Charles Schwab Licenses Five Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Indexes for First-Ever...

Charles Schwab Licenses Five Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Indexes for
First-Ever Lineup of ETFs

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global
index provider, today announced that Charles Schwab has licensed five Dow Jones
U.S. Total Stock Market Size and Style indexes to underlie the domestic portion
of their first-ever suite of exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Launching Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange are ETFs based on the following
indexes: Dow Jones U.S. Broad Stock Market Index, Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total
Stock Market Index and Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index.
Subsequent launches will include ETFs based on the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap
Growth Total Stock Market Index and the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Value Total
Stock Market Index.

"The Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes are designed to be representative and
replicable measurement tools, which makes them an excellent choice to underlie
passive investment vehicles," said Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones
Indexes. "Schwab's decision to launch its first offering of domestic ETFs on the
Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes reflects the indexes' wide acceptance by
the marketplace and gives investors access to clear segments of the U.S. stock
market."

"Schwab is pleased to introduce an impressive array of Exchange-Traded Funds for
investors. We are delighted to collaborate with Dow Jones Indexes, a highly
reputable partner, in using their indexes for our ETFs. We are certain our
launch will prove highly successful," said Peter Crawford, senior vice
president, Charles Schwab.

The five indexes are subsets of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index,
which measures the performance of all U.S. stocks with readily available prices.
The Dow Jones U.S. Broad Stock Market Index includes all companies in the Dow
Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index except for those securities defined as
micro-cap stocks. The Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index and Dow
Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index reflect different size segments of
U.S. equities while the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Growth and Value Total Stock
Market Indexes classify large-cap stocks as either "growth" or "value" style
companies.

The Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Indexes are weighted by float-adjusted
market capitalization and index components are reviewed on a semi-annual basis,
in March and September. Stocks are added and/or deleted monthly as the Dow Jones
U.S. Total Stock Market Index is updated.

As of Friday, October 30, 2009, the Dow Jones U.S. Broad Stock Market Index is
up 16.02% year to date, while the Dow Jones U.S. Large and Small-Cap Total Stock
Market Indexes are up 15.06% and 24.94%, respectively. The Dow Jones U.S.
Large-Cap Growth and Value Total Stock Market Indexes gained 23.61% and 6.84%,
respectively, so far this year.

More information on the Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes can be found on
www.djindexes.com.

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

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(Nasdaq:NWS) (Nasdaq:NWSA) (ASX:NWS) (ASX:NWSLV) (www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones
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Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch
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SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in
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