VALE : approves Securities Trading Policy

Vale approves Securities Trading Policy

 

Rio de Janeiro, January 19, 2011 - Vale S.A. (Vale) announces that its Board of Directors approved the new Vale's Securities Trading Policy, which replaces the current policy approved on November 13, 2002.

 

 

 

For further information, please contact:

[phone]

Roberto Castello Branco: [e-mail]

Viktor Moszkowicz: [e-mail]

Carla Albano Miller: [e-mail]

Andrea Gutman: [e-mail]

Fernando Frey: [e-mail]

Marcio Loures Penna: [e-mail]

Samantha Pons: [e-mail]

Thomaz Freire: [e-mail]

 

 

This press release may contain statements that express management's expectations about future events or results rather than historical facts. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements, and Vale cannot give assurance that such statements will prove correct. These risks and uncertainties include factors: relating to the Brazilian and Canadian economy and securities markets, which exhibit volatility and can be adversely affected by developments in other countries; relating to the iron ore and nickel business and its dependence on the global steel industry, which is cyclical in nature; and relating to the highly competitive industries in which Vale operates. For additional information on factors that could cause Vale's actual results to differ from expectations reflected in forward-looking statements, please see Vale's reports filed with the Brazilian Comissão de Valores Mobiliários and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Vale approves Securities Trading Policy:
http://hugin.info/144918/R/1480947/416312.pdf

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