NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) March 24, 2010--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that it has lowered its fund credit quality on two BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) funds: iShares S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond Fund and iShares S&P/Citigroup 1-3 Year International Treasury Bond Fund to 'A+f' from 'AAf'. The volatility rating remains unchanged at 'S4'. We lowered the credit quality ratings because each fund has about 4.5% of its total assets exposed to bonds rated 'BBB'; these bonds remain eligible investments for the S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond Index and the S&P/Citigroup International 1-3 Year Treasury Bond Index, which each fund tracks. These broad, diverse, and market value-weighted indexes are designed to measure the performance of Treasury bonds issued in local
