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On Thursday, August 6, the major stock markets of the European region have completed the session on the positive territory. A good stimulus for growth have been reporting KBC Group Aviva and better forecasts, as well as expectations for an increase in the cost of housing in the UK this year. According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, house prices in Britain will grow in 2009, which undoubtedly added optimism to investors, given the fact that, in accordance with the previous forecast was expected to decline by 15%.
Another positive aspect of today have become data on industrial orders in Germany. Thus, the June value of the indicator increased by 4.5% against the projected 0,8%.
Today the Bank of England left a key interest rate unchanged at 0.5% and announced an increase in purchases of securities from 125 to 175 billion pounds.
ECB's key rate was kept at a maintenance level of 1%, as expected. It should be noted that the chairman of the ECB statement, Mr. Zh.K. Trichet that the sustainability of recent signs of economic recovery is under a lot of doubt, judging by the results of the session, a little bit to hold the growth of the major indices.
As a result of bidding key UK FTSE 100 index rose 0.93%, French CAC 40 index added 0.56% and the German DAX rose 0.23%. The regional index Dow Stoxx 600 has become harder to 0.48% and closed at a level of 227.97 points.
The third-largest bank assets Belgian KBC Group added to its asset 20,4% thanks to record profits, which was a big surprise. Shares second on the market value of the insurance company Aviva in the UK went up by 5.36% after it reported a net profit in the first half of a $ 1.1 billion, exceeded the average forecast of analysts.
Quotations Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays rose na13, 2%, 11.4% and 5.54%, respectively, due to the Bank of England to expand the program to repurchase the securities at 50 billion pounds ($ 40 billion).
Paper Zurich Financial Services, the largest insurer in Switzerland, stronger at 1.2%. The company reported its confidence in achieving the medium-term goals of profit.
The second-largest reinsurance company in Germany, Hannover Re has earned at auction 6.22% of market capitalization, once said that profit in the second quarter increased almost twice, which was better than analysts' expectations.
Shares Unilever, the second largest worldwide producer of consumer goods, have become harder to 5.4% despite the fact that the profits of the company for the second quarter fell by 17%. The reason for the growth of Unilever has a message that the number of products in Western Europe increased by 1% against a projected target of reducing by 2%.
The largest company in the world of the water sector Veolia Environnement reported falling profits in the first half by 56% due to reduction in demand for treatment of industrial wastewater, which led to the depreciation of its securities to 5.85%.
The values of major indices at the closing are shown in the table:
| Index |
Country |
Closing (items) |
Change day (items) |
Changing the day (%) |
Change from the beginning of the year |
| ATX |
Austria |
2350,7 |
11,84 |
0,51% |
34,26% |
| BEL20 Index |
Belgium |
2226, 5 |
53,23 |
2,45% |
16,65% |
| FTSE 100 |
United Kingdom |
4547,53 |
18,69 |
0,41% |
2,56% |
| DAX Index |
Germany |
5365,11 |
12,1 |
0,23% |
11,54% |
| IBEX 35 INDEX |
Spain |
10776,00 |
71,6 |
0,67% |
17,18% |
| SP /MIB |
Italy |
21128,66 |
166,16 |
0,79% |
8,57% |
| AEX |
Netherlands |
288,11 |
2,87 |
1,01% |
17,15% |
| OMX Nordic 40 |
Scandinavia |
776,74 |
1,29 |
0,17% |
22,12% |
| CAC 40 |
France |
3477,83 |
19,3 |
0,56% |
8,08% |
| SMI |
Switzerland |
5968,08 |
56 17 |
0,95% |
7,83% |
The ECB left rates at 1%, as expected
Futures on the RTS index fell by at FORTS 1.67%
Shares of Russian companies traded mostly to better the dynamics of ADR on them, which could lead to sale
Apatite stop the supply of raw materials to the factory Resurrection of fertilizers
Ministry reduced the rental fee for crude oil in July at 5.1%
Economics Minister of Ukraine declares price collusion sugar factories
Cabinet approved the state of development of domestic market to 2012g
After a volatile trades Russian indexes closed differently, the greatest demand for oil and gas banking and securities sectors
Indicator RTS-2 to the end of the trading on Thursday demonstrated the importance of item 938.51
Europe: Markets ostorozhnichayut against the backdrop of Trichet speech
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On Thursday, August 6, the major stock markets of the European region have completed the session on the positive territory. A good stimulus for growth have been reporting KBC Group Aviva and better forecasts, as well as expectations for an increase in the cost of housing in the UK this year. According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, house prices in Britain will grow in 2009, which undoubtedly added optimism to investors, given the fact that, in accordance with the previous forecast was expected to decline by 15%.
Another positive aspect of today have become data on industrial orders in Germany. Thus, the June value of the indicator increased by 4.5% against the projected 0,8%.
Today the Bank of England left a key interest rate unchanged at 0.5% and announced an increase in purchases of securities from 125 to 175 billion pounds.
ECB's key rate was kept at a maintenance level of 1%, as expected. It should be noted that the chairman of the ECB statement, Mr. Zh.K. Trichet that the sustainability of recent signs of economic recovery is under a lot of doubt, judging by the results of the session, a little bit to hold the growth of the major indices.
As a result of bidding key UK FTSE 100 index rose 0.93%, French CAC 40 index added 0.56% and the German DAX rose 0.23%. The regional index Dow Stoxx 600 has become harder to 0.48% and closed at a level of 227.97 points.
The third-largest bank assets Belgian KBC Group added to its asset 20,4% thanks to record profits, which was a big surprise. Shares second on the market value of the insurance company Aviva in the UK went up by 5.36% after it reported a net profit in the first half of a $ 1.1 billion, exceeded the average forecast of analysts.
Quotations Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays rose na13, 2%, 11.4% and 5.54%, respectively, due to the Bank of England to expand the program to repurchase the securities at 50 billion pounds ($ 40 billion).
Paper Zurich Financial Services, the largest insurer in Switzerland, stronger at 1.2%. The company reported its confidence in achieving the medium-term goals of profit.
The second-largest reinsurance company in Germany, Hannover Re has earned at auction 6.22% of market capitalization, once said that profit in the second quarter increased almost twice, which was better than analysts' expectations.
Shares Unilever, the second largest worldwide producer of consumer goods, have become harder to 5.4% despite the fact that the profits of the company for the second quarter fell by 17%. The reason for the growth of Unilever has a message that the number of products in Western Europe increased by 1% against a projected target of reducing by 2%.
The largest company in the world of the water sector Veolia Environnement reported falling profits in the first half by 56% due to reduction in demand for treatment of industrial wastewater, which led to the depreciation of its securities to 5.85%.
The values of major indices at the closing are shown in the table:
The ECB left rates at 1%, as expected
Futures on the RTS index fell by at FORTS 1.67%
Shares of Russian companies traded mostly to better the dynamics of ADR on them, which could lead to sale
Apatite stop the supply of raw materials to the factory Resurrection of fertilizers
Ministry reduced the rental fee for crude oil in July at 5.1%
Economics Minister of Ukraine declares price collusion sugar factories
Cabinet approved the state of development of domestic market to 2012g
After a volatile trades Russian indexes closed differently, the greatest demand for oil and gas banking and securities sectors
Indicator RTS-2 to the end of the trading on Thursday demonstrated the importance of item 938.51