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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices and the Australia Securities Exchange (ASX) today launched the first four indices in their S&amp;P/ASX Balanced Equity and Bond index series.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today the launch of the S&amp;P Korea Low Volatility Index which seeks to measure the performance of the 50 least volatile stocks in the S&amp;P Korea Broad Market Index (BMI).]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today the launch of the S&amp;P 500® Buyback Index which is designed to measure the performance of the top 100 stocks with the highest buyback ratio in the S&amp;P 500.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today the launch of three new credit spread indices based upon the S&amp;P 500®.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Licensed to SSgA for ETF Development]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[From 28 February, Australia’s equity market volatility benchmark, the S&amp;P/ASX 200 VIX (VIX), will be made available in real-time.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices today announced the launch of S&amp;P GIVI™ Shariah Indices, the first Shariah-compliant indices combining low volatility and an alternative weighting scheme that weight’s a stock by its calculated intrinsic value, rather than by market capitalization.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, announced today the launch of the Dow Jones Townsend Core U.S. REIT Index (the “Index”) – which, designed in collaboration with The Townsend Group, aims to provide risk and return characteristics typical of direct core real estate investments through a basket of liquid publicly-traded REITs.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, announced today the launch of the S&amp;P Merger Arbitrage Index, which seeks to model a risk arbitrage strategy that exploits commonly observed price changes associated with a global selection of publicly announced mergers, acquisitions or other corporate reorganizations.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The Index is designed to reflect a managed-volatility equity strategy that seeks to achieve lower total risk, measured by standard deviation, than the S&amp;P 500 while maintaining similar characteristics.]]>          
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                <title>Pan Asia Low Volatility Index launched by S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Answers Growing Demand for Volatility Strategies]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, TMX Group Launch Preferred Share Laddered and Equal Weight Sector Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices and TMX Group Inc. announced today the launch of three new Canadian indices: the S&amp;P/TSX Preferred Share Laddered index, the S&amp;P/TSX Equal Weight Global Gold index and the S&amp;P/TSX Equal Weight Industrials index.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P GSCI Dynamic Roll Alpha Light Energy Index Launched by S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, announced today the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI Dynamic Roll Alpha Light Energy index]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices Adds Two Indices to the S&amp;P Low Volatility Family</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[New Indices Licensed to Invesco PowerShares for ETF Development]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Index Series Licensed to SSgA for Product Development]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices today announced the launch of the S&amp;P SMIT 40 Index, designed to measure the performance of 40 leading companies from four emerging markets: South Korea, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey (“SMITs”).]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Thematic Index Licensed to Bank of China Investment Management]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Index Licensed to EGShares for ETF Launch]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P 500 Low Volatility High Dividend Index Launched by S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Index Licensed to Invesco PowerShares for ETF Development]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices and Deutsche Bank Co-brand Offshore Renminbi Bond Index</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices and Deutsche Bank today announced that they have co-branded the offshore renminbi bond index, S&amp;P-DB ORBIT Index, to offer market participants an important measure of the fast growing offshore renminbi (RMB) denominated fixed income market.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today the launch of a new index within the S&amp;P GIVI™ family: the S&amp;P GIVI Global Growth Markets Tilt index, which is designed to combine growth and value characteristics with a macroeconomic factor.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices Calculates New Custom Indexing Concept for RIA Lunt Capital</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Lunt Capital Management an independent registered investment advisory firm has selected S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices to be the custom calculation agent for the Lunt Capital High Beta Low Volatility Rotation Index.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Europe 350 Low Volatility Index Launched by S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Measures the Performance of the 100 Least Volatile Stocks In the S&amp;P Europe 350 Index]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The first index of its kind in the Chinese market to combine low volatility and an alternative weighting scheme that weights a stock by its calculated intrinsic value, rather than market-capitalization.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Indices Take into Account Market and Longevity Risk Sensitivity]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Colombo, June 26, 2012 – S&amp;P Indices announces today the launch of the S&amp;P Sri Lanka 20, which has been jointly developed with the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE).]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Meets the Increasing Demand for a Shariah-Compliant Benchmark in Islamic Countries]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Licenses Index to Global X Funds for Planned ETF]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches BRIC High Yield Index; Risk Control Version Also Launched</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[New Indices Provide Access to High Yielding Securities from BRIC Countries]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg; product line with the launch of additional S&amp;P GSCI 1 Month and 3 Month Forward sector indices.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Italy LargeMidCap Capped Index Offers New Level of Exposure, Innovation for Italian Investors; Risk Control Version Also Launched]]>          
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                <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate>  
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                                      <![CDATA[First Australian Index Provider to Offer Intraday, Multiple Currency Pricing for Fixed Interest Indices]]>          
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                <title>New S&amp;P Indices Offer Diversified Style Benchmarks for the Israeli Market</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Israel BMI Capped Style Indices Licensed to KSM for the Creation of Exchange Traded Notes]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices announced today that it has launched the S&amp;P 500 Equal Weight High Technology Index and has licensed the Index to Fortune SG Fund Management Co., Ltd for potential exchange traded products targeting the Chinese market.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices and TMX Group Inc. announced today that they are launching two new indices designed to provide market participants with unique measuring tools for specific stock characteristics within the S&amp;P/TSX Composite, the principal broad market measure for the Canadian equity markets.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg; Soybean Oil Index</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg; product line with the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI Soybean Oil index.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices, ISDA Launch Two New CDS Indices Measuring the Credit Quality of U.S. and European Finance Sectors</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) announced today the launch of the S&amp;P/ISDA CDS U.S. Financials Select 10 Index and the S&amp;P/ISDA CDS European Banks Select 15 Index.]]>          
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                                                                    <category>Professional Profile</category>
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches Global Intrinsic Value Index; Licenses S&amp;P GIVI to Goldman Sachs Asset Management</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices announced today the launch of the S&amp;P GIVI&amp;#8482 ("S&amp;P Global Intrinsic Value Index"), combining low volatility and an alternative weighting scheme that weights a stock by its calculated intrinsic value, rather than market capitalization.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  Dynamic Roll Equal Weight Select Index</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  product line with the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI Dynamic Roll Equal Weight Select Index.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  Light Energy Forward Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  product line with the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI Light Energy Forward indices.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches UK, Eurozone Versions of its High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Licenses State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) to Launch SPDR ETFs Based Upon the Indices]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches International Developed and Emerging Markets High Beta Indices</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Invesco PowerShares Licensed to Launch ETFs Based on New Indices]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  Inverse Agriculture Select Index</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  product line with the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI Inverse Agriculture Select Index.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches Dynamic Rebalancing Risk Control Index Series</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Direxion Licensed to Launch Exchange Traded Funds Linked to the Indices]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Announces Latin America ADR Index</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Designed to provide exposure to the Latin American equity market]]>          
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                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>  
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                                      <![CDATA[Indices to Serves as Basis for Future PowerShares Exchange Traded Funds]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has launched the S&amp;P AFE 40, an index designed to measure the performance of 40 leading companies from the Pan-Arab region. S&amp;P Indices partnered with the Arab Federation of Exchanges (AFE) to create the Index which includes companies from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches Risk Control Versions of the S&amp;P GSCI, Dynamic Roll Index</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Commodities Risk Control Index Series Provides Access to the Commodity Markets While Seeking to Control Risk]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices Launches S&amp;P 500 VIX Futures Long/Short Strategy Index Series</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Index Series Licensed by S&amp;P Indices to VelocityShares for ETPs]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Licensed at Launch for Chinese Investors]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index to Serve as the Primary Measure of Equity Market Performance in Andean Region]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index to Serve as the Primary Measure of Equity Market Performance in Andean Region]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices is pleased to announce that it will launch five new Select Industry Indices drawn from the Financial Services sector in September 2011.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Indices Target Best Qualified Income Performers in Asia]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P Shariah Index Series with the addition of the S&amp;P Africa Frontier Shariah Index and S&amp;P Pan Africa Shariah Index.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Tracks Key REITs in Asia Pacific&amp;rsquo;s Most Developed Real Estate Markets]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Provides new level of innovation for investors to measure market performance]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Next Emerging 40 Licensed to Barclays Capital for the Creation of Structured Investments]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Measures Performance of the World&amp;rsquo;s Leading Petrochemical and Energy Companies]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has launched the S&amp;P Systematic Global Macro Index (SGMI), which aims to reflect price trends of highly liquid global futures, representing the general level of volatility taken by managers in the global macro and managed futures/Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) space.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Licenses Blackrock to List ETF Based Upon the Index]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P Frontier Markets Index Series with the addition of the S&amp;P Nigeria Select.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  product line with the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI Inverse 1-Month Forward Capped Sector Equal Weight Composite Index.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Newest S&amp;P Benchmark Captures Largest Stocks in China, India, and South East Asia]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Licenses Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited to Create Investment Strategies Based on the Indices]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[New Index Based Upon India&amp;rsquo;s Headline Large-Cap Benchmark, the S&amp;P CNX Nifty]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P Global BMI index series with the addition of LargeCap and MidCap size range indices.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Indices has expanded the S&amp;P GSCI&amp;reg;  product line with the launch of the S&amp;P GSCI 2-Month Forward single commodity and sector sub-indices.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Only U.S. Treasury Bond Index to Use Pricing From BGC Market Data LP]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The 'CIVETS&amp;rsquo; - Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey &amp; South Africa - combine potential for growth and accelerating global investor interest]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Licenses Indices to PowerShares for Forthcoming ETFs]]>          
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