Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite and Select Indices

    




 TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2011 /CNW/ -Standard & Poor's will make the following  changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite and Select Indices: 

 Shareholders of Donnybrook Energy. (TSXVN:DEI) approved on November 4,  2011, the Plan of Arrangement whereby the company will spin out certain  non-core oil & gas assets to shareholders. For every share of  Donnybrook Energy held, shareholders will receive 0.025 shares of a new  company named Donnycreek Energy Inc. Donnycreek Energy will trade on  TSX Venture for the first time (the ex-date of the spin-off) on  November 9, 2011, under the ticker symbol "DCK". The spun out shares of  Donnycreek Energy will be added at zero price to the S&P/TSX Venture  Composite and Venture Select Indices after the close of trading on  Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Effective after the close of Wednesday,  November 9, 2011, the shares of Donnycreek Energy will be removed from  the same two indices. 

 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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