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                                      <![CDATA[Secondary Offering]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Moved from S&amp;P MidCap 400]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Regeneron Set to Join the S&amp;P 500; Eagle Materials, CST Brands to Join the S&amp;P MidCap 400; Francesca’s, Northern Oil &amp; Gas to Join the S&amp;P SmallCap 600]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Estimated amount in connection with merger]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO.N) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Life Techologies Corp. (LIFE.OQ) for $76.00 per share in cash. The transaction, which is expected to close in early 2014, is subject to LIFE shareholder and regulatory approvals.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[A Quarterly Publication Dedicated to Index Innovation]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The sub-par U.S. recovery is now approaching its four-year anniversary, and once again, just when we think that the economy is finally gaining some real momentum, along comes a number like last Friday's mediocre employment report.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[As attractive as U.S. bank returns have been recently, it seems that European banks have experienced an equal amount of pain.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The first quarter ended on a happy note, as the S&amp;P 500® broke its all-time high on the last trading day of the quarter.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[The first quarter ended on a happy note, as the S&amp;P 500® broke its all-time high on the last trading day of the quarter.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[4-for-1 stock split ex-date 4/18/13]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Valero Energy Corp. is spinning off its retail business into a separate company to be named CST Brands Inc. Valero will distribute 80 percent of the outstanding shares of CST common stock to Valero's stockholders at the rate of one share of CST common stock for every nine shares of Valero common stock held. S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices will adjust VLO's 5/1 NYSE closing price to account for the value of the spin as follows: Price adjustment to VLO price= [5/1 NYSE closing price of CSTwi divided by 9].]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[In light of the recovery of the DJIA and S&amp;P 500, how have other key indices fared since the depths of the Financial Crisis?]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Index Investment Strategy]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices' Market Attributes series provides market commentary highlighting developments across various asset classes.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[See how the global equity indices performed in March 2013.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[See how the global equity indices performed in March 2013.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Since the mid-1950s, one of the axioms of investment management has been that, in comparison to stocks, bonds are the superior income-generating asset.]]>          
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                <title>A Potential Path To A Rising Interest Rate Environment</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[One year ago, Global Markets Intelligence (GMI) Research was concerned that U.S. economicfundamentals were starting to align against the bond market.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[After an epic run, the S&amp;P 500’s all-time closing high of 1565 is proving tough to breach]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[As we pass the five-year anniversary of the date that JPMorgan Chase originally bid just $2 per share for Bear Stearns in a coordinated policy effort to suppress the budding 2008 financial
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                                      <![CDATA[The sky hasn’t fallen—at least not yet—and that produced smiles on Wall Street in February. The new definition of good news is the lack of bad news, so when the U.S. didn’t go over the financial cliff at year-end, investors celebrated by finally putting some of their money back into the market.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[See how the global equity indices performed in February 2013.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Following the Italian general election results earlier this week, the prospect of a disjointed government and political gridlock in the country injected a large dose of uncertainty into global financial markets.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today the changes in the S&amp;P/ASX 200 index, effective after the close of trading on March 15, 2013 as a result of the March quarterly review.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices today announces revisions to S&amp;P Global Indices, S&amp;P U.S. Indices and Dow Jones Global Indices to be effective with the March quarterly review after the close of trading on Friday, March 15]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Dean Foods (DF.N) is spinning off a portion of its remaining 86% equity interest in WhiteWave Foods to DF shareholders. Both class A and Class B WhiteWave shares will be distributed. S&amp;P Dow Jones will adjust WWAV's IWF and DF's price on the spin date to reflect the transaction. The adjusted closing 5/23 DF price will be set to the NYSE Dean Foods WHEN ISSUED closing price. This when issued price reflects the value of DF post distribution of both WhiteWave class shares.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Gains slow in February as sector leadership broadens to include defensive areas]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[BSE and S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today a strategic partnership to calculate, disseminate, and license the widely followed suite of BSE indices.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[For the third time in 13 years, the S&amp;P 500 Index is attempting to stay above 1,500, a level that was previously reached only briefly in 2007 and 2000. The 1,500 milestone is now associated
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                                      <![CDATA[For the month, 433 of the S&amp;P 500 issues were up (by an average of +7.94%), with 107 of them posting a gain of at least 10%; 65 were down (-4.06%), with three of them off at least 10%.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today that it will update the foreign withholding tax rate for the following countries, effective February 11, 2013. Withholding tax rates are used to calculate all S&amp;P Dow Jones net return indices.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&amp;P 500, S&amp;P MidCap 400 and the S&amp;P SmallCap 600 indices]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Investors raced back to the market in January. They were left with preferential tax rates (capital gains and dividends) following a last-minute year-end tax bill, which only slightly increased tax rates.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Anyone who’s ever read a prospectus knows that “past performance is no guarantee of future results.” The sentence has almost assumed the status of a cliché, but one of the less-appreciated properties of clichés is that they’re true.]]>          
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                <title>Insights: A Quarterly Newsletter Dedicated to Index Innovations January 2013</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[The S&amp;P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, like all of S&amp;P Dow Jones indices, are overseen by committees. Some indices offered by other index providers are described as rules-based without the benefit of an oversight committee, suggesting that rules are somehow better because their indices are untouched by human hands.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Global Markets Intelligence (GMI) Research was asked during a media interview last week if recent stock market performance had more to do with improving U.S. economic fundamentals or the promise of continued monetary accommodation by the Federal Reserve?]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, today announced it has been named “Best Index Provider” in the inaugural MENA Fund Manager Fund Services Awards.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Howard Silverblatt, Senior Index Analyst at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices notes pensions are starting to get in the news, with potential big gains expected, at least after the hit.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices today announced that it has licensed the S&amp;P SMIT 40 Index to Commerzbank AG for the launch of an ETF based upon the Index.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, announced today that it has designed the methodology for two new indices launched today by the Dhaka Stock Exchange.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[We are maintaining a cyclical sector stance based on an ongoing improvement in global economic fortunes that we think should fuel further defensive sector underperformance]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s largest provider of financial market indices, announced today that it has been named Index Provider of the Year in Asia in Asia Asset Management magazine’s 2012 Best of the Best Awards.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[In the past decade or so, a number of seemingly unrelated events have played a significant role in leading the U.S. to where we stand today, in the shadow of the "fiscal cliff."]]>          
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                <title>Market Attributes for Financial Advisors December 2012</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Uncertainty over the fiscal cliff dominated the market moves in December, with each political announcement affecting stocks and moods. Ultimately, 2012 ended with the U.S. technically going over the fiscal cliff for a day.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Indices 2013 Equity Rebalancing Calendar</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Howard Silverblatt, Senior Index Analyst at S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices notes the market was up 13.4% last year and with dividends reinvested the return was a full 16%. Aggravation yes, but a solid gain to show for it.  Dividends posted a record year, with holders receiving 17% more cash in their hands in 2012 than 2011, and regardless of the events in Washington, which is a statement in and of itself, I’m predicting another dividend payment record in 2013.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today that the foreign withholding tax rate for China domestic (A and B shares) will remain at 10%.]]>          
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                <title>U.S. Fiscal Cliff Drama Continues: Act I (Taxes) Transitions To Act II (Spending) Following A Brief Intermission</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[The self-imposed fiscal cliff was supposed to be a hard and fast deadline, intended to force policymakers to address both the revenue and expenditure sides of unsustainable U.S. deficits and debt accumulation.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Global Equity Indices Monthly Update December 2012</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[See how the global equity indices performed in December.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Uncertainty over the fiscal cliff dominated the market moves in December, with each political announcement affecting stocks and moods. Ultimately, 2012 ended with the U.S. technically going over the fiscal cliff for a day.]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P 500 Stock Buybacks Decrease in Third Quarter</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[Company Buyback Activity Erratic in Q3; Mixed Results Seen for Q4]]>          
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                <title>S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes in Withholding Tax Rate for China, Japan, and New Zealand</title>
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today that it will update the foreign withholding tax rate for the following countries, effective Jan 1, 2013.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Despite the apparent stalemate in Washington, we see a fiscal compromise as likely. As such, on December 10 we upgraded Industrials to overweight, joining C. Disc. &amp; H. Care]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices will make the following changes to the S&amp;P 100, 500, MidCap 400 and SmallCap 600 indices after the close of trading on Monday, December 31.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[Delphi Automotive plc (NYSE:DLPH) will replace Titanium Metals Corp. (NYSE:TIE) in the S&amp;P 500 after the close of trading on Friday, December 21.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices announced today the changes in the S&amp;P Asia 50 index, effective after the close of trading on December 21, 2012 as a result of the December quarterly review.]]>          
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                                      <![CDATA[U.S. economic growth is not strong, and anytime this is true, the Global Markets Intelligence (GMI) research group worries that growth could actually become quite weak.]]>          
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