Market Overview

 
This week OMX Tallinn Index had a bit suprisingly a slight increase of 1,55%. The biggest winners of last week were Arco Vara (ARC1T) +12,50%, Tallink Grupp (TAL1T) +12,12% and Trigon Property Development (TBD1T) +11,54%. Among losers we find Olympic Entertainment Group (OEG1T) -20,41% and Viisnurk (VSN1T) -18,48%.
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Various unexpected news led the markets to fluctuate during the week. The greater part of countries ETFs have improved during the week, with an average of 2.84%, while commodities ETFs ended this week with 4.7 %. Moreover, the ‘world stocks’ index - MSCI World - has increased by 4.36 %. Investors around the world were waiting for an approval of financial aid equal to 15 billion dollars to U.S. car manufacturers. On Thursday various support agreement was reached, however, on Friday U.S. Senate rejected the automobile manufacturers rescue plan. The bankruptcy of car manufacturers such as General Motors or Chrysler would worsen the longest recession since the early 1980s. U.S. employers in November cut 533 thousand jobs, the fastest pace in 34 years. What is more, Germany suffers from falling factory orders, which has felt by 2.1 %. Moreover, British house sales have reached 30 year low. Furthermore, China’s exports fell by 2.2 percent, it was the first fall since 2001.
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The Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) closed the week, increasing by +8.41% compared to the last week, and reaching the closing value of 61.43EUR. The index rose from Monday until Wednesday, but the things changed on Thursday and Friday, when the index dropped by -1.6% and -2.66% respectively. There have been 28 winners and 2 losers, therefore it is logical to assume that most of the companies‘ share prices experienced a rather successful week as opposed to the previous week. The top gainer of the week was Lundin Petroleum (LUPE), whose share price rose by +28.53%, or by +0.88EUR, and reached the closing price of 3.98EUR per share. Vostok Gas (VGAS SDB), another energy sector company, placed second with +23.70%, closing price 7.77EUR. Skanska B (SKA B) ended up being the third biggest gainer of the week with +20.78%, or +1.12EUR, closing price 6.49EUR per share. The two losers were AstraZeneca (AZN), whose share price dropped by -0.48%, or by -0.14EUR, and closed at 29.14EUR per share; and Swedish Match (SWMA), with -2.95%, closing price 10.71EUR per share. The overall turnover of the week was 21,125,160EUR. Insterestingly enough, the daily turnover on Tuesday was 14,226,451, which might have indicated a panic among investors.
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During this week traders had to keep their both eyes open, because MIXEC index was reasonably fluctuating, having its peak of 632.27, after which plummeted and reached a bottom of 593.47. In a result index closed in a value of 620.73 and in total went up by approximately 4%. The week’s leaders were LUKOIL (LKOH) with an increase by 12% and Severstal (CHMF) which rose by 20.14%. The biggest losers were Novatek (NOTK) with a waist by 19% and Pipe Metallurgical Company JSC (TRMK) that lost 16% of its value.

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As the temperatures outside are getting lower and lower, so are most of the stock values at Riga Stock Exchange (RSE). Another week has passed and for another week the OMX Riga (OMXR) index has experienced a fall; this week it was by 13.75 points, or 4.91%. On the contrary, the OMX Baltic Benchmark GI (OMXBBGI) index increased by 0.32%. The total turnover of main list was 84,141.85 EUR, which is a decrease of 1.79%. The amount of deals decreased by 29 in comparison to the first week of December and ended up at 216. There was only one company, whose stock value rose during the week, and it was SAF Tehnika (SAF1R). All other companies on the main list - Grindeks (GRD1R), Latvijas Kuģniecība (LSC1R), Ventspils Nafta (VNF1R) and Olainfarm (OLF1R) - had to face a decline.
 
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Although the Christmas is coming, the investors feel that a red-dressed Grinch has stepped into OMXV market and is willing to steal the Christmas joy. The market finished the week with a decrease of 1.31 percent to 170.46 points. The investor’s actions were highly influenced by the world news. The most destroying this week was that the USA Senate rejected the 14 billions of USD car manufacturers saving plan. After the announcement, the stock markets worldwide were heading the same direction – down down. So the total Grinch’s performance during the week caused a plummeting of 3.51 percent. Although during the week there were 2,769,415.49 EUR put into action, only some of them brought positive profits. 
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The OMX Helsinki 25 Index (OMXH25) rose by 5.55 per cent in the trading week ending December 12, underperforming most European equity indices such as the FTSE 100 and S&P Europe 350. The week passed under fears of recession. On the one hand, many major companies—such as UPM-Kymmene and Fiskars—cut their earnings forecasts and announced further layoffs; additionally, news spread that the amount of new orders for Finnish manufacturers had fallen by 18 per cent in October. However, it was also announced that the Finnish trade surplus had increased by 600 million Euros, even as China shocked the world with an enormous fall in production and trade. The biggest gainers this week were Nokia (NOK1V) and Outokumpu (OUT1V). Some companies also fell: most notably UPM-Kymmene (UPM1V) and Nokian Renkaat (NRE1V).
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The OMX Helsinki 25 Index (OMXH25) ended the week with a 2.81 per cent loss in value. The share price was very volatile and experienced fluctuations with a magnitude of up to 12.5 per cent. It moved, for most of the week, in accord with other European equity indices, and only on Friday did it underperform them slightly. News from the Finnish economy were not encouraging, as Philips and NSG announced layoffs and as Nokia lowered its future profit outlook for the second time in three weeks.The best-performing company this week was Ramirent (RAMR1V), and it was one of the very few who managed to increase in value this week. The biggest losers were Fortum (FUM1V) and Sanoma (SAA1V).
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Once more OMX Vilnius stock market put on red. By decreasing from 187,49 to 176,66 points the week ended with -5.78%. During the week there were 5.704 transactions worth approximately 5 mln LTL made. Although even 14 companies experienced positive results, yet another 22 showed negative movements. “Market engines paused again, ” – state Lithuanian economists.
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The Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) ended the week with an overall decrease of -5.16%, or -3.12EUR and a closing value of 57.39EUR per share. After a decrease of -5.39% on Monday, the index rose during the rest of the week except Friday, when the value dropped by -4.95%. In contrast to the previous surprisingly successful week for all companies, only 2 shares rose, whereas 28 companies experienced a drop in their shares. The two winners of the week were AstraZeneca (AZN), whose price per share increased by +4.49%, or by 1.27EUR and reached the closing price per share of 29.66EUR; and Ericsson B (ERIC B), with +0.35% and closing price 5.45EUR. The top losers of the week were Swedbank A (SWED A), whose price per share dropped by -25.89%, or went down from 5.45EUR by -1.41EUR to 4.04EUR; SEB A (SEB A) with a decrease of -25.00% and closing price of 4.81EUR, as well as many other companies.
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