Wiener Börse Launched CECE Sector Indices

On November 22, 2006, Wiener Börse launched four CECE Sector Indices.

• CECE Banking
• CECE Oil & Gas
• CECE Health Care
• CECE Telecom

The CECE Sector Indices are capitalization-weighted price indices consisting of blue chip stocks which are traded on stock exchanges in the region of Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe. Currently the CECE Sector Indices include stocks listed in Bucharest, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Sofia, Warsaw and Zagreb.

Calculated in EUR and disseminated in real-time by Wiener Börse AG, the CECE Sector Indices are designed as tradable indices and used as underlyings for structured products.

The base levels of the CECE Sector Indices were set at 1,000 points on January 3, 2005.

The main features of the CECE Sector Indices are

• Capitalization-weighted price indices.
• Dividend payments are not considered.
• Real-time calculation and dissemination (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CET)
• Quarterly reviews of the calculation parameters.
• Changes to the index composition and market weighting review on a semi annual basis.
• Maximum weighting of 25% of each index constituent.
• Maximum weighting of 40% of each market.
• CECE Sector Indices universe: Only ordinary shares of joint-stock companies domiciled in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republik, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia listed and traded at the local official stock exchange, are eligible for inclusion.
• New index values are triggered by new traded prices in the index members as well as by currency updates, which are taken into consideration every two minutes during the calculation period.

Further information regarding the CECE Sector Indices

• Index-Profile
• Codes data vendors
• Detailed Index Composition: BNK, OIL, HCA, TEL
• Index rules
• Licensing and structured products