Dow Jones Indexes Further Expanding Blue-Chip Index Family - The Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 Will Be Added To The Dow Jones Country Titans Family

Dow Jones Indexes today announced the launch of the Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 on September 16, 2003. The index is based on blue-chip companies headquartered in South Africa.

Lars Hamich, executive director global business development at Dow Jones Indexes points out, "The index was developed due to the growing importance of the South African market. By adding this first African country as the most advanced emerging market to our country blue-chip index family, we meet market demand for an investable index with a transparent index concept specifically designed to underlie investment products such as funds, exchange-traded funds, structured products and derivatives."

The 30 stocks selected for Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 are the largest and most liquid securities in their market. With a market capitalization of 455.5 billion ZAR/ 60.8 billion U.S. dollars, the index represents 72% of its respective market capitalization (as of June 30, 2003). The Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 index is free-float market capitalization weighted and weights are capped at 10% to prevent dominance by any individual company.

The indexes will be distributed on a real-time basis through major market data vendors, starting on September 16, 2003. Historical data on the Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 index will be available back to December 31, 1991, with a base value of 100.

Further information on the Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 index will be available at the launch date on September 16, 2003 at www.djindexes.com.

The Dow Jones South Africa Titans 30 is part of the Dow Jones Titans series of indexes. The series comprises the Dow Jones Global Titans 50, Dow Jones Sector Titans 30 with 18 global sector indexes, Dow Jones Asian Titans 50, 13 Dow Jones Country Titans indexes (that cover Europe, Asia, and North America), Dow Jones Tiger Titans 50 and the Dow Jones Islamic Titans 100.

The countries already covered in the Dow Jones Country Titans family include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.