Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the July 15, 2010

/IRBIS, July 16, 2010/ - As a result of trading July 15, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** July 15, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- S&P 500 1,096.48 +0.12 -1.68 -3.22 1,565.16 NASDAQ 2,249.08 -0.03 -2.46 -2.57 5,048.62 Dow Jones 10,359.31 -0.07 -0.44 -2.12 13,727.03 Swiss 6,291.07 -0.65 -2.99 -5.13 9,531.46 FTSE 100 5,211.29 -0.80 -0.13 -5.26 8,105.69 DAX 6,149.36 -0.97 -0.42 +1.67 8,136.16 BEL20 2,495.05 -1.07 -0.57 -2.69 4,756.82 MADX INDX. 1,052.17 -1.23 +4.49 -16.65 1,724.95 CAC 40 3,581.82 -1.41 -2.18 -10.77 6,944.70 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 87.72 -1.14 -0.50 -0.63 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation U.S. stock exchanges on Thursday closed lower major indices, only the S & P 500 managed to grow a little. Pressure on the mood of investors is concerned about the slowing U.S. economy and China. Index, Philadelphia Fed business activity in July 2010 fell sharply to 5.1 points, with the expected 10-12 points. The index of activity in the manufacturing sector FRB of New York in July also declined to 5.08, analysts' expected value of 18.5 points. Index of producer prices in June 2010 fell by 0.5%, analysts expected at least a significant reduction, by 0,1%. Official data from China is also not pleased with: the Government reported on the growth of the economy in the second quarter at 10.3% instead of the expected 10.5%. At this negative background could not support the data on the state of the labor market from the U.S. Department of Labor. As indicated, the number of initial applications for unemployment benefit for the week ending July 10 fell by 29 thousand to 429 thousand Analysts expected reduction of up to 445 thousand quarterly corporate reports have been More than a rainbow, but they were unable to produce proper effect. The largest U.S. commercial bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported that its revenue in the second quarter of 2010 fell by 8% to $ 25.61 billion, net income was $ 1.09 per share, which exceeded analysts' expectations of 2.8 times. European stocks also closed yesterday in the "red zone" under the pressure of negative early trading on U.S. markets. Government of Germany has lowered its growth forecast for the budget deficit to 4.5% of GDP in 2010, while in 2012 the budget deficit will be reduced to 3% of GDP. Previously predicted that the value of the index in 2010 will be 5.5% of GDP. 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. [2010-07-16]