Quotations of “black gold” steadily moving up on the anomalous cold in the U.S. and Europe, are now at a maximum for the past 15 months. This morning they added about 0.8%. The latest news, which supported the prices for hydrocarbons, it was a message from China”s rising imports of crude oil in December to 20.9 million tons with 16.7 million tons in November. The volume of oil imports to the country for the entire 2009 reached a record level of 203.8 million tons. Data on Chinese imports of metals in December added optimism and traders LME. Futures on the major industrial metals added this morning with more than 2%.

support to the commodity price quotes is also a weak dollar, to accelerate its fall after disappointing data on the labor market in the United States, according to which, in December the U.S. non-farm sector has lost 85 thousand jobs, while experts do not expect a change in the indicator. Note that the stock indexes of America did not respond to published data, concluded Friday”s trading session with a minimum positive changes. Futures on them and this morning traded in a moderate plus. Weak statistics published in the United States on Friday, urged the world”s investors that the Fed will not soon go on raising rates, and possibly before that will have to take additional measures to support the labor market.

displayed by Asian trading platforms on Monday dynamics also encouraging. Important statistics in the course of the day is not expected, so we can expect that the positive mood of traders will continue throughout the day.

Today”s leaders and growth, and trading volume knocked out by action Uralkali
“Finam” raised the assessment of shares of Wimm-Bill-Dann
External background allowed “bulls” to take the initiative in their hands and lead the market higher levels of highs last year
The greatest interest of buyers is concentrated in stocks in metallurgical engineering: more than 10% gain weight paper Severstal, MMK and Norilsk Nickel
Domestic production in the U.S. have become the main driver of growth of U.S. stock indices
Russia”s oligarchs are queuing for the London listings
Until the end of the session, Russia”s stock market may make another attempt to reach the daily maximum
During the period from 28 to 31 December 2009 the ld40eaders of the negative impact on RTS Index became shares of Gazprom, Rosneft and LUKoil
Deputy Minister of Finance Savchenko considers unreasonable interference with the strengthening of the hryvnia exchange rate of the NBU