Component Changes Made to Dow Jones Select Dividend Indexes

March 1, 2010

NEW YORK, March 1, 2010 — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Sweden Select Dividend 15, Dow Jones U.K. Select Dividend 20 and Dow Jones Global Select Dividend indexes.

In the Dow Jones Sweden Select Dividend 15 Index, Seco Tools AB Series B (Sweden, Industrial Goods and Services, SECO-B.SK) will be replaced by Tele2 AB Series B (Sweden, Telecommunications, TEL2-B.SK).

In the Dow Jones U.K. Select Dividend 20 Index, BRIT Insurance Holdings N.V. (United Kingdom, Insurance, BRE.LN) will be replaced by RSA Insurance Group PLC (United Kingdom, Insurance, RSA.LN).

In the Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Index, BRIT Insurance Holdings N.V. (United Kingdom, Insurance, BRE.LN) will be replaced by Tate & Lyle PLC (United Kingdom, Food and Beverage, TATE.LN).

Seco Tools AB Series B and BRIT Insurance Holdings N.V. are being removed due to the cancellation of their dividend payments. All changes will be effective as of the open of trading on Thursday, March 4, 2010.

Further information on the Dow Jones Select Dividend Indexes can be found at http://www.djindexes.com.

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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).

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