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

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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Aug. 11, 2011 /CNW/ - Standard Poor's Canadian Index\n Operations announces the following index changes:\n\n\nFirst Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM) has completed a common share\n issuance resulting from an incentive invitation in connection with\n convertible bonds. The relative weight of First Quantum will increase\n in the SP/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the SP/TSX Equity and\n Capped Equity, the SP/TSX 60, 60 Capped and Equity 60, the SP/TSX\n Capped Diversified Metals Mining, the SP/TSX Capped Materials, the\n SP/TSX Global Mining, the SP/TSX Global Base Metals and the SP/TSX\n Composite Dividend indices to reflect this issuance of First Quantum\n shares. There will be no change to the weight First Quantum in the\n SP/TSX 60 Equal Weight, the SP/TSX Equal Weight Global Base Metals or\n the SP/TSX 60 130/30 Strategy Index. These changes will be effective\n after close on Thursday, August 18, 2011.\n\n\nCompany additions to and deletions from an SP equity index do not in\n any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.\n\n\nAbout SP Indices\nSP Indices, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide\n variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of\n investor needs. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard \n Poor's family of indices, which includes the SP 500, the world's most\n followed stock market index, the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices,\n the leading measure of U.S. home prices, the SP Global BMI, an index\n with approximately 11,000 constituents, the SP GSCI, the industry's\n most closely watched commodities index, and the SP National AMT-Free\n Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal\n bonds. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.\n\n\n","length":1956,"tagName":"div"}]

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