S&P Latin America 40 Index will use only local pricing for all its Argentine constituents. The changes are as follow:
- Replace Petrobras Energia Part – B (ADR) (Argentina, NYSE: PZE, Sedol: 2540872) with and Petrobras Energia Part – B (Argentina, RIC: PCH.BA, Sedol: 2539999). The new number of shares will be 2,132,043,390.
- Replace Tenaris (ADR) (Argentina, NYSE:TS, Sedol: 2167367) with Tenaris (Argentina, RIC: TENA.BA, Sedol: 2172402). The new shares will be 1,180,287,874.
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