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Weekly bulletin 30.01-03.02.2012
06 february 2012
The week ended with small decreases for SOFIX and BG TR30, which fell 0.91 % and 0.49% respectively. At the end of January 2012 the two indices are close to their levels at the end of the year, taking account of minimum growths of respectively 0.24 % and 1.02 %. For the consecutive week very well represented sectors of the special purpose vehicles, whose measure - BG REIT - grew by 1.30 percent for the week and 10.32 % in January. Also for a consecutive weeks, developed markets recorded a better performance compared to the local market and all markets that we follow, reported growths with one exception - Japanese NIKKEI, which deleted the 0.11 % of its value.
The U.S. economy has created in January the most jobs for the last 9 months and the unemployment rate fell to almost 3-year low of 8.3 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Jobs outside the agricultural sector have risen by 243 000, which is the highest indicator since April 2011 and well above analysts' expectations for growth of 150 000. From August 2011 until now U.S. unemployment fell by 0.8 percentage points....more »
