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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 Akzo Nobel 455 69.1
2 CVRD 235 36.7
3 Rosneft Oil 203 35.5
4 BHP Billiton 183 34.0
5 Novartis 181 30.0
6 Groupe Danone 423 28.4
7 Microsoft 136 27.5
8 Petronas 95 27.4
9 National Grid 351 27.3
10 Occidental Petroleum 420 26.7
11 Altria Group 190 25.7
12 Anglo American 266 24.7
13 Rio Tinto Group 263 24.6
14 Oracle 462 23.7
15 GlaxoSmithKline 151 23.0
16 Kookmin Bank 461 22.3
17 Schlumberger 358 22.2
18 China Construction Bank 171 22.0
19 Sabic 227 21.4
20 British American Tobacco 425 21.3
21 U.S. Bancorp 417 21.3
22 Cisco Systems 218 21.0
23 Royal KPN 486 21.0
24 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China 133 20.8
25 Coca-Cola 275 20.7
26 Wyeth 381 20.6
27 Oil & Natural Gas 335 20.5
28 Intesa Sanpaolo 144 20.5
29 Roche Group 175 20.2
30 Sberbank 406 20.0
31 Gazprom 47 19.5
32 Xstrata 272 19.1
33 Bank of China 187 19.0
34 AstraZeneca 265 18.9
35 América Móvil 283 18.8
36 Vodafone 85 18.8
37 EnCana 393 18.5
38 Intel 188 18.2
39 Nordea Bank 354 18.2
40 Sanofi-Aventis 178 18.0
41 China Mobile Communications 148 17.9
42 Travelers Cos. 308 17.7
43 China Ocean Shipping 405 17.6
44 China National Offshore Oil 409 17.6
45 Norsk Hydro 472 17.6
46 Johnson & Johnson 107 17.3
47 Pfizer 143 16.8
48 3M 327 16.7
49 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 469 16.7
50 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria 134 16.3
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