Component Changes Made to Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index

January 27, 2010

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2010 — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced component changes in the Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index.

Sun Microsystems Inc. (United States, Technology, JAVA) will be deleted from the and replaced by Oracle Corporation (United States, Technology, ORCL). Sun Microsystems Inc. is being removed due to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.

The changes in the will be effective as of the open of trading on Thursday January 28, 2010.

The Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index measures the performance of all publicly traded securities of companies that are official partners, sponsors or suppliers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.The index is reviewed quarterly in March, June, September and December.

Further information on the can be found on http://www.djindexes.com.

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A full-service index provider, Dow Jones Indexes 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 also maintains its benchmark index series, the Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes, which is anchored by the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index and covers more than 12,000 securities in 65 markets. Beyond equity indexes, Dow Jones Indexes maintains a number of alternative indexes, including measures of the hedge fund and commodity markets. Dow Jones indexes are maintained according to clear, unbiased and systematic methodologies that are fully integrated within index families. www.djindexes.com

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