Stock indexes in Central and Eastern Europe performed very well during the past week in unison with US markets.

The Bulgarian blue chips index SOFIX, although not among the top performers in the region, ended the week with a 3.85% gain, which cut its year-to-date loss to 17.6%.

The top gainer for the period is the Ukrainian PFTS, which added 10.7% and reduced its year-to-date loss to 17.9%.

The Russian MICEX continues to be the best overall performer in the region with a 35.3% gain for the period. It is the main reason for the advance of the Morgan Stanley index which follows local stock markets - it added 9.4% in Jan-April this year.

Romanian indexes continue to outperform the Bulgarian ones. BET rose 6.4% last week and its year-to-date loss is just 11%.

At the bottom of the chart is the Serbian Belex 15 which fell 31% in the first four months of the year.