Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky announced progress in peace talks. The Warsaw Stock Exchange reacts
On Monday morning, during the opening of the session on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (the first day of trading since last Tuesday), stock indices increased slightly. WIG gained 0.15 percent. and reached 116,324 points, and WIG20 grew by 0.2%. and reached 3162 points. At that time, the mood on European stock exchanges was neutral, with the pan-European Stoxx Europe 600 index gaining less than 0.1%.
“Asian stock markets are starting the last week of 2025 in mixed moods. At the time of writing the comment, the Japanese Nikkei is losing about 0.5 percent, the Hang Seng is oscillating around the neutral level, while the Korean KOSPI is gaining 1.8 percent.” – wrote Patryk Pyka, director of the DI Xelion analysis and investment advisory team, in his morning comment.
“We assume that the last sessions this year will maintain the increased risk appetite on the stock markets,” he added.
Warsaw indices are near their peaks. WIG recently set a new historical maximum of 116,981 points, and WIG20 set a record for this boom at around 3,186 points (the highest in history is the dividend version of this indicator, i.e. WIG20 Total Return). This year, ending on Wednesday, WIG has gained over 46% and the blue chip index has gained 44%.
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky announced that they made progress toward ending the war during their conversation. Zelensky said that most of the key points and US security guarantees for Ukraine had been agreed. Trump encouraged Ukraine to give up unoccupied lands and said he understood Putin's opposition to a ceasefire.
Zelensky's talks with Trump
— The Prosperity Plan for Ukraine is being finalized, we have also discussed the sequence of next steps and we agree that security guarantees are a key milestone in achieving lasting peace, and our teams will continue to work on all aspects, Zelensky said. He also stated that a joint visit of European leaders to Washington is possible.
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Trump also spoke by phone with Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader said at one of the command posts of the armed forces on Saturday that Russia would achieve all its goals “by armed means” if Ukraine did not want to resolve the conflict peacefully, Reuters reported.
There has been good sentiment on global stock markets lately. Friday's session on Wall Street ended with minimal declines in the main indexes, after the S&P 500 set new historical records for several days.
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For the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.4%, marking its fourth weekly gain in five weeks. The Dow and Nasdaq also rose more than 1%. this week.
