American stock indices Dow Jones and S&P 500 closed at historical high levels on Wednesday, October 9. This is proven by trade data.
The Dow Jones index, which represents the arithmetic average price of the shares of the 30 largest companies in the USA, closed the transactions at 42,512 points (+1.03%).
The S&P 500, an index whose basket includes securities of the 500 largest American companies by capitalization, closed at 5,792.04 points (+0.71%).
Then quotation marks rose publications Minutes of the September Fed meeting. It follows that the regulator does not plan to act hastily in easing monetary policy.
Last month, the American regulator cut the interest rate by 50 basis points to 4.75-5% annually for the first time in 4.5 years.
Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Russia continues to tighten monetary policy. Following the results of the last two meetings, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation increased the key interest rate. Finally he reached 19% per year. At the same time, the regulator does not rule out the possibility of further increases in October.
Previously expert explained Scenario in which the key rate in Russia will increase to 23%.