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News Flash

Index Launch RTX Sector Indices

Admission to Trading of KBC Securities N.V., Brussels (Belgium)

Increase in the number of shares: voestalpine AG

ATX watchlist for March 2009

ATX Performance in March 2009

Specialist and market maker performance

Monthly statistic

Top-performers

Service/Editorial information

> Erste Group expects stock markets to stabilize - The investment experts at Erste Group expect prices to stabilize again on international stock markets for the first time since 4Q 2007. The crisis is not yet over though was the warning sent out by Chief Analyst Friedrich Mostböck at the presentation of the latest financial market forecasts for 2Q 2009. The willingness to invest in stocks has increased again. Factors that speak against stock investments are the still prevailing global crisis of confidence and the real economy that is ailing under the crisis. (APA, 1 April 2009)

> Vienna Stock Exchange achieves transaction volume of EUR 164.4bn in 2008 – The Vienna Stock Exchange reported 12.5m securities transactions with a volume of EUR 164.4bn in 2008. The number of transactions increased by 10.9% versus 2007 according to the clearing house, Abwicklungsstelle für Börsengeschäfte CCP.A. In 2009, three new clearing members were connected. Apart from classical clearing services, it is possible to take part in the clearing system via clearing agents. This option is used mainly by international participants that profit from the know-how of active members. (APA, 3 April 2009)

> ECB lowers key lending rate to 1.25%  – The European Central Bank lowered the key lending rate on 2 April by 0.25 points to 1.25%. However, "it is not the lowest limit" said ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet: "I do not exclude that we could in a very measured way go down from the present level." The ECB Governing Council will report on non-standard measures such as the purchase of bonds at its next meeting at the beginning of May.
(APA, 3 April 2009)

Since March 31, 2009, Wiener Börse calculates four new RTX sector indices. The Russian sector indices are capitalization-weighted price indices and are made up of the most liquid and highest capitalized stocks of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), which are classified under the sectors Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining & Metals and Telecommunications. The indices are calculated in RUB (Russian Rouble), EUR and USD. They are disseminated in real-time by Wiener Börse AG and are designed as tradable indices to be used as underlying for standardized derivatives (futures & options) and for structured products.

[» Overview index profiles]

The Management Board of the exchange operating company, Wiener Börse AG, passed the resolution on 9 March 2009 to admit the exchange member Nomura International plc. in its function as a securities exchange under the concept of the free movement of services effective as of 16 March 2009.

[Details]

As of Tuesday, March 31, 2009, an increase in the number of shares of voestalpine AG is effective.
 

Name	voestalpine AG
New number of shares	167,899,032
Old number of shares	164,599,032
ISIN	AT0000937503
Short Code	VOE

[» Price information]

The watchlist is used as a basis for the admission and/or deletion of ATX stocks at the semiannual (March and September) reviews of ATX basket.

• ATX watchlist March 2009 (PDF-File 22 KB)

The ATX closed at 1,696.62 points on 31 March, 2009, which is a loss of 3.10% over year-end 2008 (1,750.83 points). The monthly high was 1,730.83 points (26 March, 2009), the monthly low was 1,411.95 points (9 March, 2009). The change against the previous month (1,481.67 points on 27 February, 2009) was + 14.51%.

The ATX Prime closed at 761.93 points on 31 March, 2009, which is a loss of 1.10% over year-end 2008 (770.40 points). The change against the previous month (669.60 points on 27 February, 2009) was - 13.79%.

A list of the average fulfilment rates of the specialist and market maker obligations for the month of March 2009 for the cash and derivatives market is available on the website of Wiener Börse AG, www.wienerborse.at

Monthly statistic for March 2009.

Price gains in the prime market. Securities with specialists in the XETRA^® trading system.
 

		31 Dec 2008-15 Apr 2009	31 Dec 2003-15 Apr 2009
1	IMMOEAST  AG	+ 219.57%	- 75.71%
2	IMMOFINANZ AG	+ 136.73%	- 81.37%
3	CONWERT IMMOBILIEN INVEST SE	+ 71.88%	- 51.81%
4	BWIN INT. ENTERT. AG	+ 67.82%	+ 188.00%
5	S&T SYSTEM INT.&TECH. DISTR. AG	+ 48.86%	+ 92.65%
6	SEMPERIT AG HOLDING	+ 45.51%	+ 28.42%

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