Warsaw Market & Carbon Watch - Tuesday 12 February

Greetings from Kiev!  Here is this morning’s Ukrainian stock performance summary, from the Warsaw Stock Exchange, based on the prior trading day's closing bell.  As a whole, the Warsaw Stock Exchange closed positively (+0.10%), compared to mixed screens across the main European markets (FTSE +0.21%, STOXX -0.29%, CAC +0.03%, DAX -0.24%, IBEX -1.18%) and red U.S. markets (DOW -0.16%, S&P -0.06%, NASDAQ -0.06%).  Looking at Ukrainian equities in particular across the Warsaw Stock Exchange, their index slightly outperformed the main Warsaw equities index, closing up (+0.64%) with gains in Coal Energy, Astarta, Kernel and IMC carrying the day.  From a market depth standpoint, the highest trading volumes occurred in IMC (154,599 shares), Kernel (110,617 shares) and Sadovaya (34,161 shares).

For specific results kindly see the table below, prices denoted in Polish currency (Zlotys).  Cheers – Jon

WSE WIG Index (total return index for Warsaw Stock Exchange listed companies): 46786.738 (+0.10%)

WSE WIG-Ukraine Index (total return index for Ukrainian listed companies):  692.59 (+0.64%) 

Ovostar Union NV (OVO PW):  98.90 (-1.10%)

Kernel Holding SA (KER PW):  66.00 (+0.76%)

Agroton Public Limited (AGT PW):  10.56 (-4.00%)

Astarta Holding NV (AST PW):  64.55 (+1.65%)

Industrial Milk Co (IMC PW):  16.28 (+0.49%)

KSG Agro SA (KSG PW):  12.65 (-4.53%)

Milkiland (MLK PW):  15.50 (-1.15%)

KDM Shipping Plc (KDM PW):  27.19 (unch%)

Coal Energy SA (CLE PW): 13.09 (+4.72%)

Sadovaya Group SA (SGR PW):  1.80 (-1.10%)

Westa Intl Scientific Group (WES PW):  0.68 (unch%)

Carbon Trading

The ICE daily CER continued to trade in range, closing flat after opening higher initially and returning to 0.13 EURO (unch%).  ERUs are trading around 50% of this price with virtually no volume in carbon credits trading on the exchange.  The EU ETS market remains the "sick man of Europe" as eyes and ears carefully follow today's State of the Union address by President Barack Obama for possible clues to a U.S. climate action plan between now and 2016.