Dow Jones Global Indexes Adds Greece and Portugal Stock Markets.

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1997--Two new country indexes, the Dow Jones Greece Stock Index and the Dow Jones Portugal Stock Index, will join the Dow Jones Global Indexes on Oct. 1, Dow Jones & Company announced today.

With the addition of the 29-stock Greece Index and the 19-stock Portugal Index, the Dow Jones Global Indexes include more than 3,000 separate indexes, tracking stock prices for more than 2,900 companies in 31 countries, 10 global regions and nine market sectors containing 121 industry groups.

The Greece and Portugal Stock Indexes, like all the Dow Jones Global Indexes, have Dec. 31, 1991, as their base date, which is the date their baseline value is 100.

"We are constantly evaluating the world's stock markets, looking to add countries that are accommodating of individual investors world-wide," said John Prestbo, editor, Dow Jones Global Indexes. "We are pleased to add Greece and Portugal; with these latest additions the DJGI cover all of Western Europe."

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