Tuesday, 26 January, the major stock markets in the European region with a few exceptions, still managed to complete the session in positive territory. First half trading was characterized by a downward trend - investors were crushed by the Chinese government”s decision to restrict lending, as well as the actions of Bank of China and China Construction Bank, which first began to reduce lending. However, investor sentiment has changed dramatically after it became known that the index of consumer confidence in the U.S. rose in January from 52.9 points to 55.9 points, while analysts had expected growth to 53.9 points.

Additional support index was macroeconomic statistics within the region. Preliminary GDP in Britain rose in the fourth quarter on 0,1%, and the IFO index of business optimism in Germany rose in January to 95.8 points from 95.1 points expected by analysts.

As a result of trading a key index of the UK FTSE 100 has become harder to 0,31%, French CAC 40 index gained strength at 0.67%, while the German DAX closed in positive territory as the 0,67%. Regional index Dow Stoxx 600 advanced a 0.4% and closed at a level of 249.28 points. The overall upward trend is not only supported the markets of Austria and Scandinavia.

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis reported on a 4% increase in profits nom-up activities in 2009, which reached $ 8,5 billion Thus, the net profit in the fourth quarter jumped 54%. In addition, today it became known that Novartis CEO Mr. Daniel Vasella (Daniel Vasella) will leave his post Feb. 1, but would take his place, Joe Jimenez (Joe Jimenez), who is currently head of the pharmaceutical division. As a result, shares of Novartis added to their asset 2,06%.

Papers of Siemens, Europe”s largest engineering company, “recovered” at 5.14% after it said that net profit in the fourth quarter rose to a maximum over the past two years the size and reach 1.48 billion euros. Operating profit, at the same time, was higher by 11% and amounted to 2.26 billion euros ($ 3.2 billion), surpassing analysts” forecasts of 1.82 billion euros.

A leading European manufacturer of semiconductors STMicroelectronics added to the auction 2,02% of the market capitalization on the background of positive statements of U.S. chip maker Texas Instruments.

Shares of Italian automaker Fiat left in a minus on 0,79%. According to the CEO of the company, the car market of Western Europe narrowed to the current year by 12%, which can lead to delays in launching several new models of Fiat.

Due to cheaper metals at the auctions in London quotes BHP Billiton, Antofagasta, Rio Tinto Group and Xstrata fell to 0,97%, 0,59%, 1,09% and 1,68% respectively.

Values of the basic indexes on closing are resulted in the table:

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