Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the April 16, 2010

/IRBIS, April 19, 2010/ - As a result of trading April 16, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** April 16, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- CAC 40 4,079.81 +0.35 +3.08 +3.65 6,944.70 DAX 6,297.26 +0.09 +4.53 +5.74 8,136.16 MADX INDX. 1,193.07 +0.07 +4.15 -3.19 1,724.95 BEL20 2,637.86 -1.02 +0.82 +6.99 4,756.82 Swiss 6,893.69 -1.06 +0.02 +5.31 9,531.46 Dow Jones 11,018.66 -1.13 +2.58 +5.66 13,727.03 NASDAQ 2,481.36 -1.37 +3.76 +9.35 5,048.62 FTSE 100 5,743.96 -1.39 +2.19 +6.12 8,105.69 S&P 500 1,192.13 -1.61 +2.26 +6.91 1,565.16 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 92.91 -1.55 +2.40 +5.24 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Bidding for major U.S. stock markets on Friday ended in a collapse of what was the fault of the SEC charges of one of country's largest banks Goldman Sachs in fraud. The lawsuit SEC alleged that the hedge fund Paulson & Co, together with Goldman Sachs considered the guarantor of debt obligations, they profited from the devaluation, with the result that investors lost more than $ 1 billion in macroeconomic data also pressured the market, so the index of consumer confidence calculated by the University of Michigan / Reuters, declined in April this year, up 69.5 points compared with 73.6 points at the end of March 2010. Analysts polled by Bloomberg, expected growth in the index to 75.0 points. Trading in Europe also ended mostly in the red zone; the weak macroeconomic data from the U.S. added a portion of the negative in connection with the accusations Goldman Sachs. Published in Europe, macroeconomic statistics also proved to be weaker than forecast, as consumer price index in the region in annual terms grew by only 1.4%, while analysts had expected growth of at least 1.5%. 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. [2010-04-19]