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Russell Emerging Asia Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of July 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   40.074
Median market cap                   0.694
Largest stock by market cap                   388.437
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.060
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   2.02
Dividend yield                   2.67
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   12.9
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   16.90%
EPS growth 5 years                   25.7

Total returns in percentages

     July        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Emerging Asia   -0.67   -24.06   -15.64   17.46   21.36   12.37

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
China Mobile Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd.
POSCO
Reliance Industries Ltd.
China Construction Bank Corp.
Industrial & Commercial Bank of China
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.
PetroChina Co. Ltd.
China Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (China) H
  China
Korea
Taiwan
Korea
India
China
China
Taiwan
China
China


Top 10 performers   Return   Country
BF Utilities Ltd.
Reliance Natural Resources Ltd.
Sterling International Enterprises Ltd.
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
Reliance Capital Ltd.
Jai Corp. Ltd.
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
Siemens India Ltd.
BGR Energy Systems Ltd.
Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.
  63.3
53.3
50.4
48.1
45.7
44.1
43.8
43.3
42.3
41.1
  India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India
India

Country data

Top 5 countries
China
Korea
Taiwan
India
Malaysia

Sectors — Largest five by weight

Russell method       GICS method
Financial Services
Materials and Processing
Technology
Utilities
Producer Durables
      Financials
Information Technology
Industrials
Materials
Energy






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