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Standard & Poor’s Announces Quarterly Rebalancing For The S&P ADR Indices

Date 14/06/2006

As part of the S&P Global 1200 IWF and share rebalancing, Standard & Poor’s will make changes in the IWF and number of ADRs used for the purpose of calculating the S&P ADR Indices. The changes will be effective at the close of business on Friday, June 16, 2006. The following link contains additional details about the changes:

S&P ADR Share and IWF Changes

Along with the standard rebalancing changes, the following change will take place in the indices (and is reflected in the rebalancing files):

  • Goldcorp Cl.A (US) (Canada, NYSE: GG, CUSIP: 380956409, Sedol: 2676636) shares will increase by 77,252,121 to 417,864,530. The share increase reflects the early exercise of warrants.

Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.

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