Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index
TORONTO, June 11 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, June 11, 2010:
- Boyuan Construction Group Inc. (TSXVN:BOY) will be removed from the index. The company will graduate to TSX where it will trade under the same ticker symbol. - Triton Energy Corp. (TSXVN:TEZ) will trade under the new name Waldron Energy Corporation. The new ticker symbol will be "WDN" and the new CUSIP number will be 931344 10 5. The shares will be consolidated on a 1-for-10 basis.
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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Standard & Poor's Index Services, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P Global 1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headline indices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents and the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely-watched commodities index. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.
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For further information: Tony North, (416) 507-3204, [email protected]; Dave Guarino, 1 212 438 1471, [email protected]
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