The beginning of the year has obviously been pleasant for investors on the global stock market. Growth of stock indexes was observed almost everywhere. Once again, US stock market was setting the pace, where the events by now could be described as euphoria. By the end of the month, US Broad Market Index S&P 500 soared by 5.62%, whereas during the month it was reaching up by almost 7.5%. 

This year, December fell short of investors’ expectations for serious global “Christmas rally” and the key global stock markets closed the last month of the year mixed. The majority of European market indexes closed the month negative (for example, the Germany’s main stock index DAX fell by 0.8% and French CAC 40 – by 1.1%), while US market continued conquering new peaks (S&P 500 grew by almost 1% by the end of the month, while Dow Jones Industrial grew by 1.8%).