BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JULY 12, 1999 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L COVER STORY Market Guide for Investors RANK COUNTRY MARKET CAPITALIZATION (BILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS) P-E RATIO YIELD (%) RETURN ON EQUITY 1 U.S. 11,273.1 36 1.3 21.8 2 BRITAIN 1,964.9 21 2.6 33.8 3 JAPAN 1,904.9 37 0.8 6.9 4 GERMANY 820.1 25 2.4 19.4 5 FRANCE 756.4 29 2.1 12.4 6 SWITZERLAND 557.3 28 1.3 17.5 7 NETHERLANDS 499.0 50 1.6 27.0 8 ITALY 380.5 31 1.7 16.8 9 CANADA 284.4 27 1.9 12.6 10 AUSTRALIA 233.6 29 2.6 13.4 DATA: MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INC., BUSINESS WEEK _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS The Global 1000 (int'l edition) INT'L COVER IMAGE: The Global 1000 TABLE: Market Guide for Investors TABLE: How the Giants Stack Up CHART: How U.S. Stocks Led the Way TABLE: The BW Global 1000, by Rank (.pdf) (int'l edition) TABLE: The BW Global 1000, Country by Country (.pdf) (int'l edition) TABLE: The BW Global 1000, Alphabetical Index (.pdf) (int'l edition) TABLE: The BW Global 1000, 1989-1999 (.pdf) (int'l edition) The Company That Got Japan to Log On (int'l edition) Emerging Markets Re-Emerge (int'l edition) TABLE: The Top 200 Emerging-Market Companies (.pdf) (int'l edition) ONLINE ORIGINAL TABLE: The Top 25 European Companies ONLINE ORIGINAL TABLE: The Top 25 Asian Companies ONLINE ORIGINAL TABLE: The Top 25 Digital Economy Companies ONLINE ORIGINAL TABLE: Net-Powered Stars ONLINE ORIGINAL: AOL's Case: "Consistent and Unwavering...Nimble and Flexible" (int'l edition) ONLINE ORIGINAL: Forrester's Colony: "The Web Is Incredibly Crude Technology" (int'l edition) ONLINE ORIGINAL: Harvard B-School's Gompers: "The Internet Is Going to Be Everywhere" (int'l edition) ONLINE ORIGINAL: Microsoft's Herbold: "We Don't Take Anything for Granted Here" (int'l edition) ONLINE ORIGINAL: BT Worldwide's Mockett: "We're Building a Global Internet Network" (int'l edition) INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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