Market Overviews
RTS (Moscow)Year: 2011, Week: 17
Russian Stock Market Overview
Week 17 was very volatile and changeable for Russian Stock Market (RTS). The week started with a dramatic increase in RTSI on Monday morning which was followed with important drop in the afternoon. During the week RTS index was very unstable and was fluctuating significantly closing the week with 2033.26 points, what is a decrease of 0.77% comparing with the previous week. Negative tendency of RTSI could be partly explained by regulations in law concerning exports of gasoline. All RTS indexes showed different tendency this week, some of them faced an increase and of course some of them had a drop. Telecommunication industry experienced the biggest growth this week while electro energetics industry suffered the main decline, gaining 1.72% and losing 1.44% respectively. The only company which showed a positive tendency this week was Polyus Gold (PLZLS) which share prices had an enormous growth of 9.70%. All the remaining companies suffered losses and the biggest looser this week was Tatneft (TATNS) with 7.04% drop.
HEL (Helsinki)
Year: 2011, Week: 13
Helsinki Stock Market Overview
The Week 13 continues the positive tendencies in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Over this week the OMX Helsinki 25 (OMXH25) has increased by 1.61%, resulting in a closing value of 2659. Similarly like in the last week, that is the highest value of the week of the OMXH25. There was a remarkable decrease (0.45%) in the OMXH25 value on Thursday.
Overall tendencies are highly affected by the Finland parliamentary election that is going to be held on April 17. The Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions published a survey on Wednesday, according to which over half of its members were ready to stage walkouts. It shows that Finnish willingness to go on strike has remained high. One of the main reasons for such strikes is Government reforms to social security, which would be disadvantageous to the workers. At least 2,000 Finnish employees of Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera launched a five-day strike on Wednesday.
This week’s winners are Stora Enso R (STERV) and UPM-Kymmene OYJ (UPM1V), who had a gain of 7.2% and 6% respectively. The worst performers are Metso Oyj and Orion Oyj.
RIG (Riga)
Year: 2011, Week: 13
Latvian Stock Market Overview
Week 13 in NASDAQ OMX Riga was more intensive in the middle of the week, thus the overall changes accumulated in 1.34% increased OMXR index. At the end of the last week the closing value of OMX Riga index was 412.18 points and this Friday it closed at 417.71 points. The biggest winner of the week was the leader of the week 12 as well - SAF Tehnika (SAF1R) with 7.11% gain, followed by Latvijas Balzams (BAL1R) with 3.64% rise in stock price. Whereas the biggest losses were in Valmieras stikla šķiedra (VSS1R) with 2.34% fall in share value and Latvijas Tilti (LTT1R) with 4.35% stock price decrease this week. The total turnover of the Latvian Stock Market was 197 174.61 EUR.
TLN (Tallinn)
Year: 2011, Week: 17
Estonian Stock Market Overview
The 17th week was shorter for exchange stock markets than usually due to Easter Monday i.e. NASDAQ OMX Tallinn (OMXT) was opened for four days. Notwithstanding the shorter period for trading market participants were very active and large deals dominated, especially in Tallink Grupp (TAL1T) which took as much as 70% of total turnover during the week. During 17th week NASDAQ OMX Tallinn (OMXT) experienced gain of 0.37 %. After fall in previous week, OMXT ended up with closing value of 696.51 throughout 17th week (the opening value of index was 693.95). Overall, 913 deals were made and 4,575,592 shares changed its owners which resulted in turnover of 4,315,088.41 EUR.
The biggest gainers of the week were Tallinna Kaubamaja (TKM1T) and Viisnurk (VSN1T) with increases of 3.17 % and 1.66 % correspondingly. The rest of the companies (except Tallinna Vesi (TVEAT)) have experienced considerable decreases with the leaders Trigon Development Property (TDP1T) and Baltika (BLT1T) which shrunk by 13.41% and 7.6% respectively.
VLN (Vilnius)
Year: 2011, Week: 15
Lithuanian Stock Market Overview
Week 15 in Vilnius Stock Market was more active, however, negative moods remained. OMX Vilnius index continued decreasing and managed to drop by 1% from 391.25 to 387.35 points per week. The total turnover during the week reached 2 076 077.65 EUR and it was larger by 36% than it was the previous week. Throughout the week total of 10 stocks increased, 19 declined and 9 have not changed their price. The biggest winner this week was Šiaulių bankas (SAB1L) with 3.54% gain, followed by Agrowill Group (AVG1L) increase of 2.43% and Sanitas (SAN1L) with 1.92% gain. The biggest turnover in week 15 was reached by TEO LT (TEO1L) - 412,878.13 EUR. However, its stock price decreased by 1.60% and it was one of the main reflections of the whole week in Vilnius Stock Market. The biggest negative gain in stock prices had Stumbras (STU1L). It managed to drop by 11.94%. It was followed by Lesto (LES1L) and Snaigė (SNG1L) which declined by 5.37% and 3.12% respectively.
STO (Stockholm)
Year: 2011, Week: 13
Swedish Stock Market Overview
It was rather unstable week for OMX Stockholm 30. Even though the index increased by 1.54% and stopped at 1146.70 points, there were huge fluctuations this week. IT and R&D service group company Tieto Oyj and clothing company Hennes&Mauritz B were the biggest losers this week with -4.53% and -3.48% respectively. The biggest gains were made by Lundin Mining Corporation SDB +10.39% and Stora Enso R +8.37%.The total turnover was about 11 billion EUR this week.
By observing last week’s graph of OMX Stockholm 30, we can see that there were sufficient changes every day. While increasing on Monday, OMX Stockholm 30 indexexperienced slight decrease on Tuesday which could be caused due to the news about Fukushima’s situation in Japan. 0.65% increase followed on Wednesday, however already on the next day there were slight loss. Nevertheless, Friday was the most successful day for OMX Stockholm 30 index, as there was 0.95% increase, which could be caused after announcement of the statement that Norway seeks mandate to sell SAS stake and they have no impact on Sweden’s stance.
BATS (New York)
Year: 2011, Week: 17
USA Stock Market Overview
Week 17 showed strong and relatively steady growth. NYSE composite index (NYA) and S&P 500 index (GSPC) showed a 1.96% growth, while Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) has showed even bigger increase of 2.44%.
During week 17 trading volume in NYSE was 17,617,650,000 USD, that is on average 3,534,148,333 USD per day. Such value do not significantly differ from the indicators that turned up in the last couple of weeks.
The best performer of the week 17 was NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) with a 7.99% increase in share price. Second best winner of the week was Intel Corporation (INTC) with 7.88% rise in market value. It must be said that Intel Corporation is among the biggest winners for the second week in a row. The biggest looser of the week was Broadcom Corporation (BRCM),which has lost sizeable 12.90% of its stock price. Research In Motion Limited (RIMM) was the second worst performing company, having demonstrated a 9.52% decline in its stock value.
NYA index during the week has risen from 8,504.36 points in the beginning of the week to 8671.41 at the end of week. Overall growth was steady, although during Monday (25 April) and Wednesday (27 April) some fluctuations took place, though not changing general growth tendency. Both in S&P 500 (GSPC) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) indices identical movements were observed with minimal variations.
BATS (London)
Year: 2011, Week: 17
UK Stock Market Overview
This was a positive week for London Stock Exchange. The FTSE 100 index increased by 1,59%, from 6,018.30 to 6,070 points. The biggest gainers this week were Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.L) with +5,94% and Aviva PLC (AV.L) with +5,67%. Shares which lost the most of their value were Barclays PLC (BARC.L) with -4,30% and Vodafone Group PLC (VOD.L) with-3,03%.
BATS (Frankfurt)
Year: 2011, Week: 17
German Stock Market Overview
Week 17, which was shorter due to Easter holidays, has brought constant positive trendsto the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.The DAX indexincreasedevery day;the biggest growth was observed on Thursday, while Friday’s closing value of 7,514 is the highest that has been reached this week. Overall, the DAX index value increased by 2.97% over the week 17.Such trends can be observed in other stock exchanges as well; however, DAX remains one of the most successfully performing indexes.
On Thursday it was published that German unemployment has fallen below 3 million (7.3 percent) for the first time in almost 19 years in April in adjusted terms, increasing the likelihood that household spending will boost economic growth. This fact supports the good state of German economy, similarly like the other statistical data that has been published during previous weeks.
The winners of week 17 are Volkswagen AG (VOW) with a gain of 11.95% and Porsche Automobil Holding SE (PAH3)with a gain of 10.15%. This week was not so fortunate forSAP AG (SAP.DE) and Commerzbank AG (CBK.DE),which are the biggest losers with a decline of 4.37% and 2.49% respectively.
ETFs (US)
Year: 2009, Week: 6
International and Commodities ETFs’ Markets Overview
