Component Changes Made to Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index


NEW YORK, May 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index.

Zenith National Insurance Corp. (United States, Insurance, ZNT) will be deleted from the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index and replaced by H.J. Heinz Co. (United States, Food and Beverage, HNZ). Zenith National Insurance Corp. is being removed due to its acquisition by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (Canada, Insurance, FFH.T). The changes in the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index will be effective as of the open of trading on Friday, May 21, 2010.

The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index tracks the top 100 highest dividend-paying U.S. companies derived from the Dow Jones U.S. Index, which covers approximately 95% of U.S. market capitalization. Further information on the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index can be found at http://www.djindexes.com.

Company additions to and deletions from the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.

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Dow Jones Indexes (www.djindexes.com) is a leading full-service index provider that 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 offers more than 130,000 equity indexes as well as fixed-income and alternative indexes, including measures of hedge funds, commodities and real estate. Dow Jones Indexes employs clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. Dow Jones Indexes is part of CME Group Index Services LLC, a joint venture company which is owned 90 percent by CME Group Inc. (www.cmegroup.com) and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com), a News Corporation company (Nasdaq:NWS) (Nasdaq:NWSA) (ASX:NWS) (ASX:NWSLV) (www.newscorp.com).

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