SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwire) — 02/03/12 — Year-to-date performance for the constituents of the Russell Developed Europe Index through January 31st, 2012:
Greece has gone from “worst to first.” The index led the Eurozone thus this year despite being the worst performing index in 2011 (-55.2%).
The top five countries within the index in January were Greece (+23.4%), Austria (+9.9%), Germany (+9.5%), Finland (+7.8%) and Italy (+6.1%).
The UK has returned (+4.1%) in January, placing it 11th out of 18 countries within the index.
Iceland (-5.9%), Portugal (-4.4%) and The Netherlands (-0.1%) were at the bottom of the Russell Developed Europe Index — the only countries with negative performance for 2012 year-to-date.
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