Component Changes Made to Dow Jones Automobiles & Parts Titans 30 Index

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Mon Jun 1, 2009 4:27pm EDT

NEW YORK, June 1, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global
index provider, today announced that General Motors Corp. (United States,
Automobile & Parts, GM) will be removed from the Dow Jones Automobiles & Parts
Titans 30 Index.

General Motors Corp. will be replaced by Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
(Japan, Automobiles & Parts, 5802.TO) in the Dow Jones Automobiles & Parts
Titans 30 Index. General Motors Corp. is being removed due to its filing for
bankruptcy.

All changes will be effective before the open of trading on Thursday, June 4,
2009.

Further information on the Dow Jones Automobiles & Parts Titans 30 Index can be
found on the Dow Jones Indexes Web site at http://www.djindexes.com.

Company additions to and deletions from the Dow Jones Automobiles & Parts Titans
30 Index does 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.

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