Market Benchmarks
By Compiled By Tara Kalwarski

(MONEY Magazine) – MARKET MEASURES % TOTAL RETURN Level 3 months 1 year 3 years[1] S&P 500 1033.7 3.5 12.7 -6.4 Nasdaq[2] 1881.9 5.9 28.2 -12.0 Russell 2000 523.1 6.0 33.3 6.0 Morgan Stanley EAFE 1169.1 8.8 22.4 -6.4 Dow Jones industrial average 9619.4 2.7 11.3 -0.6 Lehman Brothers aggregate bond index 1053.5 2.9 5.7 8.4

HOTTEST AND COLDEST SECTORS Three-month price change

Home Building 28.7% Tobacco 25.2% Health-care services 23.0% Semiconductors 21.4% Communications equipment 19.8%

Integrated telecom services -6.9% Multiline insurance -7.1% Food retail -7.1% Oil & gas equipment & services -7.3% Biotechnology -10.9%

S&P 500 RATIOS

[1] Current [2] One year ago

P/E 30.2 [1] 34.2 [2]

% yield 1.7 [1] 1.7 [2]

% TOTAL RETURN STOCK FUND AVERAGES 3 months 1 year 3 years[1]

U.S. diversified equity 4.1 17.9 -4.3 Large company 2.9 11.0 -8.9 Mid-size company 4.6 22.8 -3.2 Small company 6.6 31.1 4.1 Multicap 3.9 16.7 -5.3 Balanced 3.2 10.8 -0.7 Specialty 0.0 -5.6 2.7

BOND FUND AVERAGES

U.S. government 2.6 2.8 6.5 Investment-grade corporate 2.7 6.1 7.1 High-yield corporate 6.5 22.8 6.4 Tax-exempt 3.4 5.6 6.1

% 3-mo. WIDELY HELD STOCKS return P/E Price

General Electric (GE) -3.4 20.5 $28.95 Pfizer (PFE) 13.5 20.1 33.65 Cisco Systems (CSCO) 16.3 35.4 21.94 Microsoft (MSFT) -3.7 23.6 25.10 ExxonMobil (XOM) -4.0 14.5 35.31 Intel (INTC) 20.7 46.1 31.83 Lucent Technologies (LU) 63.4 N.A. 3.04 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 4.7 20.3 51.49 Citigroup (C) 5.0 15.3 45.77 Agere Systems B (AGRB) 13.2 N.A. 3.01

BEST-PERFORMING STOCKS

Rank/last month % return P/E Price

One month

1 52 Akamai Technologies (AKAM) 95.1 N.A. $11.24 2 -- Metro International[3] (MTROA) 86.1 N.A. 1.89 3 -- TeleTech Holdings (TTEC) 66.8 112.7 10.14 4 -- NET Srvs. de Comunicacao[3] (NETC) 64.8 N.A. 4.12 5 -- ASAT Holdings[3] (ASTT) 62.3 N.A. 4.30 6 850 Novell (NOVL) 57.2 175.4 8.77 7 379 Corus Group[3] (CGA) 45.5 N.A. 5.50 8 -- Amerco (UHALQ) 45.4 N.A. 26.49 9 734 Southern Peru Copper (PCU) 45.0 30.5 35.10 10 492 O2Micro International (OIIM) 42.8 88.9 23.12

Three months

1 -- ASAT Holdings[3] (ASTT) 297.8 N.A. 4.30 2 -- NET Srvs. de Comunicacao[3] (NETC) 258.3 N.A. 4.12 3 -- Ivanhoe Energy (IVAN) 198.8 N.A. 4.66 4 619 Akamai Technologies (AKAM) 180.2 N.A. 11.24 5 3 Mattson Technology (MTSN) 144.2 N.A. 13.53 6 7 Extendicare (EXEA) 123.0 26.4 9.52 7 -- Amerco (UHALQ) 122.0 N.A. 26.49 8 -- TeleTech Holdings (TTEC) 120.0 112.7 10.14 9 162 Telesystem Intl. Wireless (TIWI) 115.3 N.A. 7.86 10 -- Harmonic (HLIT) 113.9 N.A. 7.98

One year

1 9 NTL (NTLI) 1218.2 N.A. 58.66 2 1 Millicom Intl. Cellular (MICC) 1080.4 N.A. 63.74 3 22 XM Satellite Radio Hldgs. (XMSR) 1065.2 N.A. 21.44 4 14 Biocoral (BCRA.OB) 812.3 N.A. 65.00 5 2 Sonus Networks (SONS) 755.0 N.A. 8.55 6 24 NII Holdings (NIHD) 725.1 11.4 69.72 7 -- Ivanhoe Energy (IVAN) 717.7 N.A. 4.66 8 7 Ask Jeeves (ASKJ) 671.9 52.4 17.83 9 11 Primus Telecom Group (PRTL) 612.7 68.2 9.55 10 5 Sina (SINA) 590.7 63.9 32.60

HIGHEST-YIELDING DOW STOCKS % yield P/E Price

Altria Group (MO) 5.4 11.1 $50.02 AT&T (T) 5.0 7.3 19.10 SBC Communications (SBC) 4.9 12.5 22.93 General Motors (GM) 4.8 7.2 41.67 J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM) 3.9 12.7 34.63 DuPont (DD) 3.6 23.1 39.21 Merck (MRK) 3.3 14.6 45.16 Citigroup (C) 3.1 15.3 45.77 ExxonMobil (XOM) 2.8 14.5 35.31 International Paper (IP) 2.7 41.0 36.93

Notes and sources: Unless otherwise noted, data as of Nov. 20 from Lipper, New York; 877-955-4773. Bond index data from Lehman Brothers. Market Measures index levels from Bloomberg. Hottest and Coldest Sectors and S&P 500 Ratios from Standard & Poor's; ranking limited to sectors with at least three companies. List of Widely Held Stocks ranked by largest number of accounts at Merrill Lynch as of Oct. 31. Widely Held Stocks, Best-Performing Stocks P/E and Highest-Yielding Dow Stocks data from Thomson/Baseline; P/E based on GAAP. Best-Performing Stocks limited to companies with market capitalization of at least $500 million. [1] Multiyear returns are annualized. [2] Price change only. [3] American Depositary Receipts. N.A.: Not available. Compiled by Tara Kalwarski