Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the July 20, 2010

/IRBIS, July 21, 2010/ - As a result of trading July 20, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** July 20, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MADX INDX. 1,041.70 +1.28 +0.87 -17.48 1,724.95 S&P 500 1,083.48 +1.14 -3.05 -4.37 1,565.16 NASDAQ 2,222.49 +1.10 -3.78 -3.72 5,048.62 Dow Jones 10,229.96 +0.74 -2.11 -3.34 13,727.03 FTSE 100 5,139.46 -0.17 -2.12 -6.56 8,105.69 CAC 40 3,468.02 -0.53 -5.94 -13.60 6,944.70 Swiss 6,123.42 -0.54 -5.02 -7.66 9,531.46 BEL20 2,417.34 -0.58 -4.41 -5.72 4,756.82 DAX 5,967.49 -0.69 -4.01 -1.34 8,136.16 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 85.46 +0.09 -3.53 -3.19 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation U.S. stock exchanges on Tuesday continued to rise, despite fairly strong pressure, which was provided to release the quarterly corporate reporting, somewhat disappointing investors. Net profit of IBM in the second quarter rose to $ 3.4 billion, or $ 2.61 on the share, which exceeded analysts' expectations of $ 2.58 on the share. However, a company's revenues are not impressed by the market, revenues totaled $ 23.7 billion, compared with the expected $ 24.2 billion in distressed investors and reporting Goldman Sachs Group, showed a decrease in net profit in the second quarter by 83% to $ 453 million in the bank itself explained this fact is the cost of $ 600 million due to the introduction of the UK tax on the bonuses the bankers, as well as $ 550 million that the bank spent to pay fines to the Commission on the Securities and Exchange Commission. Net profit of Johnson & Johnson for the quarter totaled $ 3.45 billion, or $ 1.23 per share, compared with $ 1.15 per share a year earlier. Revenues totaled $ 15.22 billion analysts predicted that revenues will be $ 15.69 billion net profit of PepsiCo during the second quarter fell by 3% to $ 1.6 billion, or $ 0.98. Revenue rose to $ 14.8 billion, however, despite this negative background, the indices were able to complete the session in positive territory, largely due to speculations on the expectation of performance heads the U.S. Federal Reserve Mr. Ben Bernanke before Congress this week. It is expected that the report will focus on supporting the credit market. Moreover, investors expect that the Senate of the Congress to expand the program of unemployment benefits. European stocks on Tuesday closed mostly in the "minus" on the background of negative macroeconomic and corporate news from the U.S.. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the volume of new homes in the country in June 2010 decreased by 5% to 549 thousand experts had expected a decline to 580 thousand industrial prices in Germany in June 2010 increased by 0.6%. Analysts had expected growth to 0.2%. The Greek Government has announced the successful placement on the market of Treasury bonds for a period of 13 weeks, the proceeds from the placement amounted to 1.95 billion euros. The yield of bonds amounted to 4.05%. Recall that on April 20 Greece has already deployed its 6-month bonds totaling 1.625 billion euros under yield 4.65%. 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. [2010-07-21]