Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

TORONTO, Dec. 22 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: 

• The shareholders of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. (TSX:PBG) and Petrominerales Ltd. (TSX:PMG) have approved the Arrangement Agreement whereby Petrobank shareholders will receive Petrobank's proportionate interest in Petrominerales. Shareholders of Petrobank will receive 0.614 common shares of Petrominerales for each common share held. Petrominerales will also change its domicile to Canada. The distributed shares of Petrominerales will be added the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX Completion and Equity Completion and the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Indices. These changes will all be effective after the close of trading on Friday, December 24, 2010

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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