Stock indices of emerging markets by results of August 18, 2011

/IRBIS, August 19, 2011/ -Following the results of the auctions on August 18, 2011, values of indexes of share platforms of developing countries (Emerging Markets) have made: ------------------------------------------------------- Change (in %) for ------------------------ beginning Hist. August 18 1 day* 1 month of 2011 maximum** ---------- --------- ------ ------- --------- --------- BSE Sensex 16,469.79 -2.20 -11.01 -19.90 20,893.57 Bovespa 53,134.10 -3.52 -9.69 -24.05 73,516.82 MICEX 1,452.83 -3.73 -13.91 -15.24 1,969.91 PFTS 685.30 -4.05 -22.86 -30.62 1,208.61 MerVal 2,870.49 -4.12 -12.87 -20.89 3,664.82 RTS 1,584.20 -4.79 -16.81 -12.10 2,487.92 MSCI EM 995.44 -2.83 -11.31 -14.44 1,338.49 KASE 1,269.64 -0.66 -17.11 -25.38 2,876.17 ------------------------------------------------------- * rows sorted in descending order a day ** historic maximum for the whole history of index calculation Indices of stock markets in developing countries, on Thursday closed the day with significant reduction on negative news from the U.S. Recall, as reported by the National Association of Realtors, sales of second-hand homes in the U.S. in July 2011 decreased by 3.5% compared with June and amounted to 4.67 million trades. Analysts had expected growth rate of 2.7%. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of initial claims for unemployment benefits for the week ended August 12 increased by 9 thousand to 408 thousand, which also turned out worse than expected (expected to increase rate of 5 million). Inflation in the U.S. in July 2011 was 0.5% compared to June, year on year - 3.6%. Analysts had forecast that inflation would rise over the month by 0.2% and 3.3% - in annualized. Furthermore, the pressure also had reports that U.S. regulators because of the deteriorating debt problems of the EU countries conduct inspections of the European banks in the U.S. In particular, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York more carefully analyze the American branch of the largest banks in Europe, fearing that the debt crisis may spread from the eurozone banking system to the United States. To this end, the regulator is conducting additional meetings with their supervisors for more general information about the level of capitalization of banks and their reliability. Bovespa (IBOV Index) - the index of 50 stocks that are traded on the stock, commodity and futures exchanges in Sao Paulo, The index is calculated on the basis of changes in the theoretical portfolio of shares, Constituting 80% of the total trade over the past 12 months and at least 80% of the volume of trades of the day, BSE Sensex - the index based on a weighted average of the 30 most liquid stocks listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), MERVAL Index - main index of the Buenos Aires stock market, calculated as the weighted average market value of a stock portfolio, selected according to their market share, number of transactions and value, PFTS Index - the index is calculated daily on the results of bidding Ukrainian PFTS stock exchange on the basis of weighted average price of transactions, The "index basket includes the most liquid stocks, which performed the greatest number of transactions, MICEX Ind - main index of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, including the 30 most liquid stocks of Russian issuers, RTSI - Russia's stock market index Stock Exchange RTS, Calculated on the basis of 50 securities of most capitalized Russian companies, MSCI EM - a composite index of stock market capitalization of emerging markets areas, Since May 2005, includes the index values 26 developing countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey and Venezuela, KASE Index - the index of the market shares of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, a representative list of KASE index includes 7 shares, [2011-08-19]