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Invesco PowerShares Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary Of PowerShares QQQ

By Grace Cheng on March 10, 2009 | More Posts By Grace Cheng | Author's Website

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announces the 10-year anniversary of the PowerShares QQQTM Portfolio [[QQQQ]].

“Since trading began on March 10, 1999, the PowerShares QQQTM has become one of the most actively traded securities in the world, fostering wide-scale acceptance of the ETF structure among institutions, traders and retail investors,” said Bruce Bond, president and CEO of Invesco PowerShares. “Today we are proudly celebrating with the NASDAQ OMX Group the success of this landmark ETF.”

PowerShares QQQTM has maintained an average daily trading volume of over 92 million shares, making it the most traded equity security in the world since its inception.1 The PowerShares QQQTM, formerly known as “NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock®“, is based on the NASDAQ-100 Index®. The Index includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market based on market capitalization. The PowerShares QQQTM represents companies across major industry groups such as information technology, healthcare, consumer discretionary and staples, industrials, materials and telecommunication services. The portfolio is rebalanced quarterly and reconstituted annually.

Effective March 21, 2007, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. transferred sponsorship of QQQ to Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, and the NASDAQ-100 Index Tracking Stock® was renamed PowerShares QQQTM. Today, PowerShares QQQTM continues to track 100 of the largest, most innovative non-financial companies listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market.

PowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ: QQQQ) -Top 30 holdings as of 03/02/09

Ticker Name Portfolio Weighting Sector
AAPL Apple Inc. 11.25% Information Technology
QCOM QUALCOMM Inc. 6.76% Information Technology
MSFT Microsoft Corp. 4.99% Information Technology
GOOG Google Inc. (Cl A) 4.92% Information Technology
GILD Gilead Sciences Inc. 4.10% Health Care
ORCL Oracle Corp. 3.37% Information Technology
TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (ADS) 3.21% Health Care
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc. 3.09% Information Technology
INTC Intel Corp. 2.47% Information Technology
AMGN Amgen Inc. 2.44% Health Care
RIMM Research In Motion Ltd. 2.15% Information Technology
GENZ Genzyme Corp. 1.98% Health Care
CELG Celgene Corp. 1.98% Health Care
CMCSA Comcast Corp. (Cl A) 1.87% Consumer Discretionary
AMZN Amazon.com Inc. 1.82% Consumer Discretionary
DTV DIRECTV Group Inc. 1.53% Consumer Discretionary
BIIB Biogen Idec Inc. 1.44% Health Care
ADP Automatic Data Processing Inc. 1.22% Information Technology
Symantec Corp. 1.22% Information Technology
ATVI Activision Blizzard Inc. 1.21% Information Technology
APOL Apollo Group Inc. (Cl A) 1.18% Consumer Discretionary
ESRX Express Scripts Inc. 1.04% Health Care
EBAY eBay Inc. 1.03% Information Technology
PCAR Paccar Inc. 0.96% Industrials
COST Costco Wholesale Corp. 0.96% Consumer Staples
INTU Intuit Inc. 0.92% Information Technology
SBUX Starbucks Corp. 0.92% Consumer Discretionary
YHOO Yahoo! Inc. 0.87% Information Technology
CA CA Inc. 0.87% Information Technology
ADBE Adobe Systems Inc. 0.86% Information Technology

Please see website for complete holdings information. Holdings are subject to change.

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