Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: stock news — 12-05-2014.

The stock indices rallied to six-year high, boosted by mining shares. Mining stocks climbed due to an update on market reforms in China.

The stock indices were also supported by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's comments last week. Draghi said that the ECB could add new stimulus measures in June to tackle low inflation. Increasing concerns over Ukraine had a negative impact on markets. Pro-Russian separatists said that the referendum held in two regions of eastern Ukraine proved successful. Both Ukrainian government and the West condemned the vote.

Sky Deutschland AG shares declined 9.6% after British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc announced the company wants to acquire control of Sky Deutschland AG.

Indexes on the close:

Name                                   Price                                    Change                 Change %

FTSE 100                             6,851.75                             +37.18                     +0.55%

DAX                                      9,702.46                            +121.01                     +1.26%

CAC 40                                 4,493.65                             +16.37                     +0.37%

U.S. stock-index futures rose as investors  ignore rising tension in Ukraine Monday and the Dow Jones industrial average could power forward to new record highs.

Global markets:

Nikkei 14,149.52 -50.07 -0.35%

Hang Seng 22,261.61 +398.62 +1.82%

Shanghai Composite 2,052.87 +41.74 +2.08%

FTSE 6,841.3 +26.73 +0.39%

CAC 4,484.37 +7.09 +0.16%

DAX 9,676.13 +94.68 +0.99%

Crude oil $100.40 (+0.41%)

Gold $1301.20 (+1.00%)

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Upgrades:

Travelers (TRV) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Guggenheim

Twitter (TWTR) upgraded to Buy from Neutral at Sun Trust Rbsn Humphrey  

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The stock indices climbed supported by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's comments last week. Draghi said that the ECB could add new stimulus measures in June to tackle low inflation. Increasing concerns over Ukraine had a negative impact on markets. Pro-Russian separatists said that the referendum held in two regions of eastern Ukraine proved successful. Both Ukrainian government and the West condemned the vote.

Sky Deutschland AG shares declined 5.4% after British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc announced the company wants to acquire control of Sky Deutschland AG.

Current figures:

Name                                   Price                                    Change                 Change %

FTSE 100                             6,841.62                             +27.05                     +0.40%

DAX                                      9,669.52                             +88.07                     +0.92%

CAC 40                                 4,480.59                               +3.31                     +0.07%

Asian stock indices traded mixed. The Chinese stock markets has shown the fastest growth in seven weeks after the State Council announced that it will deepen reforms of the nation’s capital markets.

The Japanese stock index Nikkei 225 declined due to the weaker-than-expected Japanese economic data. Japan’s Ministry of Finance has released the current account figures. The current account surplus decreased to 116.4 billion yen in March, 612.7 billion yen in February. Analysts had expected a surplus of 347.7 billion yen.

Indexes on the close:

Nikkei 225                     14,149.52           -50.07        -0.35%

Hang Seng                     22,261.61         +398.62      +1.82%

Shanghai Composite        2,052.87          +41.74       +2.08%

Konica Minolta shares dropped 11% after missing analyst forecast for its full-year earnings.

Sumitomo Electric Industries decreased 6.5% after the company forecast net profit that missed estimates.

Olympus shares climbed 4.8% after announcing an almost 70% increase in profit for the last fiscal year.