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Cliffs Added to S&P 500 Index
12/15/2009 - Standard & Poor’s will add Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.’s shares to the S&P 500 Index effective December 18 after the market closes. Cliffs also will be added to the S&P 500 GICS Steel Sub-Industry index.
Standard & Poor’s will add Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.’s shares to the S&P 500 Index effective December 18 after the market closes. Cliffs also will be added to the S&P 500 GICS Steel Sub-Industry index.
Criteria for selection include being representative of the indicator’s market sector and market capitalization range.
“We are gratified by our selection to the S&P 500. We believe this testifies to the value Cliffs has created for its shareholders as it continues to execute a strategy designed to achieve scale in the mining industry and serve the world's largest and fastest growing steel markets,” said Laurie Brlas, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Cliffs.
Cliffs Natural Resources, an international mining and natural resources company, is the largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America, a major supplier of direct-shipping lump and fines iron ore out of Australia, and a significant producer of metallurgical coal. The company is organized through three geographic business units: The North American business unit is comprised of six iron ore mines owned or managed in Michigan, Minnesota, and Eastern Canada, and two coking coal mining complexes located in West Virginia and Alabama. The Asia Pacific business unit is comprised of two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia and a 45% economic interest in a coking and thermal coal mine in Queensland, Australia. The South American business unit includes a 30% interest in the Amapá Project, an iron ore project in the state of Amapá in Brazil.
