ZURICH, Switzerland, May 28, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STOXX Limited, the leading provider of European equity indexes, today announced that 18 Dow Jones STOXX Americas 600 Supersector Indexes have been licensed to Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG to serve as underlying for open-end index tracker certificates for the first time.
"The Dow Jones STOXX Americas 600 Supersector Indexes allow market participants to track the performance of leading companies in Canada and the United States by market segment. Following the transparent and rules based methodology of the Dow Jones STOXX Global 1800 Supersector index series, the indexes facilitate consistent comparisons of sector performance across Asia, Europe and the Americas. As investors seek to diversify internationally, our reliable regional indexing approach clearly gains in importance," said Ricardo Manrique, chief executive officer, STOXX Ltd.
The Dow Jones STOXX Americas 600 Supersector Indexes represent the largest Canada and U.S. based companies in 19 Supersectors. These Supersectors as defined by the Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) are: Automobiles & Parts, Banks, Basic Resources, Chemicals, Construction and Materials, Financial Services, Food & Beverage, Health Care, Industrial Goods & Services, Insurance, Media, Oil & Gas, Personal Household Goods, Real Estate, Retail, Technology, Telecommunications, Travel & Leisure, Utilities.
The Dow Jones STOXX Americas 600 Supersector Indexes are available in a price and a total return version and calculated in euro and U.S. dollars. The indexes are reviewed quarterly in March, June, September and December. Historical data is available back to December 31, 1991.
Further information on Dow Jones STOXX Indexes is available at www.stoxx.com.
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