Amendment To The Quarterly Rebalancing For S&P Latin America 40 Index

Standard & Poor's, is revising the previously announced share update, as part of the quarterly rebalancing for two securities in the S&P Latin America 40 Index. As announced all changes will become effective after the close of business Friday, June 16, 2006. For a complete list of all share updates please see the June 14 announcement in our web site.

Below is a summary of these changes:

Sedol	RIC	Market	Company Name	Shares outstanding as of June 19, 2006
2196286	RIO.N	BRAZIL	Vale R Doce - ON (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce SA-CVRD) ( ADR)	1,499,898,800
2257127	RIO_p.N	BRAZIL	Vale R Doce-PNA (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce SA-CVRD) (ADR)	959,758,200

Please note that there will be no change to the Vale Rio Doce ON shares from its current number.

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