Russell India Index Reflects March Rally, Up 7% MTD Through March 28

SEATTLE, WA--(Korea Newswire)--Despite reflecting a loss of 8.7% year-to-date, the Russell India Index has rallied in March, posting a 7% gain for the month. The Russell India Index outperformed the Russell Emerging Markets Index (2.6%), Russell BRIC Index (2.5%) and Russell Asia Pacific Index (-2.3%) for the MTD period through March 28, 2011.

The negative year-to-date performance largely stems from January, when the Russell India Index reflected a loss of 12.8%. Though its performance has improved each month, the index has underperformed the Russell BRIC Index (-0.2%), Russell Emerging Markets Index (-1.3%) and Russell Asia Pacific Index (-2.7%) for the year through March 28, 2011.

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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