Stock Indexes of U.S. and Europe up to the December 13, 2010

/IRBIS, December 14, 2010/ - As a result of trading December 13, 2010 importance of indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe was: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Trend (in %) for ------------------------- Dec. 13, 2010 from the History max.** a day* a month beginning of 2010 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- CAC 40 3,892.44 +0.91 +1.60 -3.03 6,944.70 FTSE 100 5,860.75 +0.82 +1.10 +6.55 8,105.69 BEL20 2,636.87 +0.34 +0.45 +2.84 4,756.82 DAX 7,029.39 +0.33 +4.38 +16.22 8,136.16 MADX INDX. 1,033.19 +0.24 -1.35 -18.15 1,724.95 Dow Jones 11,428.56 +0.16 +2.11 +7.98 13,727.03 S&P 500 1,240.46 +0.005 +3.44 +9.49 1,565.16 Swiss 6,519.08 -0.001 +0.21 -1.69 9,531.46 NASDAQ 2,624.91 -0.48 +4.24 +13.71 5,048.62 ----------- ------------- ------ ------- ---------- -------------- MSCI Europe 95.89 +0.28 +2.33 +8.62 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Trading on the U.S. stock market on Monday ended a floating line. Investors pleased with the fact that the People's Bank of China did not raise interest rates to combat rising inflation. Instead, the central bank again raised the reserve requirements on bank deposits 0.5 percentage points from December 20, 2010, for the sixth time this year. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, consumer price growth in China up to the November 2010 accelerated by 0.7 percentage points to 5.1% compared with November 2009. European share indexes were closed on Monday growth. Support was also provided reports from China. The current account deficit of balance of payments of France, seasonally adjusted, in October 2010 totaled 2.5 billion euros. According to revised data, in September of the current account deficit of balance of payments of France was 4.4 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 December 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. [2010-12-14]