MICEX (Moscow)
Year: 2008, Week: 3
Russian Stock Market Overview
Provided with extremely negative inflow of negative external information, RTS index plummeted by 6,69% this week, with -4,52% collapse only on Wednesday, therefore, flashing back to value of 2159,10 which it had in mid-November. The only appropriate explanation of such a significant decrease can be found in the figures that came out this week in the USA, and signaled that the world’s leading country might be facing a recession.

HEX (Helsinki)
Year: 2008, Week: 3
Finnish Stock Market Overview
This week was not very different for OMXH25 from the previous week. The index dropped by 3.68% and closed with value of 2635.67. There were only 2 rises versus 23 falls in OMXH25 main list. The biggest winners of this week are Uponor Oyj (UNR1V) and Nokian Renkaat Oyj (NRE1V), while the biggest losers are Mesto Oyj(MEO1V) and Outotec Oyj (OTE1V).

RSE (Riga)
Year: 2008, Week: 3
Latvian Stock Market Overview
This week in Riga Stock Exchange has been more active than previous one. Only in main list number of deals increased from 290 last week to 461 deals this week, with turnovers of 265.3 thousand and 914.1 thousand respectively. Also once again it was verified that previous growth does not secure growth also in the future. Despite last week being so promising (no losers in the main list), this week turned out to bring only one raise and five losses.

VSE (Vilnius)
Year: 2008, Week: 3
Lithuanian Stock Market Overview
Vilnius Stock Exchange experienced another bearish week, pushing down the OMX Vilnius index to 483.90 – a drop of 5.81% to the level at which the market was 8 months ago. It seems that the Baltics are simply following the general trends of markets worldwide, thus one should observe the latter in order to make a prediction for the direction to which VSE will turn. While the week started very pessimistically, Thursday and Friday showed a slowdown of the recession, giving the investors a hope that the bottom has been reached.

SSE (Stockholm)
Year: 2008, Week: 3
Swedish Stock Market Overview
This week OMX Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) decreased by 2.2% with 10 stock prices going up and 20 of them going down. The major winners were LM Ericsson Telefon AB (ERIC B), Skanska AB (SKA B) and Atlas Copco AB (ATCO B), while Svenska Handelsbanken (SHB B), Assa Abloy AB (ASSA B) and Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA B) experienced the biggest losses of the week.