Global stock indices after trades on April 22, 2009

/IRBIS, Renat Temirbekov, April 23, 09/ - The value of global stock indices after trades on April 22, 2009: -------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------- since 22.04.09 a day a month 2009 Historic maximum* --------- -------- ----- ------- ----- ----------------- DJIA 7,886.57 -1.04 +6.6 -12.7 13,727.03 S&P 500 843.55 -0.77 +8.4 -9.5 1,565.15 Nasdaq 1,646.12 +0.14 +12.6 +4.4 5,048.62 FTSE-100 4,594.20 +2.06 +15.2 -4.5 6,930.20 DAX 4,030.66 +1.08 +4.5 -11.6 8,105.69 CAC 40 3,025.24 +1.72 +9.3 -9.7 6,922.33 Nikkei225 8,727.30 +0.18 +9.8 -1.5 38,916.00 RTSI 785.13 +1.28 +18.0 +24.3 2,487.92 -------------------------------------------------------- *historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation After the trades on April 22, 2009, the USA stock markets closed with the following changes: "blue chips" index Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) decreased by 1.04 %, broad market index S&P500 - by 0.77 %, high-tech NASDAQ Composite increased by 0.14 %. The following stocks have influenced the stock indices. Gilead Sciences took a leading position on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The net income of the company was $0.66 per share, which exceeded analysts' expectation. The quarterly profit of Wells Farge ($3 bn.) has increased company shares by 6 %, while the shares of Morgan Stanley decreased by 3 %. The profit of McDonald's exceeded investors' expectations, increasing by 3.5 % as well. The shares increased by 0.6 %. Analysts of Goldman Sach raised the rating of Ford Motor Co up to "buy" level. They noted an improvement of the company's situation in connection with the sector structure modification. The stock markets were improved in Europe. Electrolux AB has announced the reduction of losses for the first quarter. In addition, the growth of American stock markets supported Europe stock markets after publication of the optimistic quarter report of AT&T. Japanese stock market was grown by 0.18 %. The reason of slow growth was the quotations falling of the financial companies in Japan. In particular, the shares of Takefuji Corp. fell by 8.5 %, after the agency Standard & Poor's changed the rating to list of CreditWatch with a negative forecast. [2009-04-23]