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SEC Adopts Rules to Modernize Key Market Infrastructure Responsible for Collecting, Consolidating, and Disseminating Equity Market Data
December 9, 2020--Fosters a competitive environment for core components of the national market system for the first time
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted rules to modernize the infrastructure for the collection, consolidation, and dissemination of market data for exchange-listed national market system stocks ("NMS market data"). This infrastructure has not been significantly updated since its initial implementation in the late 1970s.
The adopted rules update and significantly expand the content of NMS market data to better meet the diverse needs of investors in today's equity markets. The adopted rules also update the method by which NMS market data is consolidated and disseminated, by fostering a competitive environment and providing for a new decentralized model that promises reduced latency and other new efficiencies.
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Source: sec.gov
SEC Approves Plan to Bring More Detailed Stock-Market Data to Public
December 9, 2020--Under the plan, data showing supply and demand for stocks will be added to public feeds
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a plan to beef up the public data feeds that broadcast stock prices to investors, broadening access to market information that exchanges sell to professional traders at a premium.
Under the SEC's plan, detailed data showing supply and demand for stocks will be added to the public feeds, which are called securities information processors, or SIPs. Wall Street banks and electronic trading firms use such data to predict short-term price moves and ensure that they get good prices when buying or selling stocks.
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Source: wsj.com
US exchanges face added pressure on data fees under SEC clampdown
December 9, 2020--Regulator in bipartisan agreement to toughen rules and introduce competition.
Regulator in bipartisan agreement to toughen rules and introduce...view more
Source: FT.com
Adasina Social Capital Launches Social Justice ETF
December 9, 2020--The Adasina Social Justice All Cap Global ETF (NYSE: JSTC) tracks the firm's proprietary index and methodology which supports the advancement of racial, gender, economic, and climate justice.
Adasina Social Capital ("Adasina"), an investment and financial activism firm that serves as a critical bridge between financial markets and social justice movements, today announced the launch of the Adasina Social Justice All Cap Global ETF (ticker: JSTC).
The ETF is now available and can be accessed directly through Adasina Social Capital and most investment platforms.
The exchange-traded fund (ETF) includes global companies whose business practices are aligned with Adasina Social Justice Investment Criteria, and excludes companies whose practices impede the advancement of equitable systems. The investment criteria is a data-driven set of investment standards determined by working closely with social justice movements to identify the issues most directly affecting their communities- with a particular focus on racial, gender, economic, and climate justice.
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Source: Adasina Social Capital
KraneShares Launches China Consumer Leaders ETF (Ticker: KBUY)
December 9, 2020-- Krane Funds Advisors, LLC, ("KraneShares"), a global asset management firm known for its China-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and innovative China investment strategies, today announced the launch of the KraneShares CICC China Consumer Leaders ETF (Ticker: KBUY) on the New York Stock Exchange.
KBUY seeks to measure the performance of the CICC China Consumer Leaders Index. The index consists of the investable universe of publicly traded China-based companies whose primary business or businesses are in consumption-related industries such as home appliances, food & beverage, apparel & clothing, hotels, restaurants, and duty-free goods.
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Source: KraneShares
Blue Horizon Capital and Exchange Traded Concepts Announce the Launch of the Blue Horizon BNE ETF (NYSE: BNE)
December 9, 2020--ETF offers a broad, complete exposure to the New Energy Economy, a multi-decade theme already driving innovation in energy production, distribution, storage and use
Blue Horizon Capital, an index, advisory and research company focused on helping investors capture the unique opportunities in the fast-growing New Energy Economy, today announced the launch of the Blue Horizon BNE ETF.
Exchange Traded Concepts is the issuer of this new fund, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange tracking an index developed by the Blue Horizon team.
BNE is designed to be a one-fund solution, capturing the major developments and disruptions taking place across all five segments of the New Energy Economy, which include:
E-Mobility, including electric vehicles, enabling technologies and e-tools;
Energy Storage, including batteries, components, hydrogen, and battery recycling;
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Source: Blue Horizon Capital
Riskier Cousins of ETFs Are Shutting Down Like Never Before
December 9, 2020--Exchange-traded notes face record liquidations, drop in assets
Market volatility, wild price swings highlight ETNs' dangers
A risky corner of the exchange-traded universe is facing closings at the fastest pace ever.
So far this year, 54 exchange-traded notes have either liquidated or delisted, the most in a single year on record, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
These instruments faced a wild year, even by 2020's standards, with violent market swings at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic leading several issuers to pull the plug
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Source: bloomberg.com
New York State Pension Fund Sets 2040 Net Zero Carbon Emissions Target
Announcement Builds on Fund's Climate Action Plan
Review of Energy Sector Investments to Be Completed by 2025, With Potential Divestment for Riskiest Companies
Sponsors of Fossil Fuel Divestment Act Support Fund's Strategy
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today that the New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund), valued at an estimated $226 billion, has adopted a goal to transition its portfolio to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.
This process will include completion within four years of a review of investments in energy sector companies, using minimum standards to assess transition readiness and climate-related investment risk, with, where consistent with fiduciary duty, divestment of companies that fail to meet minimum standards.
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Source: osc.state.ny.us
Indxx Global Cloud Computing Index Licensed by Mirae Asset Global Investments for an Exchange Traded Fund
December 8, 2020-Indxx is pleased to announce that the Indxx Global Cloud Computing Index (the "Index"), has been licensed by South Korea based ETF Issuer Mirae Asset Global Investments as the underlying benchmark for the Mirae Asset TIGER Global Cloud Computing Indxx ETF (KRX: 371450 KS Equity ), which began trading today.
This marks the second product tracking the Index, the first being the Global X Cloud Computing ETF (Nasdaq: CLOU) in the United States, which launched in 2019 and has gathered well over $1.25 billion in assets.
The Index (Ticker: ICLOUT) tracks the performance of companies that are in the Cloud Computing Industry. The Cloud Computing Industry is involved in the delivery of computing services- servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and more over the Internet which is referred to as "The Cloud".
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Source: Indxx
CBO-Monthly Budget Review for November 2020
December 8, 2020--The federal budget deficit totaled $430 billion in October and November 2020, the first two months of fiscal year 2021, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. That amount is $87 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last year. Outlays were higher by 9 percent, and revenues were lower by 3 percent, than in October and November 2019.
Because December 1, 2019, fell on a weekend, outlays through November in that year were boosted by the shift of certain payments from December to November. If not for those timing shifts, outlays so far this year would have been $123 billion greater than those in the same period last year, and the deficit would have risen more—by $136 billion.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
