Dow Jones Indexes announced the launch of five new indexes: the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Oil, the Dow Jones North America Select Junior Gas, the Dow Jones Canada Select Equal Weight REIT, the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Health Care Equal Weight Total Stock Market, and the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Banks Equal Weight Total Stock Market indexes. These five new indexes have been licensed to BMO Financial Group, a Canadian financial services company, to underlie exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The BMO ETFs are available today on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
Dow Jones Indexes announced component changes in the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index.
Dow Jones Indexes today announced that it has been named "Best Shari'ah-Compliant Index Provider" by Global Finance magazine for the third consecutive year.
NEW YORK, May 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the addition of four new indexes to its family of Dow Jones RBP Indexes. The new series of indexes include three directional strategy indexes and one fundamentally weighted U.S. market index. The three strategy indexes are the Dow Jones RBP U.S. Large-Cap Aggressive Index, the Dow Jones RBP U.S. Large-Cap Defensive Index, and the Dow Jones RBP U.S. Large-Cap Market Index. The fundamentally weighted market index, the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index (RBP weighted), provides market participants with additional rules-based information to measure the valuation of publicly traded companies included in the index.