Dow Jones Launches Peru Indices

Dow Jones Indexes has launched the LATixx Peru Government PES Bond and the LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Indexes. The market-cap weighted indexes are designed to measure the performance of the Peruvian government’s local and global issues in PES and USD. Back-tested historical data is available from January 1 2009, with the base date of December 31 2008 and an initial value set to 1,000, Dow Jones says. As of September 30, the LATixx Peru Government PES Bond Index had a year-to-date performance of 3.49%. The LATixx Global Peru Government USD Bond Index rose 16.62% over the same period.