Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the April 14, 2010

/IRBIS, April 15, 2010/ - As a result of trading April 14, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** April 14, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- NASDAQ 2,504.86 +1.58 +4.85 +10.39 5,048.62 S&P 500 1,210.65 +1.16 +3.84 +8.57 1,565.16 Dow Jones 11,123.11 +0.94 +3.63 +6.67 13,727.03 DAX 6,278.41 +0.76 +6.35 +5.42 8,136.16 CAC 40 4,057.71 +0.64 +4.29 +3.08 6,944.70 FTSE 100 5,796.25 +0.60 +3.03 +7.08 8,105.69 Swiss 6,916.59 +0.45 +1.34 +5.66 9,531.46 MADX INDX. 1,189.77 +0.38 +3.84 -4.18 1,724.95 BEL20 2,716.71 +0.28 +4.14 +8.16 4,756.82 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 93.79 +0.65 +5.26 +6.24 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Bidding for major U.S. stock markets on Wednesday ended with strong growth, with the index value S & P 500 managed to exceed the following day psychologically important level of 1 200 points. Positive attitude of players was determined by a number of macroeconomic and corporate data. For example, retail sales last month rose by 1.6%, while analysts had expected an increase of 1.2%. Sales growth at the secondary car market also exceeded the expectations of professionals and has made 0.6%. At the same time, the consumer price index CPI showed last month the dynamics of decline, while analysts expect that the value will remain at the same level of 0.1%. From the corporate news is worth mentioning the publication of reports Intel, reported an increase in profit in the first quarter of 2010 to $2.4 billion, or $ 0.43 per share, compared with $ 629 million, or $ 0.11 per share a year earlier, as well as Reporting JPMorgan Chase, the net profit is in the first quarter of 2010 increased by 54% to $ 3.3 billion against $ 2.14 billion in the first quarter of 2009. Major European stock indexes also sites on the day significantly added to the capitalization. In addition, good corporate reports from Intel and JPMorgan, as well as data on the growth of retail sales in the U.S., an additional source of positively for regional players served as the statistics on industrial production, add in the past month, 0.9%, while analysts had expected growth of only 0.3%. 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. [2010-04-15]