Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the August 3, 2010

/IRBIS, August 4, 2010/ - As a result of trading August 3, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** August 3, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- BEL20 2,588.92 +0.37 +10.77 +0.97 4,756.82 MADX INDX. 1,125.53 +0.32 +17.35 -10.84 1,724.95 Swiss 6,337.72 +0.25 +6.08 -4.43 9,531.46 DAX 6,307.91 +0.25 +8.12 +4.29 8,136.16 FTSE 100 5,396.48 -0.01 +11.54 -1.89 8,105.69 CAC 40 3,747.51 -0.12 +11.92 -6.64 6,944.70 Dow Jones 10,636.38 -0.36 +9.81 +0.50 13,727.03 S&P 500 1,120.46 -0.48 +9.57 -1.11 1,565.16 NASDAQ 2,283.52 -0.52 +9.17 -1.08 5,048.62 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 90.87 +0.01 +10.48 +2.93 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Indices of U.S. stock exchanges have completed the previous day's session lower on a background of disappointing investors, macroeconomic data and quarterly reports of U.S. companies. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, personal incomes in June remained unchanged. Real incomes adjusted for inflation and taxes rose in June at 0.2%. Personal expenses, taking into account inflation rose by 0.1%. The analysts forecast growth in personal income by 0.2%, while expenses - 0.1%. In addition, the Commerce Department reported a decrease in June 2010 the volume of industrial orders by 1.2% compared to the previous month. Analysts expected a more moderate decline, at 0.5%. According to the National Association of Realtors, the index of pending transactions for the sale of housing in the U.S. in June fell by 2.6% to 75.7 points. Analysts had expected growth to 0.6%. The world's largest producer of consumer products Procter & Gamble Co. reported that during the fourth quarter of 2009- 2010 financial years. Its net profit declined by 12% to $ 2.19 billion, compared with $ 2.47 billion during the same period a year earlier. Net sales for the quarter grew by 5% to $ 18.93 billion against $ 18.08 billion in April - June 2009. MasterCard Inc. reported that its net profit for the second quarter of 2010 totaled $ 458 million, or $ 3.49 per share, compared with $ 349 million, or $ 2.67 per share, received a year earlier. Revenue rose to $ 1.37 billion from $ 1.28 billion a year earlier. Analysts expected earnings of $ 3.33 per share, sales - $ 1.38 billion European stocks showed mixed trends. Bidding for the European sites were opened in positive territory, but the markets began to experience negative pressure of news from the U.S.. Net profit of Europe's largest postal service Deutsche Post AG in the second quarter of 2010 increased by 22.7% to 81 million euros, compared to 66 million euros a year earlier. Revenues rose 15.5% to $ 12.79 billion. As it became known on Tuesday, pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis SA has made an offer to buy the world's largest producer of drugs for the treatment of genetic diseases, Genzyme Corp. for $ 18.4 billion, Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) AG reported that its net profit in the second quarter of 2010 totaled 834 million euros, against a net loss of 31 million euros a year earlier. Revenues in the second quarter of 2010 rose 18% to 15.35 billion euros. Profit before tax grew 8.5 times to 1.29 billion euros. Industrial prices in the euro area in June 2010 increased compared to the previous month by 0.3%. Analysts had expected growth of 0.4%. 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. [2010-08-04]