NYSE Introduces Three Sector Indexes - NYSE Energy, Financial And Health Care Indexes To Be Launched Jan. 8 - Four Sub-Indexes Discontinued The New York Stock Exchange on Jan. 8, 2004, will revise its family of NYSE-branded indexes with the introduction of three new sector indexes – the NYSE Energy, Health Care and Financial Indexes. Concurrent with the launch, the NYSE will discontinue the currently available Industrial, Utilities, Financial and Transportation sub-indexes. The move furthers the NYSE’s efforts to provide investors and issuers with more accurate performance measures for NYSE-listed companies.

“We are delighted to announce the addition of three new sector indexes to a diversified family of NYSE-branded indexes,” said Robert McSweeney, senior vice president of competitive position. “The NYSE Energy, Financial and Health Care Indexes measure the aggregate performance of the world's best companies that meet NYSE's high listing requirements with respect to profitability and company size. The differentiated performance of NYSE-listed stocks translates into higher return and lower volatility for the NYSE Sector Indexes relative to their peer sector indexes. Components in each of these indexes also represent a significant portion of the underlying sectors in the U.S. and globally."

The new indexes are subsets of the NYSE Composite Index®, relaunched in January 2003 under a new methodology and recalculated to a base value of 5,000. Components in each of the three new sector indexes are NYSE-listed common stocks that are classified according to the Dow Jones Global Classification Standard.

In addition to the revised NYSE Composite Index, the three new sector indexes join four others in the NYSE family of indexes; the NYSE U.S. 100 Index^SM, NYSE International 100 Index^SM, NYSE World Leaders Index^SM and the NYSE TMT Index^SM, all of which were introduced in June 2002. As of Jan. 8, all NYSE indexes will be calculated and maintained by Dow Jones Indexes.

Index Profiles

NYSE Energy

NYSE Financial

NYSE Health Care

Index Symbol

NYE.ID

NYK.ID

NYP.ID

Market Coverage

· % of total sector mkt cap in US

· % of total sector mkt cap globally

· % of all NYSE-listed stocks

92%

96%

10%

88%

69%

25%

80%

76%

14%

Performance (%)
Index	3-mo	YTD
NYSE Energy	17.7	26.4
S&P 500 Energy	14.6	22.4
DJ US Energy	14.5	22.9

NYSE Financial	15.8	35.4
S&P 500 Financial	11.1	27.9
DJ US Financial	11.2	28.8

NYSE Health Care	11.0	18.5
S&P 500 Health Care	8.0	13.3
DJ US Health Care	8.4	17.8

Please click on the following for more information on NYSE Sector Indexes:

Fact Sheet (.pdf)
Index History (.xls)
Component List (.pdf)
Methodology Guide (.pdf)

For more information on the NYSE family of indexes go to www.nyseindexes.com