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AUY News Yamana Gold Inc. Celebrates its Transfer from Amex to the NYSE

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE:NYX), welcomed Yamana Gold Inc. (NYSE:AUY), a transfer from the American Stock Exchange and a global leader in the production and exploration of gold and copper-gold development properties, to the world’s leading equity market.

Yamana Gold Inc.’s listing positions the company among NYSE-listed leaders in the gold mining industry: Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE: ABX), Goldcorp Inc. (NYSE: GG), AngloGold Ashanti Limited (NYSE: AU), Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI) and Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE: HMY).

“We are proud to welcome Yamana Gold Inc. to our family of listed companies,” said NYSE Group, Inc. President & co-COO Catherine R. Kinney. “Yamana Gold is an outstanding addition to the 83 leading Canadian companies listed on the NYSE. We look forward to our partnership with the company and to providing them with the superior market quality and unsurpassed brand visibility that issuers from around the world have come to expect from listing on the New York Stock Exchange.”

“We are very pleased to be listed on the NYSE, the pre-eminent stock exchange in the world,” said Yamana Gold Inc. President & CEO Peter Marrone. “Yamana has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years and for us to qualify for listing on this premier exchange further validates how we have grown into the leading intermediate gold producer.”

Yamana Gold Inc. marks the first non-U.S. listing and transfer to NYSE Group, Inc. year-to-date.

To celebrate this special occasion, Yamana Gold Inc. President & CEO Peter Marrone rang today’s Opening Bell.

About Yamana Gold Inc.

Yamana is a Canadian gold producer with significant gold and copper-gold production, gold development stage properties, exploration properties, and land positions in Brazil, Argentina and Central America. Yamana expects to produce gold at intermediate company production levels in 2007 in addition to significant copper production. Company management plans to continue to build on this base through the advancement of its exploration properties and by targeting other gold consolidation opportunities in Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America.

About NYSE Group, Inc

NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE:NYX) operates two securities exchanges: the New York Stock Exchange LLC (the “NYSE”) and NYSE Arca, Inc. (formerly known as the Pacific Exchange). NYSE Group is a leading provider of securities listing, trading and market data products and services. In 2006, on an average trading day, 2.3 billion shares, valued at $86.8 billion, were traded on the exchanges of the NYSE Group.

The NYSE is the world’s largest and most liquid cash equities exchange. The NYSE provides a reliable, orderly, liquid and efficient marketplace where investors buy and sell listed companies’ common stock and other securities. On December 31, 2006, the operating companies listed on the NYSE represented a total global market capitalization of $25.0 trillion.

NYSE Arca, Inc. operates the former ArcaEx®, the first open, all-electronic stock exchange in the United States, which has a leading position in trading exchange-traded funds and exchange-listed securities. NYSE Arca, Inc. is also an exchange for trading equity options. NYSE Arca, Inc.’s trading platforms provide customers with fast electronic execution and open, direct and anonymous market access.

NYSE Regulation, an independent not-for-profit subsidiary, regulates member organizations through the enforcement of marketplace rules and federal securities laws. NYSE Regulation also ensures that companies listed on the NYSE and NYSE Arca meet their financial and corporate governance listing standards.

For more information on NYSE Group, go to: www.nyse.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on NYSE Group’s current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause NYSE Group’s actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. There can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause NYSE Group’s results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: NYSE Group’s ability to implement its strategic initiatives, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations, government and industry regulation, interest rate risk and U.S. and global competition, and other factors detailed in NYSE Group’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, these statements are based on a number of assumptions that are subject to change. Accordingly, actual results may be materially higher or lower than those projected. The inclusion of such projections herein should not be regarded as a representation by NYSE Group that the projections will prove to be correct. NYSE Group undertakes no obligation to release any revisions to any forward-looking statements.