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Standard & Poor’s Adding Facebook To S&P 500 Index

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Standard & Poor’s will include Facebook’s Class A common stock in the S&P 500 Index from the close of trading on December 20, 2013. The S&P 500 is comprised of 500 common stocks that S&P selects.

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