Last week market sentiment was determined by the information from the negotiations between the Greek government and its creditors. Monday brought a bit of optimistic news. Belief in achieving consensus reached most of the indices a few percent above closing line. During the rest of the week, investors were trying to maintain gained profits and waiting for a solution to the Greek case. Depending on the tone of the incoming information the main European stock indices were moving up and down.

Another disappointing week on the Warsaw Stock Exchange was crowned with strong declines on the triple witching day, which is the day when contracts expire, June contracts this time. During whole week the WIG index lost 1.7% mainly due to Friday session. Indices of small and medium-sized companies were dropping by about 2%.

Last week was another unfortunate week for the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Although the largest companies index (WIG20) declined by only 0.3%, small and medium-sized companies dropped dramatically by 1.2% (mWIG40) and 2.3% (sWIG80). Small caps index broke the support level of 13 500 points. As a result, a broad WIG index lost 0.6% in value. The WIG20 followed global sentiment, the scale of the decline was similar to situation on Western Europe exchanges.

Last week was another week of bear domination not only on WSE but also globally. Correction on the stock market was even present on Wall Street, where the S&P500 index dropped on a weekly basis second time in a row. This time index fell by 0.7%, but this time breaking down the barrier of 2100 points round. Larger-scale declines were observed in Western Europe, where major indices - the DAX and the CAC40 - were down by less than 2%.

Last week in the capital markets we saw correction that on some exchanges took quite a substantial size. First of all, this refers to the DAX, that declined by 3.4%. Other euro zone markets followed - CAC40 fell by 2.6% and the Madrid IBEX by 2.9%. Athens exchange, which is the main source of the problems, was not the worst, as it declined only by 1.8%.