Effective with the opening of trading on Wednesday, April 16, 2003, Wellpoint Health Networks Inc. (U.S.) will replace Pharmacia Corp. (U.S.) in the Dow Jones Healthcare Titans 30 index.
Additionally, effective with the opening of trading on Wednesday, April 16, 2003, Honeywell International Inc. (U.S.) will replace Pharmacia Corp. (U.S.) in the Dow Jones Islamic Titans 100 index.
Pharmacia Corp. (U.S.) is being deleted because of its acquisition by Pfizer Inc. (U.S.), which is a part of the Dow Jones Healthcare Titans 30 index.
The detailed methodology for each index is published in the indexes' rulebooks accessible on the Dow Jones Indexes web site at http://www.djindexes.com
Dow Jones Indexes is a premier global provider of investable indexes, including the Dow Jones Averages, the Dow Jones Global Titans 50, the Pan-European Dow Jones STOXX Indexes, the Dow Jones Asian Titans 50, the Dow Jones Sector Titans 30, the Dow Jones Country Titans Indexes. Dow Jones Indexes is part of Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information.
In addition to Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.
