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Sep 09, 2010

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STOXX® Europe 600 Sector Index Futures and Options: Changed Methodology for Index Calculation

In the course of the regular annual index verification STOXX Ltd. announced that weighting of the STOXX® Europe 600 Supersector indexes will be capped with effect from September 20, 2010. Effective September 20, 2010, all STOXX® Europe 600 Sector index options and futures tradable at Eurex will refer to these adjusted (capped) indexes. ISINs and product codes of the underlying indexes will remain unchanged.

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