The BBC Global 30 is a worldwide stock market index, run as a global economic barometer. Started by the BBC on 29 September 2004, it mixes the economic information of the world's largest companies based in three continents. So far it has proved to be very volatile, as many of the companies have had major gains and losses. A comparison of three major stock indices: the NASDAQ Composite, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and S&P 500. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ...

The companies in the index (as of December 29, 2006)

Company	Country
BASF	Germany
BHP Billiton	Australia
BP	United Kingdom
Canon	Japan
Citigroup	United States
CNOOC	Hong Kong
Du Pont de Nemours	United States
Enel	Italy
Exelon	United States
Exxon Mobil	United States
General Electric	United States
HSBC Holdings	United Kingdom
Hutchison Whampoa	Hong Kong
Microsoft	United States
Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial	Japan
Nestlé	Switzerland
NewsCorp	United States
Nokia	Finland
Novartis	Switzerland
NTT DoCoMo	Japan
Pfizer	United States
Procter & Gamble	United States
Siemens	Germany
Takeda Pharmaceutical	Japan
Tesco	United Kingdom
Tokyo Electric Power	Japan
Toyota Motor	Japan
Verizon Communications	United States
Vodafone Group	United Kingdom
Wal-Mart Stores	United States

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