Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced Iceland, Bulgaria and Romania will be added to the Dow Jones Global Index family. The changes will be effective at the start of trading on Monday, January 1, 2007.
Iceland will be added to the Dow Jones World Index and its subindex, Dow Jones World Developed Markets Index. The other 23 countries currently in the Dow Jones World Developed Index are Australia/New Zealand (considered a single market) Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
Bulgaria and Romania will be added to the Dow Jones World Index and its subindex, the Dow Jones World Emerging Markets Index. The current 21 countries in the Emerging Markets Index are Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Venezuela.
The Dow Jones World Index and its subindexes represent approximately 95% of the underlying float-adjusted market capitalization of countries that are open to foreign investors. To date, the index covers 44 countries.
The indexes are calculated in U.S. dollars and are available in price and total return versions, with a base value of 100 as of Sunday, December 31, 2006. They are reviewed quarterly in March, June, September and December.
Further information on the Dow Jones World, Dow Jones World Developed Markets and Dow Jones World Emerging Markets indexes can be found on the Dow Jones Indexes Web site at http://www.djindexes.com.
