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Russell Asia Pacific Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of October 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   21.849
Median market cap                   0.379
Largest stock by market cap                   261.732
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.009
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.11
Dividend yield                   3.83
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   9.3
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   8.54%
EPS growth 5 years                   22.5

Total returns in percentages

     October        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Asia Pacific   -20.48   -45.93   -49.85   -5.99   2.66   4.03

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Toyota Motor Corp.
BHP Billiton Ltd.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
China Mobile Ltd.
Canon Inc.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd.
  Japan
Australia
Japan
Korea
China
Japan
Japan
Australia
Japan
Taiwan

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Prima Meat Packers Ltd.
Sanshin Electronics Co. Ltd.
Shikoku Bank Ltd.
Takihyo Co. Ltd.
Saizeriya Co. Ltd.
Tokushu Tokai Holdings Co. Ltd.
kabu.com Securities Co. Ltd.
Sosei Group Corp.
Seiwa Chuo Holdings Corporation
Nomura Co. Ltd.
  61.0
58.4
44.4
42.4
37.8
37.7
37.4
36.8
36.7
33.6
  Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan

Country data

Top 5 countries
Japan
Australia
China
Korea
Taiwan

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Financial Services
Producer Durables
Consumer Discretionary
Materials & Processing
Utilities
      Financials
Industrials
Information Technology
Consumer Discretionary
Materials






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