The Asia Dow Finished April Down 1.09% According To Dow Jones Indexes - 14 Of The Asia Dow’s 30 Component Stocks Closed Month In Positive Territory - Hyundai Motor Co. Topped All With 15.53% Gain For April

The Asia Dow, an equal-weighted, 30-stock index that measures 30 of the leading blue-chip stocks traded in the Asia/Pacific region, dropped 1.09% in April, according to data compiled by Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider.

Fourteen of The Asia Dow’s 30 component stocks closed the month in positive territory.

The index’s top performer for April was Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd. of South Korea, which closed up 15.53%. Shares of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (South Korea) and PetroChina Co. Ltd. (China), up 9.30% and 7.19%, respectively, were the second- and third-leading stocks on The Asia Dow. Sony Corp. (Japan), which fell 20.40%, was The Asia Dow’s worst-performing stock in April.

By comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended April up 0.01%. The Europe Dow fell 4.14% and The Global Dow dropped 2.93%. The Europe Dow is an equal-weighted index that measures 30 of the continent’s leading blue-chip stocks; The Global Dow measures the performance of 150 leading companies from around the world.

In March, The Asia Dow closed down 2.10%.

The Asia Dow, The Europe Dow and The Global Dow track leading blue-chip companies according to the same underlying principles as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Stocks in The Asia Dow, The Europe Dow and The Global Dow are weighted equally; The Dow Jones Industrial Average uses a price-weighted methodology.

All index and component performance values are based on price returns/USD.

Below, please find a list of The Asia Dow’s 30 stocks and their April 2012 performances: