While Wall Street's Dow Jones (DJI: ^DJI - news) industrial average hits the highest level ever, its euro zone peer, the blue chip Euro STOXX 50 (Zurich: ^STOXX50E - news) index still needs to gain 71 percent to reach its 2007 top.
France's CAC 40 (Paris: ^FCHI - news) needs to gain 63 percent, Spain's IBEX needs to rise 92 percent and Italy's FTSE MIB (Milan: FTSEMIB.MI - news) needs to surge 180 percent, Thomson Reuters data shows.
Germany's DAX (Xetra: ^GDAXI - news) benchmark index has been outpacing euro zone peers throughout the sovereign debt crisis and is just 3.8 percent away from its 2007 top, while London's FTSE 100 (FTSE: ^FTSE - news) is 5.3 percent away from there.
Reuters Messaging: blaise.robinson.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net
