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CBO-Monthly Budget Review: Summary for Fiscal Year 2018
November 7, 2018-In fiscal year 2018, the budget deficit totaled $779 billion-$113 billion more than the shortfall recorded in 2017.
Measured as a share of GDP, the deficit increased to 3.8 percent in 2018, up from 3.5 percent in 2017 and 3.2 percent in 2016.
In fiscal year 2018, which ended on September 30, the federal budget deficit totaled $779 billion-$113 billion more than the shortfall recorded in 2017. The deficit increased to 3.8 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018, up from 3.5 percent in 2017 and 3.2 percent in 2016. Outlays in 2018 were reduced by a shift in the timing of certain payments; those payments were instead made in fiscal year 2017 because October 1, 2017 (the first day of fiscal year 2018), fell on a weekend. If not for that shift, the deficit in 2018 would have been $823 billion, or 4.1 percent of GDP.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Lipper U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Overall Net Outflows Are Driven by Investors Fleeing Fixed Income Funds
November 2, 2018--Lipper's fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) saw $6.2 billion net leave their coffers for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, October 31. The net outflows were attributable to taxable fixed income funds (-$7.5 billion) and municipal bond funds (-$1.3 billion).
The equity funds (+$2.4 billion) and money market funds (+$176 million) asset groups both took in net new money.
Market Overview
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (+2.17%) and the S&P 500 Index (+2.09%) had bounce-back performances for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, October 31, but that was not enough to salvage their overall performance for the month of October. The S&P 500 was down 6.94% for the month, its worst monthly performance since September 2011 when it retreated 7.18%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 5.07% this October.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
SEC Adopts Rules That Increase Information Brokers Must Provide to Investors on Order Handling
November 2, 2018--The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has voted to adopt amendments that will require broker-dealers to disclose to investors new and enhanced information about the way they handle investors' orders.
"In the eighteen years since the Commission originally adopted its order handling and routing disclosure rules, technology and innovation have driven significant changes in the way that our equities market functions and investors transact," said Chairman Jay Clayton. "This rule amendment will make it easier for investors to evaluate how their brokers handle their orders and ultimately make more informed choices about the brokers with whom they do business."
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Source: SEC.gov
SEC Enforcement Division Issues Report on FY 2018 Results
November 2, 2018--The Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division today issued the annual report of its ongoing efforts to protect investors and market integrity. The report also highlights several significant actions and initiatives that took place in FY 2018.
The report presents the activities of the Division from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective.
"As this report demonstrates, the Division's approach to enforcement is multifaceted and outcomes-oriented with the interests of our Main Street investors front of mind," said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton.
view the SEC Enforcement Division Annual Report-FY18
Source: SEC.gov
CFTC's Office of the Chief Economist Issues Report on Initial Margin Phase 5
October 31, 2018--The Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued, "Initial Margin Phase 5,," a report about uncleared margin rules, which goes into effect on September 1, 2020.
On that date, swaps market participants with between $8 and $750 billion of swaps notional amount must begin to post and collect initial margin on all trades that have at least one swap-dealer counterparty. The market is currently in Phase 3, in which counterparties with $1.5 trillion or more of swaps notional amount are subject to the rules. The OCE paper released today was written to assist regulators in responding to requests for relief from industry participants.
view the OCE Report: Initial Margin Phase 5
Source: CFTC.gov
SEC Issues Statement on Certain Provisions of Business Conduct Standards for Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants
October 31, 2018--The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has voted to issue a statement setting forth the Commission's position, for a limited time period, that certain actions with respect to specific provisions of its Business Conduct Standards for Security-Based Swap (SBS) Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants will not provide a basis for a Commission enforcement action.
The statement also addresses the Commission's position on the ability of parties to security-based swaps to rely on written representations previously provided in relation to swaps, also for a limited time period.
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Source: SEC.gov
Crypto exchange Coinbase valued at $8bn after funding round
October 30, 2018--Latest round comes despite sharp falls this year in many coins.
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Source: FT.com
U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Equity ETFs Take in Net New Money Despite a Market Meltdown During the Week
October 25, 2018--For the second week in three investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $5.6 billion for Lipper's fund-flows week ended October 24, 2018.
Fund investors were net purchasers of equity funds (+$4.2 billion) and money market funds (+$6.4 billion) while being net redeemer of taxable fixed income funds (-$4.5 billion) and municipal bond funds (-$495 million).
Market Wrap-Up
The triple hangover of trade uncertainties, Federal Reserve rate hikes on the horizon, and slowing global growth weighed on investor psyche during the fund-flows week. Despite a strong beginning to the Q3 earnings season and continued good news on the U.S. economic front, considerations about Italy's budget crisis, Saudi Arabia's complicity in a dissident journalist's death, ongoing U.S./China trade disputes, and the upcoming midterm elections caused investors to flee equities.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
Distillate Capital Launches DSTL, Fundamental Stability & Value ETF
October 24, 2018--Rationally-defined value and quality metrics utilize proprietary normalized cash yield
methodologies
Distillate Capital, a Chicago-based asset manager
focused on fundamental equity analysis, today announced the launch of its first ETF.
The Distillate U.S. Fundamental Stability & Value ETF (NYSE:DSTL) seeks to distill a
starting universe of the roughly 500 largest U.S. companies by market cap into only the
stocks where quality and value overlap.
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Source: Distillate Capital
BlackRock Takes Sustainable Investing Mainstream with Range of Low-Cost Sustainable Core ETFs
October 23, 2018--Three Launches: New iShares Sustainable Core ETFs, new portfolio analytics, transparent ESG data
BlackRock projects global ESG ETF assets will rise to $400 Billion by 2028
iShares, a pioneer in simplifying investment portfolios for investors, introduces the iShares Sustainable Core-a line-up of sustainable ETFs that bundle the ability to focus on purpose and performance-for the core of investor portfolios.
To simplify sustainable investment's, BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) also unveiled transparent ESG data disclosures, new ESG portfolio analytic tools, and increased accessibility with ESG focused model portfolios.
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Source: BlackRock
