Better than for quite some time

The markets in Western Europe and the US also registered decreases, but much smaller than those in Japan. However, analysts have pointed out that the desire to make profits could lead to a correction on western markets, after the stock exchanges of developed countries reached pre-crisis levels at the beginning of 2013. This is all the more so because despite some actually rather good data, particularly from the US (a 2.4 pct increase in GDP in Q1 2013 and some healthy-looking consumer confidence indexes), the potential for stock exchange listed companies to improve their profits is limited. Meanwhile, in Warsaw the indexes strengthened: the WIG gained nearly 5 pct and the WIG20 grew by 4 pct, going some way to making up the gap from falling behind the Western stock exchanges in Q1. Analysts continue to point out that global investors might be willing to re-direct the money stream to the markets of emerging countries, a move that could be prompted by the high index levels of developed c