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Russell Euro Zone Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of August 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   51.099
Median market cap                   1.257
Largest stock by market cap                   173.325
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.098
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.59
Dividend yield                   4.17
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   10.4
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   7.77%
EPS growth 5 years                   25.7

Total returns in percentages

     August        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr       10 yr  
Russell Euro Zone   -4.36   -19.57   -14.24   11.53   17.23   7.64

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

Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Siemens AG
Nokia Corp.
BNP Paribas S.A.
Allianz SE
Sanofi-Aventis S.A.
GDF-Suez
Total S.A.
E.ON AG
Banco Santander S.A. (Spain)
Telefonica S.A.
  Germany
Finland
France
Germany
France
France
France
Germany
Spain
Spain

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Austrian Airlines AG
Belvedere S.A.
SEAT Pagine Gialle SpA
Telecom Italia Media SpA
Zeltia S.A.
Wirecard AG
Digital Multimedia Technologies S.p.A
Cegedim S.A.
Pfleiderer AG
AWD Holding AG
  38.9
34.8
34.2
33.3
33.0
27.8
27.8
26.4
25.8
25.2
  Austria
France
Italy
Italy
Spain
Germany
Italy
France
Germany
Germany

Country data

Top 5 countries
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
Netherlands

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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








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