Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the July 21, 2010

/IRBIS, July 22, 2010/ - As a result of trading July 21, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** July 21, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- FTSE 100 5,214.64 +1.46 -1.59 -5.19 8,105.69 BEL20 2,451.93 +1.43 -3.84 -4.37 4,756.82 CAC 40 3,493.92 +0.75 -6.48 -12.96 6,944.70 DAX 5,990.38 +0.38 -4.81 -0.96 8,136.16 Swiss 6,132.66 +0.15 -5.93 -7.52 9,531.46 MADX INDX. 1,039.00 -0.26 -0.25 -17.69 1,724.95 Dow Jones 10,120.53 -1.07 -3.08 -4.38 13,727.03 S&P 500 1,069.59 -1.28 -3.92 -5.60 1,565.16 NASDAQ 2,187.33 -1.58 -4.45 -5.25 5,048.62 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 86.43 +1.14 -3.48 -2.10 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation U.S. stock exchanges on Wednesday closed in the red zone, the long-awaited speech of Mr. Ben Bernanke, U.S. Federal Reserve in the U.S. Congress disappointed investors and stock indexes went down. According to statements chapter Fed forecasts economic recovery after the crisis "extremely uncertain". He said the reasons for the slow recovery deficits are a number of states. This fact, according to Mr. Bernanke, may lead to the loss of numerous jobs. Support was provided by a message on the growth of net profit Apple Inc. in the second quarter of 2009-2010 financial years by 78% to $ 3.25 billion, or $ 3.51 per share, versus $ 1.82 billion, or $ 2.01 per share, for the same period last year. The increase was due to good sales of new products, iPad and iPhone 4. Analysts expected earnings of $ 3.11 per share. Apple's revenues for the period totaled $ 15.7 billion, compared with $ 9.73 billion company's sales rose 61% to $ 15.7 billion analysts had expected growth to $ 14.7 billion Net profit Morgan Stanley in the first half of 2010 was $ 3.28 billion the year before the bank received a loss of $ 155 million Morgan Stanley Revenue rose to $ 17.03 billion from $ 8.09 billion a year earlier. Thus, the bank's profit was $ 2.08 per share. Corporation Coca- Cola Co. reported that its profit for the second quarter of 2010 increased 16% to $ 2.37 billion, or $ 1.02 per share. Revenue rose 5% to $ 8.67 billion operating profit was $ 1.06 per share, while analysts expected $ 1.02 per share. European stock indices, by contrast, finished the day in positive territory. Investors do not have time to respond to the pessimistic statements by Mr. Ben Bernanke about the prospects for restoring the U.S. economy and have focused their attention on positive corporate news. As it became known on Wednesday, BP compensate for the effects of the accident in the Gulf of Mexico will sell its assets for $ 7 billion U.S. Apache Corporation. The list of assets being sold are gas deposits in Texas and New Mexico (worth $ 3.1 billion), Western Canada ($ 3.25 billion) in the Western Desert of Egypt ($ 650 million), as well as Pakistan and Vietnam ($1.7 billion). In addition, the company denied rumors of resignation from the company of its head, Mr. Tony Hayward. 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. [2010-07-22]