(Source: Business Wire)Dynex Capital, Inc. (NYSE:DX) today announced that it anticipates being added to the broad-market Russell 3000® Index based upon preliminary disclosures by the Russell Investment Group ("Russell"). The official inclusion is planned to occur when Russell reconstitutes its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes today, Friday, June 26, 2009. Russell determines membership for its equity indexes primarily by objective market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.

The Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. An industry-leading $4 trillion in assets are currently benchmarked to them. These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment business in the early 1980's when the company saw the need for a more objective, market-driven set of benchmarks in order to evaluate outside investment managers.

Dynex Capital, Inc. is a specialty finance company that elects to be treated as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes. Additional information about Dynex Capital, Inc. is available at www.dynexcapital.com.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regardingthe business of Dynex Capital, Inc.that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion ofthese risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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