Market Overviews
RTS (Moscow)Year: 2008, Week: 5
Russian Stock Market Overview
This week RTS index continued its bearish trend and dropped by 3,15% ; however, not so significantly as in previous weeks. The value it closed on Friday is 1968, 97. Basically, the index was fluctuating around the value of 2000, showing very volatile movements in different directions, with stronger bias to go down. There was controversial information, coming out this week and bringing even more uncertainty to the market.
HEX (Helsinki)
Year: 2008, Week: 5
Finnish Stock Market Overview
The index of the Helsinki stock market (OMH25) this week reached 2777.95, which is a decrease of 0.96% comparing with the previous week. Even though the results of this week are almost neutral, due to bearish trends around the globe the Year-To-Date result of the index is very poor: it decreased by 10.20%. Of 25 stocks, 11 showed positive week results after the closing on Friday while 14 fell down. The winners of the week were Konecranes (KCR1V), Outokumpu Oyj (OUT1V), and UPM-Kymmene Oyj (UMP1V) – these securities gained over 3% in value.
RSE (Riga)
Year: 2008, Week: 5
Latvian Stock Market Overview
This week the Riga Stock exchange market experienced decrease; the OMX Riga index turned out negative -3.37%. The number of deals decreased by -34%, it declined form 517 deals in the last week to 341 deals in this week. Also the total turnover in this week decreased from 3941729.83EUR in the previous week to 1523848.84EUR. So the decrease in turnover of the main list was -158.67%. However, there were 4 losses and 2 raises in the main list. This week SAF Tehnika (SAF1R) surprisingly was the winner of the week; it faced a stock value rise by +13.84 % and reached the price of 1.62 EUR at the end of the week.
TSE (Tallinn)
Year: 2008, Week: 5
Estonian Stock Market Overview
As the world trend has not gone up recently, Tallinn Stock Exchange Market was not the exception and its index decreased by 1.66% from 641.62 to 630.95 EUR. During the last 3 months there was a drop of 23% in total. Such numbers might scare away quite many investors since there is no news concerning good times coming soon. This week 9 companies showed negative results while 6 firms performed positively and 3 remained stable. The biggest winners were Silvano Fashion Group (SFGAT), Trigon Property Development (TPD1T) and Harju Elekter (HAE1T) with 9.86%, 7.53% and 6.90% respectively.
VSE (Vilnius)
Year: 2008, Week: 5
Lithuanian Stock Market Overview
Unlike Tallinn and Riga stock markets, this week Vilnius Stock Exchange was moving in a somewhat positive direction, as the OMX Vilnius index finally, after a month of extreme decline, leveled off and recorded a slight increase of 0.21% to 463.26 points. However, the grand total weekly turnover of only 8,131,379 EUR signals that there is little activity in the market, suggesting that the majority of participants in the market are small, rather than institutional investors, as the latter have retreated during January’s decline, while the former are now starting to come back, carefully searching for the bottom.
SSE (Stockholm)
Year: 2008, Week: 5
Swedish Stock Market Overview
As the recession in the world stock exchange markets is continuing, Stockholm is not an exception. This week the OMX Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) decreased by 1.32%, with 11 share prices having increased and 19 decreased. The major losers were SEB Group (SEB A), Volvo AB (VOLV B) and AstraZeneca AB (AZN). However, some of the companies had quite a successful week, as the share prices of Svenska Cellulosa AB (SCA B), SKF AB (SKF B) and Electrolux AB (ELUX B) increased quite a lot.
