Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in S&P United Kingdom 150 Index

New York (PROTEXT) - Standard & Poor's will make the followingchanges in the S&P United Kingdom Index at the close of businesson Monday, November 29, 1999. * Marconi plc will replace General Electric Company plc.General Electric is changing its name to Marconi following thesale of its international aerospace and defense business, MarconiElectronic Systems, to British Aerospace. By divesting Marconi Electronic Systems, Marconi plc'sbusiness will now be concentrated on the communications and hightechnology systems markets. It's investable weight factor will be1.0. The company will be part of the Information TechnologySector. The S&P United Kingdom Index contains 150 constituentsdomiciled in the United Kingdom. The Index provides economicdiversity over 10 industry sectors. The index is calculated real-time by Reuters. Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc., provides financial, economic and investment information andanalytical services to the global financial community. S&Pcalculates and maintains the S&P Global 1200 Index, whichincludes the S&P Euro and Euro Plus for Continental Europe, theS&P/TSE 60 for Canada, the S&P 500 for the U.S., the S&P/TOPIXfor Japan, the S&P Asia Pacific 100, the S&P United Kingdom 150and the S&P Latin America 40. S&P also publishes the S&P MidCap400, S&P SmallCap 600, S&P SuperComposite 1500 and S&P REITComposite for the U.S. and the S&P/TSE Canadian MidCap andS&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap Indices. Over $750 billion is indexedto S&P indices. Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies is a leadinginformation services provider meeting worldwide needs ineducation, business, finance, the professions and government. Thecorporation employs 16,500 people located in more than 400offices in 32 countries. Sales in 1998 were $3.7 billion. Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index donot in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of thecompany. ots Original Text Service: Standard & Poor's Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Carol Levine, CommunicationsManager, Index Services, of Standard & Poor's, 212-438-3534 Website: http://www.spglobal.com

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