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Russell Global ex-U.S. Small Cap Growth Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   1.266
Median market cap                   0.570
Largest stock by market cap                   7.297
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.026
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.76
Dividend yield                   4.38
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   14.8
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   19.21%
EPS growth 5 years                   29.0

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Global ex-U.S. Small Cap Growth   -4.82   -19.83   -20.05   11.20   18.40

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Eldorado Gold Corp.
Cookson Group PLC
Pan American Silver Corp.
Lojas Renner S/A
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co. Inc.
SINA Corp.
Icon PLC (ADS)
IG Group Holdings PLC
Pacific Basin Shipping Ltd.
Software AG
  Canada
United Kingdom
Canada
Brazil
Japan
China
Ireland
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Germany

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Speedel Holding AG
Detica Group PLC
BF Utilities Ltd.
Acambis PLC
Sterling International Enterprises Ltd.
Xantrex Technology Inc.
Jai Corp. Ltd.
SAS AB
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
Foschini Ltd.
  92.2
68.6
63.3
55.2
50.4
45.4
44.1
44.1
43.8
42.3
  Switzerland
United Kingdom
India
United Kingdom
India
Canada
India
Sweden
India
South Africa

Country data

Top 5 countries
Japan
Canada
United Kingdom
India
Australia

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Materials and Processing
Consumer Discretionary
Producer Durables
Energy
Technology
      Industrials
Consumer Discretionary
Materials
Information Technology
Financials








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