Titans Index launch from Dow Jones

Dow Jones Indexes has launched the Dow Jones Global Titans Index, a list of the world's top 50 international companies. To form the index, the top 100 stocks by market cap were taken from the Dow Jones Global Indexes. Each company was then ranked according to asset value, book value, sales/revenue and net profit. These were combined with market cap rank and this, plus foreign sales ranking, was used to determine the final list. The index will be reviewed annually. "Global Titan's are companies that will dominate the world's economy well into the twenty-first century," said Michael Petrone...