{"id":22151,"date":"2013-01-21T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/business\/news\/russian-stocks-january21-2013-386\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T07:12:00","slug":"market-buzz-a-rather-laid-back-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/market-buzz-a-rather-laid-back-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Buzz: A rather laid-back Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No sudden moves are expected today on the markets as investors worldwide will mainly focus on general news background.<\/p>\n<p>\u00adRussian markets are expected to open in the red despite having closed in positive territory on Friday. Two key Russian indices finished in the green, with the RTS gaining 1.14% and the MICEX up 1.10%.<\/p>\n<p>Asian markets are higher today as Chinese and Hong Kong shares show gains. The Shanghai Composite is up 0.23% and the Hang Seng rose 0.01%. The Nikkei 225 is closed for a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices slid on Monday, with Brent losing 0.27% and Light down 0.34%.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWeak dynamics in Asian markets and a decline in world oil prices traditionally affect Russian stock exchanges, so I expect Russian indices to open with losse,\u201d<\/em> Yulia Voytovich of Investcafe explained.<\/p>\n<p>However, European markets traded mixed. The FTSE 100 gained 0.36%, while the DAX dropped 0.43% and the CAC 40 lost 0.07%.<\/p>\n<p>North and South American stocks also failed to show positive dynamics, but managed to finish mainly in green. The Dow Jones and the S&amp;P 500 gained 0.39% and 0.34%, respectively, while the NASDAQ slid 0.04%.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cToday will not bring much in macroeconomic statistics, so no sudden moves on the markets are expected. Investors worldwide will mainly focus on general news background,\u201d<\/em> Voytovich said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No sudden moves are expected today on the markets as investors worldwide will mainly focus on general news background.<\/p>\n<p>&shy;Russian markets are expected to open in the red despite having closed in positive territory on Friday. Two key Russian indices finished in the green, with the RTS gaining 1.14% and the MICEX up 1.10%.<\/p>\n<p>Asian markets are higher today as Chinese and Hong Kong shares show gains. The Shanghai Composite is up 0.23% and the Hang Seng rose 0.01%. The Nikkei 225 is closed for a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Oil prices slid on Monday, with Brent losing 0.27% and Light down 0.34%.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Weak dynamics in Asian markets and a decline in world oil prices traditionally affect Russian stock exchanges, so I expect Russian indices to open with losse,&rdquo;<\/em> Yulia Voytovich of Investcafe explained.<\/p>\n<p>However, European markets traded mixed. The FTSE 100 gained 0.36%, while the DAX dropped 0.43% and the CAC 40 lost 0.07%.<\/p>\n<p>North and South American stocks also failed to show positive dynamics, but managed to finish mainly in green. The Dow Jones and the S&amp;P 500 gained 0.39% and 0.34%, respectively, while the NASDAQ slid 0.04%.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Today will not bring much in macroeconomic statistics, so no sudden moves on the markets are expected. Investors worldwide will mainly focus on general news background,&rdquo;<\/em> Voytovich said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}