Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
Fri Jun 13, 5:17 PMTORONTO, June 13 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes as a result of the Quarterly S&P/TSX Composite Index Review. These changes will be effective at the open on Monday, June 23, 2008:
S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX
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ADDITIONS
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Live Composite
Issue Name Symbol 60/Completion GICS Sector Index
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Birchcliff Energy Ltd. BIR Completion Energy
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Crew Energy Inc. CR Completion Energy
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Iteration Energy Ltd. ITX Completion Energy
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DELETIONS
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Live Composite
Issue Name Symbol 60/Completion GICS Sector Index
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Aastra Technologies AAH Completion Information
Limited Technology
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Allen-Vanguard
Corporation VRS Completion Industrials
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Ballard Power BLD Completion Consumer
Systems Inc. Discretionary
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Breakwater BWR Completion Materials,
Resources Ltd. Diversified Metals
& Mining
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Crystallex International KRY Completion Materials
Corporation
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Tesco Corporation TEO Completion Energy
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Changes to the S&P/TSX Composite Index will also affect the S&P/TSX Capped
Composite Index. Stocks added to or removed from the S&P/TSX Composite Index
will also be added to or removed from the appropriate Global Industry
Classification Standard (GICS) sector index.
S&P/TSX GLOBAL MINING INDEX
ADDITIONS
Issue Name Symbol Exchange
Capstone Mining Corp. CS TSX
Grande Cache Coal Corporation GCE TSX
Western Canadian Coal Corp. WTN TSX
DELETIONS
Issue Name Symbol Exchange
Aurora Energy Resources Inc. AXU TSX
Breakwater Resources Ltd. BWR TSX
Crystallex International Corp. KRY TSX
Frontera Copper Corporation FCC TSX
Guyana Goldfields Inc. GUY TSX
Uranium Resources, Inc. URRE NASDAQ
S&P/TSX GLOBAL GOLD INDEX
DELETIONS
Issue Name Symbol Exchange
Crystallex International Corp. KRY TSX
Guyana Goldfields Inc. GUY TSX
Company additions to and deletions from an S&P index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.
About Standard & Poor's Index Services
Standard & Poor's Index Services, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Its family of indices includes the S&P 500, an index with $1.32 trillion invested and $4.91 trillion benchmarked, and the S&P Global 1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headline indices. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.
About Standard & Poor's
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ContactsTony North(416) 507-3200
sp_index@standardandpoors.com Dave Guarino
(212) 438-1471
dave_guarino@standardandpoors.com
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