Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in S&P Indices.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 1999--

Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P 500 and S&P MidCap 400 Indices:

-- Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY), an S&P MidCap 400 component,

will replace BankBoston Corp. (NYSE:BKB) in the S&P 500 Index

after the close of trading on Tuesday, September 21, 1999. Fleet

Financial Group (NYSE:FLT), an S&P 500 component, is acquiring

BankBoston Corp. in a transaction anticipated to close on that

date. Immediately after the acquisition, Fleet Financial Group

will change its name to Fleet Boston Corp. (NYSE:FLT). DQE, Inc.

(NYSE:DQE) will replace Bed Bath & Beyond in the S&P MidCap 400

Index.

Bed Bath & Beyond is a nationwide chain of superstores selling better quality domestics merchandise and home furnishings. The company, headquartered in Union, New Jersey, will be added to the S&P 500 Retail (Specialty) industry group.

DQE, Inc. is a multi-utility delivery and services company. Its subsidiaries are: Duquesne Light Company, AquaSource, Duquesne Ent., DQE Energy Services, DQEnergy Partners, and Montauk Inc. The company, headquartered in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 Electric Companies industry group. -0-

     Following is a summary of the announced changes:

              S&P 500 INDEX -- September 21, 1999

                                     ECONOMIC               INDUSTRY
                   COMPANY            SECTOR                  GROUP
 ADDED      Bed Bath & Beyond   Consumer Cyclicals   Retail (Specialty)
DROPPED     BankBoston Corp.      Financials     Banks (Major Regional)

          S&P MIDCAP 400 INDEX -- September 21, 1999

                                  ECONOMIC             INDUSTRY
                COMPANY            SECTOR                GROUP
 ADDED       DQE, Inc.            Utilities       Electric Companies
DROPPED  Bed Bath & Beyond   Consumer Cyclicals    Retail (Specialty)

Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., provides financial, economic and investment information and analytical services to the global financial community. S&P calculates and maintains the S&P Global Index, which includes the S&P Euro and Euro Plus for Continental Europe, the S&P/TSE 60 for Canada, the S&P 500 for the U.S., the S&P/TOPIX 150 for Japan, and new components under construction for Asia/Pacific, U.K. and Latin America. S&P also publishes the S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, S&P SuperComposite 1500 and S&P REIT Composite for the U.S. and the S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap and S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap Indices. Over $700 billion is indexed to S&P indices.

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Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.