Today in the U.S. is expected on a saturated important macroeconomic event day.

At 18:00 Moscow time, to be published data on new home sales in December, which, according to average forecasts may increase from 355 thousand to 370 thousand However, given the decline in sales over the previous months (in spite of expectations of growth), unpleasant surprises may await us today. In addition, data on December sales of housing on the secondary market also disappointed investors.

at 18:30 U.S. Department of Energy publishes a report on stocks of petroleum and petroleum products last week, which is projected to show an increase in reserves at 1.4 million barrels. Published yesterday, the American Petroleum Institute data, however, showed an unexpected decline indicator.

at 22:15 Moscow Fed announced the decision regarding the level of key interest rates after two-day meeting of the Operations Committee on the open market. Investors do not expect any special surprises and believe that the rate will remain in the same range of 0-0,25%.

In the calendar of corporate accountability to the opening of trading of the most significant statements can be identified Abbott Laboratories. At 15:30 IST come out quarterly data Caterpillar and Boeing, at 16:30 ConocoPhillips. After closing the main trading will report to Symantec.

At 14:19 Moscow time futures on S P500 index traded in positive territory at 0.15%, the index NASDAQ100 with an increase of 0,09%.

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