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

    




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

 The shares of SkyWest Energy Corp. (TSXVN:SKW) will trade under the new  name Marquee Energy Ltd. following the completion of a Plan of  Arrangement. The new ticker symbol will be "MQL" and the new CUSIP  number will be 57142R 10 9. There will be no change in the  capitalization of the company at this time in either the S&P/TSX  Venture Composite Index or the S&P/TSX Venture Select Index. This  change is effective after the close of trading on Thursday, December 8,  2011. 

 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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 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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