Component Change Made to Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index


NEW YORK, July 7, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced a component change in the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index.

Climate Exchange PLC (United Kingdom, Financial Services, CLE.LN) is being removed from the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index due to its acquisition by Aether Ios Limited (United Kingdom), which brings the total number of components to 22.

The change in the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index will be effective as of the open of trading on Thursday, July 8, 2010.

The Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index measures the performance of all publicly traded stock exchanges and trading floors. The index composition is reviewed on a quarterly basis in March, June, September and December and is calculated in both price and total return.

Further information on the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index can be found at http://www.djindexes.com.

Company additions to and deletions from the Dow Jones Global Exchanges 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 the marketing name for 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, Inc. (www.dowjones.com), a News Corporation company (Nasdaq:NWS) (Nasdaq:NWSA) (ASX:NWS)  (ASX:NWSLV) (www.newscorp.com).



            

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