Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index
TORONTO, Oct. 27, 2011 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Thursday, October 27, 2011:
-- Inca Pacific Resources Inc. (TSXVN:IPR) will be removed from
the index. The shares of the company will be delisted from the
TSX Venture Exchange having been acquired by Compania Mineral
Milpo SAA (Lima:MIL).
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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