Three New Commodity Stocks Added; Four Stocks Deleted from Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index in Quarterly Rebalancing

The Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (TICKER: RVEI) will add three new components, effective 6:00 PM (EST) Friday, June 19, 2009.

New York (PRWEB) June 10, 2009 -- The Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (www.rveindexes.com) (TICKER: RVEI) will add three new components, effective 6:00 PM (EST) Friday, June 19, 2009. Four stocks will be deleted from the index, changing the number of index components to 270. The changes result from the quarterly rebalancing of the index.

Two stocks will be deleted from the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Agricultural Producers Index, changing the number of index components to 34.

Two stocks will be added to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Metals Producers Index, changing the number of index components to 83.

No changes will be made to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Energy Producers Index, maintaining the current number of 122 index components.

No changes will be made to the Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Liquid Index, maintaining the fixed number of 50 index components.

A complete list of constituent changes is available on the RVE Index Family web site at: http://rve.snetglobalindexes.com/media/RVEI%20Q2%202009%20Constituent%20Changes_96038130.pdf

The Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index is a capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index of the most prominent commodity stocks in the world. To be included in the RVEI, stocks must pass multiple screens, including for capitalization, float, exchange listing, share price and turnover. The index is divided into six sectors: a) Energy, b) Agriculture, c) Base and Industrial Metals, d) Forest products, e) Precious Metals and f) Alternatives (Renewable Energy and Water)

Detailed information, including constituent data, rules and price information, on the

Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index is available at www.rveindexes.com. Data is also available through most vendors of financial data.

Index: Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (USD)

TICKER: RVEI

Index: Rogers™-Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (EUR)

TICKER: RVEIE

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