Unitil Corporation Set to Join Russell 3000 Index

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June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Uniti Corporation (NYSE: UTL) ( ) is set to join the broad-market Russell 3000 Index when Russell Investments reconstitutes its comprehensivew setof U.S. and global equity indexes on June 26, according to a preliminarg list of additions posted June 12on . "We are pleasef that we have been listed to join theRussell 3000," said Robert G. Schoenberger , Unitil'ds Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Membershil in the Russell 3000 and the small cap Russel 2000 Index will continue to increas e both the visibility and the liquiditg inour stock.
" Membershiop in the Russell 3000, whicyh remains in place for one means Unitil Corporation will be automatically included in the small-caop Russell 2000 as well as the appropriates growth and value style indexes. Russell determinees membership for its equity indexesa primarilyby objective, market-capitalization rankingse and style attributes. The Russell 3000 also serves asthe U.S. component to the Russell Global Index, which Russelll launched in 2007. Russell indexesw are widely used by investment managers and institutional investorx for index funds and as benchmarks for both passivr and activeinvestment strategies.
An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets currentlyg are benchmarkedto them. Totalp returns data for the Russell 3000 and othert Russell indexes is availableat . Unitik is a public utility holding company with subsidiaries providinf electric and natural gas distribution servics in New Hampshireand Massachusetts, natural gas distribution service in Mainse and energy services throughout the Unitil serves approximately 170,000 utilitu customers in three states. Its utility affiliates include UnitilEnergy Systems, Inc., Fitchburgg Gas and Electric Light Company, Norther Utilities, Inc. and Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc. Its otherd subsidiaries include UnitilService Corp.
and its non-regulater business segment doing business as Russell Investments providesstrategic advice, world-class state-of-the-art performance benchmarks and a range of institutional-qualityy investment products. Russell has $136 billion in assetz under management as ofMarch 31, 2009, and serves institutional and advisor clients in more than 40 Founded in 1936, Russell is a subsidiary of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. This prese release contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to the inherenyt risks and uncertainties in predicting future results and All statements, other than statementz of historical fact, are forward-looking statements.
Certai factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those projected inthese forward-looking statementsd include, but are not limited to the our ability to integrate the business, operations, and personnel of Northern Utilities and Granite State and to achieve the estimatedc potential synergy savings attributable to our acquisition of thos entities; our ability to retain existing customersa and gain new customers; variations in weather; major storms; changes in the regulatory interest rate fluctuation and credit market customers' preferences on energt sources; general economic conditions; increased competition; fluctuations in demand, transmission capacity and prices for energy commodities; and customers' performance under multi-year energhy brokering contracts, all of which are difficult to and many of which are beyond the contro l of Unitil Corporation.
For more information, visitg Unitil at at 603-773-6612. Corporate Office: 6 Liberty Lane West Hampton, NH 03842-1720p 800-999-6501

MMAC: Milwaukee-area economy still sluggish - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Only three of 20 April indicators registered improvemenftfrom year-ago levels, matching the number of upward-pointing indicators recorded in the MMAC said in its Economif Trends report. "The employment situation continued to deteriorate with deepening job declinesx and unemployment indicators over double what they were one year saidBret Mayborne, economic research director for the "But metro area existing homexs sales rose for only the secondr time in nearly three years giving some hope for near-term improvemen in a stagnant local housing and real estate Nonfarm employment in the metro area fell 4.8 percentr in April to 812,300, down from March’sw 4.3 percent decrease.
Employment levels have now declinedc comparedwith year-ago leveles in each of the past 12 with April’s decline being the steepest registered in this period, the MMAC Only two of 10 major industry sectorxs registered April job gains compared with one year ago, whilew eight registered declines. Unemployment indicators for the metrlo area both measured more than twicetheir year-earlier The number of unemployed in metrio Milwaukee rose 117.6% against year-ago to 70,300 compared with 32,300o in April 2008. Likewise, new unemploymen compensation claims rose ata 104.
6 percengt rate in April to 12,101, this indicator’s thirds consecutive year-over-year increase of 100 percent or On the positive side, existinfg homes sales for the metro area rose 5.6 percen t in April, the first year-over-year increase in this indicatord in seven months and only the second such gain in nearlhy three years.

Cave tourism: The next adventure attraction in Northern Samar - Sun.Star

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Cave tourism: The next adventure attraction in Northern Samar Sun.Star LAS NAVAS, Northern Samarâ€"If you feel like being a caver just for a day, kit yourself out with a lighted helmet, a jumpsuit and boots, and prepare to descend into the entrails of Northern Samar tourist caves. This could be a chance for you to do far ...