Component Changes Made To Dow Jones Japan Titans 100 And Hong Kong Titans 30 After Quarterly Review

NEW YORK, September 13, 2002 – Dow Jones Indexes today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Japan Titans 100 and Dow Jones Hong Kong Titans 30 indexes.

Effective with the opening of trading, Monday, September 23, West Japan Railway Co. will replace Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. in the Dow Jones Japan Titans 100 and Cosco Pacific Ltd. will replace China Everbright Ltd. in the Dow Jones Hong Kong Titans 30.

Changes are being announced today after the conclusion of the quarterly review. The review is based on methodology that ranks companies according to their free-float market capitalization. The detailed methodology for each index is published in the indexes’ rulebooks, accessible on the Dow Jones Indexes web site at http://www.djindexes.com.

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