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U.S. 153
Japan 64
France 39
U.S. Postal Service 785,929
Sinopec 634,011
Hon Hai Precision Industry 550,000
Exxon Mobil $40,610
Royal Dutch Shell $31,331
General Electric $22,208
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1 Exxon Mobil 2 40,610.0 2.8
2 Royal Dutch Shell 3 31,331.0 23.1
3 General Electric 12 22,208.0 6.6
4 BP 4 20,845.0 -5.3
5 Gazprom 47 19,269.2 -5.2
6 HSBC Holdings 20 19,133.0 21.2
7 Chevron 6 18,688.0 9.0
8 Petronas 95 18,118.4 40.9
9 Total 8 18,041.7 22.2
10 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 32 15,365.0 6.4
11 Royal Bank of Scotland 36 15,103.0 28.4
12 Toyota Motor 5 15,042.5 7.0
13 Bank of America Corp. 28 14,982.0 -29.1
14 China National Petroleum 25 14,925.3 12.5
15 Microsoft 136 14,065.0 11.6
16 ENI 27 13,702.7 18.5
17 BHP Billiton 183 13,416.0 28.4
18 Vodafone 85 13,366.1 N.A.
19 Berkshire Hathaway 30 13,213.0 20.0
20 Petrobras 63 13,138.0 2.4
21 Rosneft Oil 203 12,862.0 264.1
22 Akzo Nobel 455 12,770.6 782.8
23 Wal-Mart Stores 1 12,731.0 12.8
24 ING Group 7 12,648.7 31.1
25 Santander Central Hispano Group 58 12,401.3 30.1
26 Telefónica 76 12,190.2 55.9
27 AT&T 29 11,951.0 62.5
28 Novartis 181 11,946.0 66.5
29 ConocoPhillips 10 11,891.0 -23.5
30 CVRD 235 11,825.0 81.1
31 Goldman Sachs Group 61 11,599.0 21.6
32 Allianz 22 10,903.6 23.8
33 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China 133 10,717.8 73.4
34 BNP Paribas 21 10,706.5 16.8
35 Johnson & Johnson 107 10,576.0 -4.3
36 GlaxoSmithKline 151 10,431.5 5.2
37 International Business Machines 46 10,418.0 9.8
38 ArcelorMittal 39 10,368.0 98.4
39 Procter & Gamble 79 10,340.0 19.1
40 Intesa Sanpaolo 144 9,923.5 209.1
41 Nokia 88 9,861.9 82.5
42 E.ON 52 9,860.6 55.4
43 Altria Group 190 9,786.0 -18.6
44 Lukoil 90 9,511.0 27.1
45 China Construction Bank 171 9,078.7 56.3
46 Nestlé 57 8,874.5 21.0
47 Deutsche Bank 26 8,861.4 18.0
48 Barclays 70 8,836.9 5.1
49 France Télécom 84 8,623.2 66.1
50 China Mobile Communications 148 8,426.1 34.6
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