ADE Corporation Added to Russell Microcap Index.WESTWOOD, Mass. -- ADE Corporation (Nasdaq: ADEX ADEX Athens Derivatives Exchange (Athens, Greece) ADEX Air Defense Exercise ADEX Advertisement Expenditure ADEX Asociaciã³n de Exportadores (Peru) ) announces that the Company has been added to the newly established Russell Microcap(TM) Index. The Russell Microcap Index is comprised of the smallest 1,000 securities in the Russell 2000(R) Index plus the next 1,000 largest companies based on total market capitalization Total Market Capitalization The total market value of all of a firm's outstanding securities. . ADE Corporation continues to be included in the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000(R) indexes. Russell indexes Russell Indexes US equity index widely used by pension and mutual fund investors that are weighted by market capitalization and published by the Frank Russell Company of Tacoma, Washington. are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. More than $2.5 trillion in assets currently are benchmarked to them. Investment managers who oversee these funds purchase shares of member stocks according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. that company's weighting in the particular index. About ADE Corporation ADE Corporation is a leading supplier of metrology and inspection systems required for production in the silicon wafer, semiconductor device, magnetic data storage and optics manufacturing industries. The Company's systems analyze and report product quality at critical manufacturing process steps for yield enhancement, providing quality certification data that is relied upon by semiconductor wafer, device and computer disk manufacturers. The Company's systems also are used for production measurements in the semiconductor chip fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. process. To learn more about ADE, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.ade.com. |
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