Effective with the opening of trading Monday, December 22, 2003, Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Canada) will replace Quebecor World Inc. (Canada) in the Dow Jones Canada Titans 40. Insurance Australia Group Ltd. (Australia) will replace CSR Ltd. (Australia) in the Dow Jones Australia Titans 30 Index.
Both Quebecor World Inc. and CSR Ltd. are being deleted because of the "Early Removal Rule." The rule is applied when a Titans component is not among the 60 largest companies in the DJGI country index when ranked by free-float market capitalization at the conclusion of a regular quarterly review. Normally, changes are made to the Dow Jones Country Titan indexes annually in March. Among the reasons for extraordinary changes is the "Early Removal Rule".
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
