Monday, September 24, 2012

Financial Products News #2012 - 69
NASDAQ OMX to Disseminate New Russell Geographic Exposure Indexes on RussellTick Effective September 28, 2012

Markets Impacted:

  • All Markets

Data Feeds Impacted:

  • RussellTick

Contact Information:

What you need to know:

  • NASDAQ OMX, on behalf of Russell Investments, will disseminate new Russell Geographic Exposure Indexes on Friday, September 28, 2012 on RussellTickTM.

What are the new indexes?

The Russell Geographic Exposure ("GeoExposure") Index Series is a modified market cap weighted index series designed to track the performance of companies with significant revenue exposure to targeted geographic regions or countries. These indexes provide investors with deeper insight into a company's performance, risks, and growth opportunities through knowledge of its geographic market and economic exposures as determined by the geographic breakdown of its revenue.

How will the indexes be disseminated?

Effective Friday, September 28, 2012, data recipients will receive real-time index information from the proprietary RussellTick data feed.

NASDAQ OMX will identify these indexes via the following data elements in RussellTick:

Index Identifier Index Name Currency Dissemination Frequency Session ID Originator ID
RU1GEOEXE Russell 1000 EM GeoExposure Index EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"
RULGEOEXE Russell Developed LC EM GeoExposure Index EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"
RUEGEOEXE Russell Dev Europe LC EM GeoExposure Index EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"
RUXNGEOE Russell Dev ex-NA LC EM GeoExposure Index EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"
RULGEONE Russell Dev LC EM GeoExposure Index Net EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"
RUEGEONE Russell Dev Europe LC EM GeoExposure Net EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"
RUXNGEONE Russell Dev ex-NA LC EM GeoExposure Net EUR 5-second intervals "A" "RG"

NASDAQ OMX will also support the following directory messages on RussellTick:

  • Index End of Day Summary (Category A - Type B): Disseminated at the end of the U.S. and European trading session to relay closing index summary data.
  • Index Directory (Category A - Type C): Disseminated at the start of each day to relay basic index information.

For a full list of the covered indexes on the RussellTick data feed, please click here.

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