NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Warsaw Stock Exchange will be added to the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index, increasing the total number of index components to 25, Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, announced today.
The Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index measures the performance of all publicly traded stock exchanges and trading floors.
The addition of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (Poland:WSE) to the index, which followed a regular quarterly review, will be effective after the close of trading on September 16, 2011.
As of September 7, 2011, the float-adjusted market capitalization of the Dow Jones Global Exchanges Index was US$102.4 billion; the float-adjusted market capitalization for the Warsaw Stock Exchange is US$395.2 million.
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