Stock indices of USA and Europe by the end of July 6, 2011

/IRBIS, July 7, 2011/ - As a result of trading on July 6, 2011 indices of share platforms of the U.S. and Europe were: ------------------------------------------------------- Changes (in %) for -------------------- for hist. July 6, 2011 1 day* 1 month 2011 maximum** ----------- ------------ ------ ------- ----- --------- Dow Jones 12,626.02 +0.45 +2.73 +8.19 13,727.03 NASDAQ 2,834.02 +0.29 +2.34 +5.29 5,048.62 S&P 500 1,339.22 +0.10 +1.88 +5.30 1,565.16 DAX 7,431.19 -0.11 +2.96 +6.32 8,136.16 FTSE 100 6,002.92 -0.35 +1.25 -0.18 8,105.69 CAC 40 3,961.34 -0.44 -0.09 +1.55 6,944.70 BEL20 2,549.11 -0.89 -4.28 -3.14 4,756.82 Swiss 6,179.35 -1.02 -4.88 -4.84 9,531.46 MADX INDX. 1,034.25 -1.29 -1.76 +2.72 1,724.95 ----------- ------------ ------ ------- ----- --------- MSCI Europe 94.85 -0.28 -1.25 -1.30 144.21 ------------------------------------------------------- * rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Trading on the U.S. stock market on Wednesday finished with increase higher against the major indexes to wait out the status of the employment market in the country. At the same time macroeconomic news, published yesterday in the U.S., had been negative. The index of business activity in the U.S. service sector, which is calculated by the Institute for Supply Management, in June 2011 decreased by 1.3 percentage points - to 53.3% from 54.6% in May. Analysts had expected a smaller decline of 0.9 percentage points - to 53.7%. European stocks, in contrast, have completed the trading day in negative territory. On the eve of the international rating agency Moody's downgraded the rating on sovereign debt to Portugal "junk" level: the rating on long- term government bonds was reduced to four stops immediately, to Ba2 from Baa1 with a "negative" outlook. As stated by Moody's, a sharp drop in rankings due to the increasing risk that Portugal will have to re-apply for financial aid before he can return to the capital markets. Moody's also feared that Portugal would not be able to reduce the budget deficit to the required level. Furthermore, the pressure also had a message saying that the People's Bank of China increased from July 7 base rates on loans and deposits by 0.25 percentage points. Thus, the rate on loans in RMB for one year increased to 6.56%, the rate of annual deposits in yuan - up to 3.5%. This increase was the third for the current year. FTSE 100 Index - stock index, calculated Agency Financial Times based on rates of 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 of stock prices of the largest companies in Germany. CAC 40 - France's stock market index. Calculated as weighted average capitalization value stock prices of 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 March 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. [2011-07-07]