Dow Jones Indexes Named Index Provider of the Year in Asia

January 27, 2010

NEW YORK (January 28, 2010) — Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that it has been named "Index Provider of the Year in Asia" by Asia Asset Management magazine.

The award recognizes Dow Jones Indexes’ existing market share and index launches in the past two years across the region as well as initiatives in Asian emerging markets such as China and India. Furthermore, Dow Jones Indexes’ thought leadership and efforts to promote and enhance market transparency and efficiency were awarded.

"Dow Jones Indexes has been a significant contributor to indexing throughout Asia for the past 14 years. In 1996, we launched the Dow Jones China index series. Since then, we have introduced unique index concepts such as the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes, the Dow Jones Select Dividend Indexes, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and the Dow Jones Hong Kong IPO Index," said Michael A. Petronella, president, Dow Jones Indexes. "We remain strongly committed to provide the Asian investment community with innovative, reliable, objective and relevant indexes."

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

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

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises.

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