OREANDA-NEWS. September 18, 2009. UFC Capital released daily market view:

The European markets demonstrated increase, while the US markets fell down. This Thursday, the European and the US markets reflected the various expectations of investors. The European ones were inspired by better-then-expected data on the Eurozone foreign trade balance. In its turn, the Americans were disappointed by still weak statistics on labor and real estate markets. This Friday morning, there appeared information on economies of some European countries, however, this information, after being released, had no significant impact on the markets.

SEC to toughen control over the rating agencies. September 17, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unilaterally agreed the decision to toughen control over the rating agencies. In particular, the rating agencies are to provide the more detailed information about the rating history of the rated companies. The agencies will have access to the info about structured financial products, so that they will be able to evaluate these products without any request from the issuing companies.    The annual reports as well as the reports on the conflict of interest shall be submitted to SEC on the regular basis.

Ukrainian largest stock exchanges continued their growth. September 17, on Ukrainska SE 863 deals were made with the shares of Ukrainian companies for the total of UAH 17.5 mn. This time the most trades were the shares of Alchevsk Iron and Steel (ALMK) – 155 deals. That day on PFTS SE 95 deals were sealed for the total of UAH 8.4 mn. Alchevsk Iron and Steel also became the trade leader on this floor – 17 deals.