Component Changes Made to Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index

October 9, 2006

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2006 — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index.

Gunns Limited (ASX:GNS) will replace Excel Coal Limited (ASX:EXL) in the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index.

Excel Coal Limited is being deleted due to its acquisition by Peabody Energy Corp. (United States, NYSE:BTU)

The changes in the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 30 Index will be effective as of the open of trading on Thursday, October 12, 2006

Further information as well as the complete component list of the Dow Jones Australia Select Dividend 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 Australia Select Dividend 30 Index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.

# # #

Journalists may e-mail questions regarding this press release to or contact Dow Jones Indexes press office:

New York: +1-212-597-5720
Frankfurt: +49-69-29-725-290
Hong Kong: +852-800-969-336
Singapore: +65-6-4154-299

About Dow Jones Indexes

Dow Jones Indexes 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. and 10 percent by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

"Dow Jones®," "Dow Jones Indexes," and all other index names listed above are service marks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC ("Dow Jones"), and have been licensed for use by CME Group Index Services LLC ("CME Indexes").

Comments on this entry are closed.

Previous post:

Next post: