Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the April 12, 2010

/IRBIS, April 13, 2010/ - As a result of trading April 12, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** April 12, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- NASDAQ 2,454.05 +0.71 +3.88 +8.15 5,048.62 MADX INDX. 1,184.98 +0.66 +3.22 -4.56 1,724.95 BEL20 2,714.81 +0.44 +8.09 +7.61 4,756.82 Swiss 6,910.96 +0.32 +1.25 +5.58 9,531.46 S&P 500 1,196.48 +0.18 +3.19 +7.29 1,565.16 DAX 6,250.69 +0.16 +5.43 +4.96 8,136.16 FTSE 100 5,777.65 +0.12 +2.43 +6.74 8,105.69 Dow Jones 11,005.97 +0.08 +3.41 +5.54 13,727.03 CAC 40 4,050.51 +0.01 +3.09 +2.90 6,944.70 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 93.38 -0.13 +4.80 +5.78 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation On Monday Bidding for major U.S. stock markets ended with a moderate rise. Amid the lack of important macroeconomic and corporate news, traders relied on external factors such as growth indices in Asia and the communication of European politicians who have declared for the Greek loan. In addition, the growth of quotations in the States was due to positive expectations of market participants, start of the corporate reports season. Stock Indices of European sites have completed the trading session of the day with not big changes on the levels of opening. In the morning, market participants essentially cheered reported willingness of some leading European countries to provide a loan of Greece in the amount of 30 billion euros at 5% per annum. In turn, the IMF also promised to provide funds to reduce the country's budget deficit of 14 billion euros. In the afternoon quotations regional sites came down, stemming from UniCredit SpA analysts forecast about the prospects of securities of European companies, which, according to analysts, will "slowly but inevitably" lose in price. FTSE 100 Index - stock index, calculated Agency Financial Times based on rates 100 companies with the largest capitalization on the list of the London Stock Exchange. DAX - Germany's stock index. Calculated as weighted average capitalization value stock prices of the largest companies in Germany. CAC 40 - France's stock market index. Calculated as weighted average capitalization value stock prices 40 largest companies whose shares are traded on the stock exchange Euronext Paris. BEL20 - key stock index, Belgium. Calculated on the Brussels Stock Exchange. The index comprises 10 to 20 companies. MADX Index - main index of the Madrid area, calculated on the basis of capitalization of the shares of leading companies in Spain. SMI-includes shares of 20 largest companies traded on the Swiss Exchange. S&P 500 - one of the major U.S. stock indices, a basket which included 500 selected companies in the U.S. having the largest capitalization. DJIA - the oldest among the existing U.S. market indexes, covers the 30 largest U.S. companies. Nasdaq Composite Index - a composite index NASDAQ, includes more than five thousand companies (both American and foreign), which are in listing NASDAQ. MSCI Europe - a composite index of market capitalization of developed stock markets in Europe. Since September 2002, MSCI Europe Index consists of the following 16 developed market country indices: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. [2010-04-13]