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Russell Europe Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of August 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   61.255
Median market cap                   1.090
Largest stock by market cap                   232.992
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.003
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.74
Dividend yield                   3.89
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   10.7
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   9.06%
EPS growth 5 years                   26.0

Total returns in percentages

     August        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Europe   -4.42   -18.41   -14.94   9.86   16.22   7.07

For daily total return details for all Russell indexes, view this page.

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
HSBC Holdings PLC
BP PLC
Nestle S.A.
Total S.A.
Vodafone Group PLC
Novartis AG
GlaxoSmithKline PLC
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Cl A)
Roche Holding AG
E.ON AG
  United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Switzerland
France
United Kingdom
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Germany


Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Protherics PLC
Barratt Developments PLC
Yell Group PLC
Austrian Airlines AG
Capital & Regional PLC
Belvedere S.A.
Norske Skogindustrier ASA
SEAT Pagine Gialle SpA
Telecom Italia Media SpA
Zeltia S.A.
  50.3
42.5
41.7
38.9
37.0
34.8
34.7
34.2
33.3
33.0
  United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Austria
United Kingdom
France
Norway
Italy
Italy
Spain

Country data

Top 5 countries
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Switzerland
Spain

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Financial Services
Energy
Materials and Processing
Utilities
Consumer Discretionary
      Financials
Energy
Industrials
Materials
Consumer Staples








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