The ranking measures a composite of sales, profits, assets and market value.

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Its Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which measures business activity, rose to 46.5 in November from 45.7 the month before.

BBC: Eurozone recession to continue into 2013, survey suggests

China's Shanghai Composite, which tumbled 3.7% on Monday after the introduction of new measures to cool the country's property market, climbed 2.3%.

WSJ: Dow Breaks Record, Keeps Going

We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.

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