TACOMA, WA--(Marketwire - July 29, 2010) -  Equity markets in the Russell Europe Index are showing a gain of 12.4% for the month of July (MTD through July 27, 2010), as compared to returns of -0.5% and -14.6% for the first and second quarters of 2010, respectively.

The Russell Europe Index has outperformed other regions for July through July 27, including the Russell Developed Index (8.7%), the Russell Emerging Markets Index and the Russell Asia Index (3.8%).

The Russell Global Index includes more than 10,000 securities in 61 countries and covers 98% of the investable global market. All securities in the benchmark are classified according to size, region, country and sector. Daily Returns for the main components are available here: http://www.russell.com/indexes/data/daily_total_returns_global.asp

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