Nothing is played. Soaring last week could presage a sustainable recovery of the stock market. While the major banking groups have issued positive signals, like Citigroup. The latter announced that he would not be need additional injections of the US Government and that, out of supplies, he and Bank of America have been raking profits since early 2009. These values are also among the main beneficiaries of the week with a gain of 73 for the first and 83 for the second.
General Motors has also benefited from a strong current buyer ( 88) after indicating that he renounced ask 2 billion dollars in aid to Washington. In addition, these rebounds were motivated by the revival of the debate on the regulation of short selling and calls for the relaxation of the accounting rules for impairment of assets. This thinning in a sky darkened by the waves of redundancies and mostly disappointing statistics announcements, helped indexes rebound in proportions similar to those of the end of November. The Dow Jones jumped 10,34 on the week at the end of four sessions of increase in a row, to 7.223,98 points, the S & P 500 accruing to 11.82 and the Nasdaq 12.84. A week of exception which benefited to a lesser extent in other global stock exchanges. CAC 40 repeated 7.40 a, Futsee 5,96 and the DAX 7.08, while the Nikkei has appreciated by 6.82, mainly on Friday session (5.15).

Investors keep eye hijacked on stimulus plans, the wire of the weeks ahead in more ambitious. And to cause, world economic machine is at a standstill. The meeting of the g-20 finance ministers pointed out this weekend (see page 7). Nothing really tangible at the end. Just a preparatory work for the Summit on 2 April and a semblance of cohesion for the procedure.
Publication of figures
What does not here there, catches of profits on the Stock Exchange after the thunderstrike increase in recent days. That the lot of economic figures this week may again destabilize many fragile building, deserted by the volumes of transactions. Today, statistics bodies draw a first salvo in the US: Empire State of industrial activity, industrial production, NAHB housing survey. Tomorrow, it will be the turn of the price of production and of housing starts. Wednesday will be published prices and consumption, Thursday, leading indicators. On this side of the Atlantic, the Germany will deliver tomorrow's ZEW confidence index.
Investors will also receive from the speech of Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), today, and Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve (Fed) pattern, Friday. Meanwhile, the US Central Bank will together its Committee of monetary policy Tuesday and Wednesday. As its margin of manoeuvre is almost zero because its interest rate fluctuates between 0 and 0.25, nothing is expected apart from in the end of session press release. At the G20 this weekend, it was stated that major monetary institutions maintain expansionary policies as long as necessary while keeping the stability of prices in the eye and will not hesitate to resort to less conventional measures such as the massive injections of liquidity and other financing facilities. Of the acquis for market operators, waiting in the immediate future of the concrete measures on buybacks of toxic assets to clean up the world financial system and thus lay the foundation of a sustainable rebound.