Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index
February 01 2011 - 5:17PM
PR Newswire (Canada)
TORONTO, Feb. 1 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, Feb. 1 /CNW/ - Standard &
Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture
Composite Index after the close of trading on Tuesday, February 1,
2011: -- Western Lithium USA Corporation (TSXVN:WLC) will be
removed from the index. The company will graduate to trade on the
TSX under the same ticker symbol. -- The shares of PCI-1 Capital
Corp. (TSXVN:ICC) will trade under the new name Curis Resources
Ltd. The new ticker symbol will be "CUV" and the new CUSIP number
will be 23127B 10 5. There is no consolidation of capital. 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.
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