Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the August 9, 2010

/IRBIS, August 10, 2010/ - As a result of trading August 9, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------- from the History max.** August 9, 2010 a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- CAC 40 3,777.37 +1.65 +6.27 -5.89 6,944.70 DAX 6,351.60 +1.469 +4.72 +5.01 8,136.16 FTSE 100 5,410.52 +1.465 +5.41 -1.63 8,105.69 MADX INDX. 1,119.01 +1.46 +6.61 -11.36 1,724.95 Swiss 6,391.74 +1.11 +2.92 -3.61 9,531.46 BEL20 2,571.02 +0.83 +4.40 +0.27 4,756.82 NASDAQ 2,305.69 +0.75 +4.97 -0.12 5,048.62 S&P 500 1,127.79 +0.55 +4.62 -0.46 1,565.16 Dow Jones 10,698.75 +0.42 +4.91 +1.08 13,727.03 ----------- -------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 90.91 +1.38 +4.88 +2.98 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Trading on U.S. stock markets on Monday ended with the growth of the major indices, despite the absence of a commercially important macroeconomic statistics. Against this backdrop, investors focused on the forthcoming meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Investors expect that the regulator will take some measures to stimulate the economy. Recall the last published statistics showed a slow recovery of the U.S. economy. In the market dominated by the expectation that in this case, the Fed could resort to buying mortgage bonds. During the first half of 2010 net loss of one of the nation's largest mortgage agencies Freddie Mac rose 18% to $ 11.4 billion, compared with a net loss for the first half of 2009 of $ 9.67 billion for the second quarter 2010 loss was $ 4.7 billion, compared with a profit of $ 302 million for the same period last year. In this regard, Freddie Mac has once again appealed to the U.S. government with a request to provide financial support amounting to $ 1.8 billion European stock indices also showed growth on the background of rising cost of raw materials, the situation in the U.S. market, as well as local macroeconomic and corporate news. Shares of British BP rose 1.7% after reports that the U.S. Department of Justice and BP have concluded negotiations to establish a fund volume of $ 20 billion to offset the damage caused by the accident at the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf. Paper Europe's largest insurance company Allianz SE rose by 0.8%: The company reported that its net profit in the second quarter of 2010 decreased by 45.6% to 1.01 billion euros, compared with a profit of 1,86 billion euros during the same period a year earlier. Gross revenues grew by 14.5% and amounted to 25.4 billion euros. Operating profit for the second quarter of 2010 amounted to 2.19 billion euro against 1.78 billion euro for the second quarter of 2009. Positive trade balance of Germany in June 2010, seasonally adjusted, month rose to 12.3 billion euros. Analysts had expected the indicator would be 12.0 billion euros. 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. [2010-08-10]