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Dow Jones Indexes’ Europe Dow Quarterly Review

20 of The Europe Dow’s 30 Stocks Closed Q1 in Positive Territory; Daimler AG Topped All Europe Dow Components with 36.73% Quarterly Gain; Tesco PLC’s 4.42% Gain in March is Best Among Europe Dow Stocks.   


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The Europe Dow, an equal-weighted index that measures 30 of the region’s leading blue-chip stocks, closed 2012’s first quarter with a gain of 7.07% despite dropping 2.11% in March, according to data compiled by Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider.

 For the first quarter of 2012, 20 of The Europe Dow’s 30 component stocks closed in positive territory, while 21 of the index’s stocks finished March with a monthly decline. The Europe Dow advanced 6.04% in February 2012, and finished up 5.96% in 2011’s first quarter.  

The index’s top performer for 2012’s first quarter was Daimler AG of Germany, which finished up 36.73%. For the quarter, shares of BASF SE (Germany, up 24.86%) and Allianz SE (Germany, up 24.18%) were the second- and third-leading Europe Dow performers. For the month of March, E.ON AG (Germany, up 3.56%) and Nestle S.A. (Switzerland, up 2.37%), were the second- and third-leading performers among Europe Dow components. Vivendi S.A. (France) was The Europe Dow’s worst-performing stock in the quarter and in March, down 16.57% and down 15.02%, respectively.  

By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher for the quarter and month of March, up 8.14% and 2.01%, respectively. The Asia Dow ended the quarter up 12.28% despite dropping 2.10% in March. The Global Dow gained 10.86% and 0.09% for the quarter and month, respectively.  

The Asia Dow is an equal-weighted, 30-stock index that measures leading blue-chips traded in the Asia/Pacific region; The Global Dow measures the performance of 150 leading companies from around the world. 

“With concerns about Europe’s sovereign debt crisis seeming to diminish somewhat, it was a bit surprising to see The Europe Dow fall in March,” said Jamie Farmer, Dow Jones Indexes’ Executive Director, Global Business Development and Communications. “However, thanks largely to German-based components, the index managed to post a gain for the first quarter. Given these mixed signals, global investors will undoubtedly continue to watch large-cap European stocks for indications about whether the continent’s debt problems will subside or linger, whether the improving U.S. economy can continue its upward climb and whether this month’s presidential election in France will be seen as a positive or negative for the financial markets.”   

The Europe Dow, The Asia Dow and The Global Dow track leading blue-chip companies according to the same underlying principles as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Stocks in The Europe Dow, The Asia Dow and The Global Dow are weighted equally; The Dow Jones Industrial Average uses a price-weighted methodology.   

All index and component performance values are based on price returns/USD.   

Below, please find a list of The Europe Dow’s 30 stocks and their Q1 2012 and March 2012 performances:

The Europe Dow

Q1 2012

March 2012

Components

performance

performance

1.           Daimler AG

36.73%

-0.85%

2.           BASF SE

24.86%

-0.92% 

3.           Allianz SE

24.18%

-2.15%

4.           Schneider Electric S.A.

23.54%

-4.39%

5.           BNP Paribas S.A.

20.25%

-3.33%

6.           Novo Nordisk A/S Series B

19.95%

-1.79%

7.           Vinci S.A.

18.81%

-0.41%

8.           UBS AG

17.06%

-0.33%

9.           HSBC Holdings PLC (UK Reg)

16.16%

-0.07%

10.       Rio Tinto PLC

13.37%

-3.83%

11.       H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB Series B

11.76%

-0.23%

12.       E.ON AG

10.52%

3.56%

13.       Diageo PLC

9.83%

-0.05%

14.       Nestle S.A.

8.82%

2.37%

15.       ABB Ltd.

8.38%

-0.33%

16.       Siemens AG

4.87%

0.52%

17.       BP PLC

3.27%

-6.04%

18.       Anglo American PLC

0.99%

-11.78%

19.       Banco Santander S.A.

0.84%

-7.75 %

20.       L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Series B

0.60%

2.23%

21.       Total S.A.

-0.69%

-9.34%

22.       Vodafone Group PLC

-1.04%

1.70%

23.       Unilever N.V. CVA

-1.49%

1.89%

24.       GlaxoSmithKline PLC

-2.09%

0.70%

25.       Novartis AG

-3.75%

1.02%

26.       Royal Dutch Shell PLC A

-4.34%

-4.61%

27.       Telefonica S.A.

-5.85%

-4.53%

28.       UniCredit S.p.A.

-8.88%

-4.27%

29.       Tesco PLC

-15.91%

4.42%

30.       Vivendi S.A.

-16.57%

-15.02

 

 

Source: ETFWorld – Dow Jones Indexes

STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the launch of a new set of ex Financials and ex Banks indices for Europe and the Euro zone. The new indices exclude all companies which are part of the Industry Classification Benchmark's (ICB) industry Financials or the supersector Banks, respectively.


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