 +0.06%

Polish equity market closed higher on Tuesday. The broad market measure, the WIG index, gained 0.14%. Sector performance within the WIG Index was mixed. Food sector (+1.80%) outperformed, while developing sector (-0.62%) lagged behind.

The large-cap stocks' measure, the WIG30 Index, added 0.19%. In the index basket, agricultural producer KERNEL (WSE: KER) generated the biggest advance, soaring by 3.98%. Other major gainers were two chemical producers GRUPA AZOTY (WSE: ATT) and SYNTHOS (WSE: SNS) as well as two banks ING BSK (WSE: ING) and BZ WBK (WSE: BZW), adding between 1.13% and 1.63%. On the other side of the ledger, coking coal miner JSW (WSE: JSW) led the decliners with a 2.84% drop, followed by railway freight transport operator PKP CARGO (WSE: PKP), videogame developer CD PROJEKT (WSE: CDR) and bank MBANK (WSE: MBK), sliding by 1.05%, 0.87% and 0.86% respectively.

Major U.S. stock-indexes rose on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average resuming its march toward 20000 and the Nasdaq hitting a record, helped by gains in technology shares. Energy stocks also rose, supported by oil prices which up 1,4%.

Most of Dow stocks in positive area (22 of 30). Top gainer - Apple Inc. (AAPL, +0.89%). Top loser - The Procter & Gamble Company (PG, -0.54%).

Most of S&P sectors in positive area. Top gainer - Technology (+0.5%). Top loser - Conglomerates (-0.3%).

At the moment:

Dow 19910.00 +36.00 +0.18%

S&P 500 2268.00 +8.00 +0.35%

Nasdaq 100 4985.75 +43.50 +0.88%

Oil 53.70 +0.68 +1.28%

Gold 1137.70 +4.10 +0.36%

U.S. 10yr 2.57 +0.03

The beginning of the session on Wall Street was stronger than indicated by quotations of futures contracts. This higher opening did not impress the Warsaw market, which in the last hour of today's trading comes at the level of 1,935 points (+ 0.09%) in the case of the WIG20 index.

Before the bell: S&P futures +0.13%, NASDAQ futures +0.16%

U.S. stock-index futures advanced in the first day of the shortened holiday week. Trading activity remain low as the market participants gear up for another three-day weekend.

Global Stocks:

Nikkei 19,403.06 +6.42 +0.03%

Hang Seng Closed

Shanghai 21,574.76 -61.44 -0.28%

FTSE Closed

CAC 4,844.18 +4.50 +0.09%

DAX 11,463.75 +13.82 +0.12%

Crude $53.29 (+0.08%)

Gold $1,143.00 (+0.69%)

(company / ticker / price / change ($/%) / volume)

In the markets today it happens virtually nothing of interest. Trading everywhere is very sluggish and the situation does not improve the forenoon phase of trade.

Practically from the beginning of the trading market signaled that activity will be miserable today. Together with lack of activity goes a volatility. Formally, in the Warsaw market trading takes place, and practically takes only waiting for the final fixing.

At the halfway point of today's session the WIG20 index was at the level of 1,935 points (+0,07%).

WIG20 index opened at 1933.10 points (-0.03%)*

WIG 51314.38 0.04%

WIG30 2225.98 0.06%

mWIG40 4167.65 0.06%

*/ - change to previous close

The opening of the cash market in Warsaw was very peaceful. In the first minutes everything seems clear. On the market we do not see any compelling attention activity, which so far is part of the baseline scenario in terms of the attractiveness of trading this week. Low volume limited technical reliability of the signals sent by the graph and morning and does not bring new events.

After fifteen minutes of trading the WIG20 index was at the level of 1,936 points (+0,15%).

Main markets are returning today to the game after the Christmas break, it does not apply to the market in London, which is closed today.

During the Friday session on Wall Street indexes moved around levels of Thursday's close and ended the day with light increases. The Dow Jones Industrial rose at the close of 0.07 percent, S&P 500 was firmer by 0.13 percent, while the Nasdaq Comp. went up by 0.28 percent.

In the macro calendar today there is no data that can revive the trade. There will come data from the US (indices: S&P / Case-Shiller Composite, the Conference Board, Richmond Fed), but the US markets are focused now on a good end of the year and meeting of indices with round-psychological levels.

On the Warsaw market the WIG20 index ended the previous week hesitantly in the region of 1,950 pts., but it seems that investors have an appetite for a confrontation of 2000 points and to end the year with the stroke of consolidation between 2,000 and 1,650 points. Therefore, the last four days of the year will be a game for as high as possible close end start of the new year with optimism.