With the UAIndex aggregate market cap back below 4,000 and no positive market movers apparent, the potential for a six-month low seems in sight

 

“…we’ve spoken out very clearly about our desire to see the people of Ukraine be able to have their aspirations met by their own leadership in peaceful ways, without violence, which has no place in a modern European state,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Brussels for the NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting.

With no external market movers, investors in Ukrainian stocks responded to internal strife in their trading on Tuesday

 

“Ukraine should take immediate steps to fulfill the human rights commitments that all the participating States have freely undertaken by investigating reports of excessive use of force by police and thugs and ensuring that freedom of assembly and association are respected. Ukraine should also implement the standards on the protection of journalists embodied in the draft Ministerial Decision that has been shepherded by the Ukrainian chairmanship,” said U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, who also serves as chair of the U.S. Helsinki Commission.

 

“Notwithstanding our strenuous efforts to develop and apply a mechanism of high-level dialogue, the Coordinating Council for Civil Society Development under the President of Ukraine, and profound respect for knowledge and intentions of many of the Council members, today we see no common values that would serve as a basis for constructive cooperation in this Organization. The UCIPR is forced to terminate its membership in the Council,” the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research said in its statement in resignation for the council.

“We think that is really the goal that everybody in the Ukraine should be pursuing, work together to get the Ukraine back on the road to European integration and to economic health.”

Ash says Putin will do almost anything to keep Ukraine out of Europe and headed toward membership in his Soviet-style Eurasian Union

 

In addition to its routine charitable activities, the Maltese Cross Corps during extreme situations, catastrophes and wars is prepared to help victims

“…the Yanukovych/Azarov administration’s only strategy at present for survival seems to be one of “muddling through”, i.e. the tried and tested strategy pursued over the past three years. However, this fails to recognise the deteriorating macro backdrop, that risk perceptions of Ukraine have changed in recent weeks, which combined with concerns over tapering have now arguably closed international market access for Ukraine while it also probably fails to recognise the still huge latent threat still from large and continued street demonstrations/political unrest.

“Since gas imports in November should have declined, and they will in December, we expect the year-end C/A deficit to be close to our initial estimate at USD 14.8 bln.”

 

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