Today the most important event came on evening: FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) statement. Market expected more insight into the rate-hike issue, but there came no specific hints about the proper timing. Albeit dollar remained cautious as well as Fed about the time of lift-off, stocks enjoyed the possibility od delay on interest rate raising. Major Wall Street index S&P 500 ended the day at 2,099.42, adding 1.21%. As for the European market, closing before the statement, there has been no special news, except for unemployment rate release in UK. This remained at 5.7%, while new jobless claims fell by 31,000. Stock index DAX started with a loss of 1.3% but later in the session it was able to trim its losses and finish the day at -0.48%. Leader of DAX was the energy sector. RWE ended Wednesday session with gain of 3.65%, E.ON lifted 1.23%. Conversely, the top losers came from the auto industry with BMW drop of 4.21%, Volkswagen falling 3.15% and Continental 2.73%. Nevertheless, such drops are still luring investors for buying or put options.
