Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the November 2, 2010

/IRBIS, November 3, 2010/ - As a result of trading November 2, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trend (in %) for ------------------------- Nov. 2, 2010 from the History max.** a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- ------------ ------ ------- ---------- -------------- NASDAQ 2,533.52 +1.14 +6.87 +9.75 5,048.62 FTSE 100 5,757.43 +1.10 +2.94 +4.67 8,105.69 MADX INDX. 1,104.40 +0.98 +2.55 -12.51 1,724.95 S&P 500 1,193.57 +0.78 +4.13 +5.35 1,565.16 DAX 6,654.31 +0.75 +7.13 +10.02 8,136.16 CAC 40 3,865.72 +0.64 +4.70 -3.69 6,944.70 Dow Jones 11,188.72 +0.58 +3.32 +5.71 13,727.03 Swiss 6,541.50 +0.57 +4.09 -1.36 9,531.46 BEL20 2,696.69 +0.31 +4.55 +5.18 4,756.82 ----------- ------------ ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 92.73 +0.44 +3.25 +5.04 144.21 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Indexes of U.S. stock market on Tuesday closed down the growth. Nov. 2 began a long-awaited meeting of Federal Open Market Committee U.S. Federal Reserve, which is expected to lead to decisions about an infusion of additional liquidity by buying bonds. The most optimistic analysts tend to expect that the volume of purchases could exceed $ 500 billion in additional influence on the bidding had elections in the U.S. Congress. MasterCard Inc. reported an increase in net profit for 9 months of 2010 by 22.2% to $ 1.43 billion compared with $ 1.17 billion a year earlier. Revenue rose during the reporting period to 7.9%. European stocks on Tuesday and finished the session a slight increase against the background of expectations of the end of the meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve. BP Plc. reported that its net profit in the third quarter of 2010 decreased by 66.6% to $ 1.78 billion versus $ 5.33 billion a year earlier. This decrease was due to costs of the company's accident in the Gulf of Mexico. In this case, total revenue of BP in the third quarter of 2010 increased by 10% to $ 74.65 billion. 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 November 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. [2010-11-03]