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

NEW YORK (PROTEXT) - Standard & Poor's will make the followingchange in the S&P United Kingdom Index after the close ofbusiness on Wednesday November 24, 1999: COLT Telecom plc will replace Orange plc following theannouncement that Mannesmann AG's acquisition of Orange wasdeclared wholly unconditional. COLT Telecom plc is a telecommunications company operating anintegrated IP based network linking financial and businesscenters throughout Europe. COLT's investable weight factor willbe 0.73. The company will be added to the TelecommunicationServices Sector. 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. Companyadditions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in anyway reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.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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