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| | 2000 LEADERS - THE BUSINESS WEEK GLOBAL 1000 | |
| RANK | | MARKET VALUE | | RANK | | MARKET VALUE |
| 2000 | 1999 | | Billion of US$ | | 2000 | 1999 | | Billion of US$ |
| 1 | 2 | General Electric | US 520.25 | | 46 | 34 | HSBC Holdings | Britain 93.30 |
| 2 | 8 | Intel | US 416.71 | | 47 | 28 | Roche Holding | Switzerland 92.38 |
| 3 | 9 | Cisco Systems | US 395.01 | | 48 | 25 | Berkshire Hathaway | US 89.13 |
| 4 | 1 | Microsoft | US 322.82 | | 49 | 36 | Bellsouth | US 87.88 |
| 5 | 4 | Exxon Mobil | US 289.92 | | 50 | 69 | Walt Disney | US 87.66 |
| 6 | 70 | Vodafone Airtouch | British 277.95 | | 51 | 22 | Procter & Gamble | US 87.49 |
| 7 | 6 | Wall-Mart Stores | US 256.66 | | 52 | 61 | Allianz | Germany 87.13 |
| 8 | 27 | NIT Docomo | Japan 247.24 | | 53 | 109 | Siemens | Germany 86.73 |
| 9 | 38 | Nokia | Finland 242.19 | | 54 | 58 | Telecom Italia | Italy 85.26 |
| 10 | 5 | Royal Dutch/Shell Group | Neth/Britain 213.54 | | 55 | 45 | Eli Lilly | US 83.02 |
| 11 | 15 | Citi Group | US 209.86 | | 56 | 40 | Bell Atlantic | US 82.10 |
| 12 | 10 | BP Amoco | Britain 207.51 | | 57 | 73 | Morgan Stanley Dean Witter | US 81.42 |
| 13 | 122 | Oracle | US 204.01 | | 58 | 112 | Sony | Japan 80.36 |
| 14 | 3 | International Business Machines | US 192.49 | | 59 | 52 | Tyco International | US 79.44 |
| 15 | 13 | Nipon Telegraph & Telephone | Japan 189.16 | | 60 | 95 | TIM | Italy 75.92 |
| 16 | 23 | Deutsche Telekom | Germany 187.25 | | 61 | 53 | Astrzeneca | Britain 76.07 |
| 17 | 16 | Lucent Technologies | US 183.34 | | 62 | 51 | Nestle | Switzerland 74.89 |
| 18 | 17 | American International Group | US 173.50 | | 63 | 60 | Wells Fargo | US 74.88 |
| 19 | 12 | Merck | US 172.87 | | 64 | 118 | Seven-eleven Japan | Japan 73.72 |
| 20 | 18 | PFizer | US 171.52 | | 65 | 74 | American Express | US 71.89 |
| 21 | 32 | Toyota Motor | Japan 170.52 | | 66 | 48 | Smithkline Beecham | Britain 71.69 |
| 22 | 77 | LM Ericsson | Sweden 158.05 | | 67 | 59 | Schering-Plough | US 71.07 |
| 23 | 84 | Nortel Networks | Canada 152.39 | | 68 | 46 | American Home Products | US 70.26 |
| 24 | 31 | SBC Communications | US 149.03 | | 69 | NR | United Parcel Service | US 67.95 |
| 25 | 43 | France Telecom | France 148.71 | | 70 | 85 | Motorola | US 67.25 |
| 26 | 11 | Coca-cola | US 131.97 | | 71 | 228 | Applied Materials | US 66.92 |
| 27 | 82 | EMC | US 126.19 | | 72 | 80 | Telefonica | Spain 66.57 |
| 28 | 21 | Johnson & Johnson | US 124.55 | | 73 | 175 | Pharmacia | US 65.93 |
| 29 | 20 | America Online | US 121.76 | | 74 | 127 | Amgen | US 65.33 |
| 30 | 33 | Hewlett Packard | US 120.14 | | 75 | 191 | Alcatel | France 64.91 |
| 31 | 91 | Sun Microsystems | US 119.62 | | 76 | 104 | Vivendi | France 63.75 |
| 32 | 96 | Texas Instruments | US 118.23 | | 77 | 56 | Abbott Laboratories | US 63.04 |
| 33 | 141 | Total Finaelf | France 116.32 | | 78 | 98 | Medtronic | US 61.79 |
| 34 | 41 | Home Depot | US 112.38 | | 79 | 54 | Fannie Mae | US 61.68 |
| 35 | 37 | Cell Computer | US 111.55 | | 80 | 67 | Chase Manhatten | US 61.58 |
| 36 | 7 | AT & T | US 109.10 | | 81 | 66 | GTE | US 61.47 |
| 37 | 19 | Bristol Myers Squibb | US 108.80 | | 82 | 148 | Yahoo | US 61.42 |
| 38 | 4 | World Com | US 107.55 | | 83 | 107 | Takeda Chemical Industries | Japan 60.70 |
| 39 | 29 | Novartis | Switzerland 105.96 | | 84 | 35 | Philip Morris | US 60.44 |
| 40 | 76 | Warner-Lambert | US 105.92 | | 85 | 68 | Chevron | US 60.25 |
| 41 | 42 | Time Warner | US 103.65 | | 86 | 139 | Royal Philips Electronics | Netherlands 60.20 |
| 42 | 30 | Glaxo Wellcome | Britain 102.12 | | 87 | 50 | Lloyds TSB Group | Britain 59.25 |
| 43 | 24 | Bank of America | US 94.86 | | 88 | 65 | Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi | Japan 58.62 |
| 44 | 171 | Viacom | US 94.41 | | 89 | 55 | Ford Motor | US 58.52 |
| 45 | 26 | British Telecommunications | Britain 93.70 | | 90 | 78 | Pepsico | US 58.33 |