New Steel Index on Philadelphia Stock Exchange

Options on the SIG Steel Producers Index, a new index consisting of 15 publicly traded steel company stocks, opened for trade December 22, 2004, on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Trading cash options on a group of steel stocks will enable investors to hedge volatility. The index includes:

• AK Steel Holding (AKS)
• Allegheny Technologies (ATI)
• Carpenter Technology (CRS)
• International Steel Group (ISG)
• Mittal Steel (MT)
• Nucor (NUE)
• Olympic Steel (ZEUS)
• Oregon Steel (OS)
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS)
• Ryerson Tull (RT)
• Schnitzer Steel Industries (SCHN)
• Steel Dynamics (STLD)
• Steel Technologies (STTX)
• United States Steel (X)
• Worthington (WOR)