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TDC A/S (ADR) Share And IWF Change In The S&P ADR Indices

Date 15/07/2005

Standard & Poor’s will make changes in the S&P ADR Indices effective after the close of trading on Tuesday, July 19, 2005:
  • TDC A/S (ADR) (Denmark, NYSE: TLD, CUSIP: 87236N102, Sedol: 2883094) shares will change to 396,750,354 from 432,919,072. The Investable Weight Factor will change to 1.00 from 0.805. TDC cancelled its treasury shares and SBC sold its entire stake in the company. Had these changes occurred on July 14, 2005, the weight of TDC A/S (ADR) in the S&P ADR Index would have changed to 0.154% from 0.136%.
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