Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index

TORONTO, Dec. 31 /CNW/ -- 
TORONTO, Dec. 31 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following
 changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of
 trading on Friday, December 31, 2010: 


    --  Lexam Exploration Inc. (TSXVN:LEX) will be removed from the
        index. The shares of the company have been acquired by VG Gold
        Corp. pursuant to an Arrangement Agreement.



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.


About S&P Indices


S&P Indices, a part of McGraw-Hill Financial, is the world's leading
 index provider maintaining a wide variety of investable and benchmark
 indices. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's
 family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most
 followed stock market index, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices,
 the leading measure of U.S. home prices, the S&P Global BMI, an index
 with approximately 11,000 constituents, the S&P GSCI, the industry's
 most closely-watched commodities index and the S&P National AMT-Free
 Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal
 bonds. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices.


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 is a leading provider of research and analytical tools for investment
 advisors, wealth managers and institutional investors. It deploys the
 latest innovative technology strategies to deliver to customers a
 portfolio of cross-asset analytics, integrated desktop services,
 valuation and index benchmarks and investment recommendations in the
 rapidly growing $16 billion financial information, data and analytics
 market.


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