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Russell Euro Zone Value Index
Fact sheet

Monthly data
As of October 31, 2008

Statistics

Capitalization (in billions)                    
Average market cap ($-WTD)                   46.160
Median market cap                   0.727
Largest stock by market cap                   191.045
Smallest stock by market cap                   0.020
Fundamental characteristics                    
Price/Book                   1.01
Dividend yield                   6.37
P/E Ex-Neg earnings                   7.5
Lt growth forecast-IBES                   4.71%
EPS growth 5 years                   24.6

Total returns in percentages

     October        YTD       1 yr       3 yr        5 yr  
Russell Euro Zone Value   -24.11   -47.98   -50.24   -3.98   6.12

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Membership data

Top 10 holdings   Country
Total S.A.
Volkswagen AG
E.ON AG
Banco Santander S.A. (Spain)
BNP Paribas S.A.
Sanofi-Aventis S.A.
GDF-Suez
ENI SpA
France Telecom
Deutsche Telekom AG
  France
Germany
Germany
Spain
France
France
France
Italy
France
Germany

Top 10 performers   Return   Country
Volkswagen AG
Oberthur Technologies S.A.
Hypo Real Estate Holding AG
Meinl International Power Ltd
BayWa AG (V)
Biotest AG
Digital Multimedia Technologies S.p.A
Viscofan S.A.
Prosafe Production Public Ltd
CRH PLC
  62.2
21.1
12.7
11.1
10.5
8.4
5.6
4.8
4.1
4.1
  Germany
France
Germany
Austria
Germany
Germany
Italy
Spain
Cyprus
Ireland

Country data

Top 5 countries
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Netherlands

Sectors — Largest five by weight

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








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