/IRBIS, Renat Temirbekov, May 06, 09/ - The value of global stock indices after trades on May 05, 2009:

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                       Trend (in %) for
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                                  since Historic maximum*
          05.05.09 a day a month   2009
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DJIA       8410.65 -0.19   +4.90  -6.91         13,727.03
S&P 500     903.80 -0.38   +7.28  -3.00          1,565.15
Nasdaq     1754.12 -0.54   +8.15 +11.23          5,048.62
DAX        4853.03 -1.01  +10.67  +0.89          6,930.20
FTSE-100   4336.94 +2.21   +7.62  -4.93          8,105.69
CAC 40     3225.00 -0.40   +9.00  -3.72          6,922.33
Nikkei225  8977.37     0   +2.60  +1.33         38,916.00
RTSI        871.58 +1.86  +16.83 +37.93          2,487.92
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*historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation

On Tuesday, the American stock market demonstrated a slight decline. The shares of Chevron Corporation decreased by 1.4 % percent, JPMorgan - by 2.7 %, Microsoft - by 2.0% and Procter and Gamble - by 2.4%. Analysts concentrated on the results of stress-tests of the leading banks of the USA and publication of data on retail sales for April.

The stock markets in Europe closed multidirectional movement of the leading indices influenced by the corporate news. The leading were shares of financial and commodities companies. The shares of Swiss bank UBS AG rose by 2.3 % after the bank announced that net spending decreased in 6 times during the firs quarter of 2009.The increase of the British construction index to 38.1 points in April affected the share prices of the building materials supplier Wolseley PLS and construction company Balfour Beatty Plc, which climbed by 10.0 % and 2.8 % respectively.

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