The main US stock indexes finished Thursday with growth after two days of decline, despite the negative statistics on the labor market. By the end of the day Dow Jones added 1.02%, S&P 500 - 1.74%, NASDAQ - 2.64%.

Yesterday the U.S. employment data was released. The number of initial jobless claims over the previous week, as expected, grew by 9,000 and came to 225,000. The total number of jobless claims grew unexpectedly to 1710,000, which was worse than the forecast of 1686,000. The dollar index accelerated its decline on this news - in the evening it lost 0.48%, dropping to 103.7 points.

According to Oanda chief market analyst Craig Erlam, cited by Prime news agency with reference to France-Presse, at the beginning of January the main topic worrying the market players will remain the plans of the world central banks concerning the interest rates and the degree of their readiness for further tightening of credit and monetary policy.