Standard & Poor’s Announces Changes In S&P/TOPIX150 And S&P Japan 500 Indices

Standard & Poor’s will make the following changes in the S&P/TOPIX150 and S&P Japan 500 Indices:

• Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. (Japan, SEDOL: 6640284, GICS: Financials, GICS Code: 40203020), a member of the S&P/TOPIX150 and S&P Japan 500 indices, IWF will be updated to 0.4 due to the successful tender offer by Citigroup.

S&P Japan 500 and S&P/TOPIX150 – May 9th 2007 after the market close
S&P Index	Company	New Shares	New IWF
S&P/TOPIX150	Nikko Cordial Securities Inc.	No change	0.40