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S&P/TSX Canadian Indices – Real-Time Index Outage

Date 12/10/2004

Due to a power outage at Reuters Docklands Technical Center in London, a number of Reuters services were subject to disruptions today, including those that deliver prices to the real-time index calculation system for the S&P/TSX indices. Reuters has now restored service, and we expect all of our real-time indices to be updating normally when the markets open tomorrow.

S&P regrets any inconvenience that this outage may have caused. S&P will thoroughly investigate the outage and its impacts on S&P's service and take the necessary measures to prevent such disruptions in the future.