iShares announced today that the iShares 10+ Year Credit Bond ETF
(NYSEArca:CLY) will change its index effective June 30, 2014. CLY’s new
index will be the Barclays U.S. Long Credit Index. The index change
places all of the iShares credit ETFs with Barclays’ indices.
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