ADVISORY/ State Street Corporation to Make Quarterly Earnings Conference Call Accessible Via the Internet.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 18)

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2000

State Street Corporation announced today its intention to broadcast its third quarter earnings conference call via the Internet. The call will take place on Wednesday, October 18, 2000, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, following the release of State Street's quarterly financial results. The call will be accessible on State Street's investor relations home page, at www.statestreet.com/stockholder. The conference call will also be available via telephone, at +1 719/457-2621. Recorded replays of the earnings conference call will be available on the web site, and by telephone [phone]; confirmation code: 863802), beginning at 2:00 p.m. that day.

With $6.1 trillion in assets under custody and $729 billion under management, State Street Corporation is one of the world's leading specialists in serving institutional investors. Offices are located in the United States, Canada, Chile, Cayman Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, United Arab Emirates, Russia, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. State Street Corporation's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol STT. For more information, visit State Street's web site at www.statestreet.com or call 877/639-7788 (NEWS STT) toll-free in the United States and Canada, or +1 402/573-3644 outside those countries.