Component Changes Made to Dow Jones Select Dividend Indexes
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NEW YORK, May 11, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global
index provider, today announced that Incitec Pivot Ltd. (Australia, Chemicals,
IPL.AU) will be removed from the Dow Jones Asia/Pacific Select Dividend 30 and
Dow Jones EPAC Select Dividend indexes.
In the Dow Jones Asia/Pacific Select Dividend 30 Index, Incitec Pivot Ltd.
(Australia, Chemicals, IPL.AU) will be replaced by Raffles Education Corporation
Limited (Singapore, Retail, E6D.SG).
In the Dow Jones EPAC Select Dividend Index, Incitec Pivot Ltd. (Australia,
Chemicals, IPL.AU) will be replaced by Acea S.p.A. (Italy, Utilities, ACE.MI).
Incitec Pivot Ltd. is being removed due to a decrease in its dividend payment.
The company's new dividend yield does not meet the indexes' eligibility
requirements. All changes in the Dow Jones Asia/Pacific Select Dividend 30 Index
and Dow Jones EPAC Select Dividend Index will be effective before the open of
trading on Friday, May 15, 2009.
Further information on the Dow Jones Asia/Pacific Select Dividend 30 and Dow
Jones EPAC Select Dividend indexes can be found on the Dow Jones Indexes Web
site at http://www.djindexes.com
Company additions to and deletions from the Dow Jones Asia/Pacific Select
Dividend 30 and Dow Jones EPAC Select Dividend indexes do not in any way reflect
an opinion on the investment merits of the company.
Journalists may e-mail questions regarding this press release to
PR-Indexes@dowjones.com.
About Dow Jones Indexes
A full-service index provider, Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and
licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products.
Best known for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Indexes also is
co-owner of the Dow Jones STOXX indexes, the world's leading pan-European
indexes that are an integrated segment of the Dow Jones Global Index series.
Additionally, Dow Jones Indexes maintains its benchmark index series, the Dow
Jones Total Stock Market Indexes, which is anchored by the Dow Jones U.S. Total
Stock Market Index and covers more than 12,000 securities in 65 markets. Beyond
equity indexes, Dow Jones Indexes maintains a number of alternative indexes,
including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones indexes
are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that
are fully integrated within index families. www.djindexes.com
Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company
(Nasdaq:NWS), (Nasdaq:NWSA) (ASX:NWS), (ASX:NWSLV); (www.newscorp.com). Dow
Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services.
Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's,
MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group
includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow
Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media
Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of
SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in
the U.S.
The Dow Jones & Company logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=4578
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CONTACT: Dow Jones Indexes/STOXX press offices:
New York:
+1-212-597-5720
Frankfurt:
+49-69-29725-290
Hong Kong:
+852-800-969-336
Singapore:
+65-6-4154-299
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