Wall Street exchanges closed the trade last night with a red candle, in light of the investors' expectations of finding hints regarding the FED's protocol about to be published today, signing a decision to stream a third quantitative easing program (QE3).
Another sentiment is the expectations for ECB intervention at the crisis that is happening at the Euro bloc. Top attention was taken by different countries in Europe, where Spain has raised an amount of 4.5 billion Euros in bonds that are issued for periods of 18 months, Greece seeks an extension of two years for the economy cuts and the Netherlands has received a warning from the Moody's rating agency, that its credit rating is about to decrease.
U.S. should publish today the FED's interest protocol discussing the bank's pledged of keeping the interest rates at a "near zero" level until the year of 2014.
Gold reaches a peak of 3 months
The Dow Jones index has declined by 0.51% to 13,203.58 points, the NASDAQ index fell by 0.29% to 3,067.26 points and the S&P 500 fell by 0.35% to 1,413.17 points.
Oil prices rose by 0.7% to 96.7 dollars per barrel and the price of gold rose by 0.1% (a peak of three months) to 1642.9 dollars an ounce.