Attached please find the European Directors’ Dealings Report of the first quarter 2010 from Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics and 2iQ Research.
Buy/Sell Ratio Q1 2010 - With a Buy/Sell Ratio of 0.66, European insiders acted rather indifferent in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period of the previous year when the Buy/Sell Ratio was 1.68. Especially the buy volume was considerably lower, totalling 543 million euros in the first quarter of 2010. In Q1 2009, equity buys reached 1.1 billion euros. Values of 1.0 and higher mean a relative optimistic insider sentiment, while a ratio below 0.3 indicates that insiders have a rather pessimistic view.