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Vanguard Launches U.S. Factor Funds
February 15, 2018--New suite of funds marks firm's first actively managed ETFs in the U.S.
Vanguard today launched six new factor-based ETFs-the firm's first actively managed ETFs in the U.S.-and one factor-based mutual fund.
Vanguard's five single factor funds seek to achieve specific risk or return objectives through targeted factor exposures-minimum volatility, value, momentum, liquidity, and quality-and will have an estimated expense ratio of 0.13%. The sixth ETF and mutual fund follows a multi-factor approach and has an estimated expense ratio of 0.18%.
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Source: Vanguard
Treasury International Capital Data For December
February 15, 2018--The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for December 2017. The next release, which will report on data for January 2018, is scheduled for March 15, 2018.
The sum total in December of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC outflow of $119.3 billion. Of this, net foreign private outflows were $70.0 billion, and net foreign official outflows were $49.3 billion.
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Source: US Department of the Treasury
CFTC Warns Customers to Avoid Pump-and-Dump Schemes
February 15, 2018--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a Customer Protection Advisory that warns customers to beware of and avoid pump-and-dump schemes that can occur in thinly traded or new "alternative" virtual currencies, digital coins or tokens.
"As with many online frauds, this type of scam is not new-it simply deploys an emerging technology to capitalize on public interest in digital assets," said CFTC Director of Public Affairs Erica Elliott Richardson. "Pump-and-dump schemes long pre-date the invention of virtual currencies, and typically conjure the image of penny stock boiler rooms, but customers should know that these frauds have evolved and are prevalent online. Even experienced investors can become targets of professional fraudsters who are experts at deploying seemingly credible information in an attempt to deceive.
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Source: CFTC.gov
SEC Kills Chinese-Linked Takeover of Chicago Stock Exchange
February 15, 2018--Donald Trump blasted deal during the presidential campaign
Chicago exchange wanted to become a hub for Chinese stocks
U.S. regulators rejected a bid by a Chinese-linked consortium to take over the Chicago Stock Exchange, extinguishing an ambitious dream of starting an international listing venue from a minuscule market.
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Source: Bloomberg
Cboe Global Markets to List SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) Monday-Expiring Weekly Options
February 15, 2018--Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today announced that it plans to list SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (ticker symbol: SPY) options that expire on Mondays, beginning February 16, 2018, subject to rule filing effectiveness.
The new series of SPY options are expected to be listed on Cboe Global Markets' four options exchanges: Cboe Options, C2 Options, Cboe BZX Options and Cboe EDGX Options.
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Source: Cboe Global Markets
Thomson Reuters-U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Despite Four-Day Stock Market Rally, Fund Investors Are Net Redeemers for the Week
February 15, 2018--For the second week in three investors were net sellers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), withdrawing $14.1 billion. Despite a turnaround in the equity market, fund investors were net redeemers for the week of equity funds (-$4.6 billion), taxable bond funds (-$7.8 billion), municipal bond funds (-$443 million), and money market funds (-$1.3 billion).
All of January 2018's equity market gains were wiped out in the first two weeks of February. However, President Donald Trump's recently released infrastructure plans, continued strong Q4 2017 earnings reports, and bargain hunting helped pushed the major indices up during the fund-flows week ended February 14.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
Cboe Welcomes New Issuer Vanguard to ETF Marketplace
February 15, 2018--Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today welcomed Vanguard as a new issuer to the Cboe ETF Marketplace, with the launch of six U.S.-focused funds.
The new ETFs include:
The Vanguard U.S. Liquidity Factor ETF (Cboe: VFLQ) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in stocks with lower measures of trading liquidity.
The Vanguard U.S. Minimum Volatility ETF (Cboe: VFMV) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation with lower volatility relative to the broad U.S. equity market.
The Vanguard U.S. Momentum Factor ETF (Cboe: VFMO) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in stocks with strong recent performance.
The Vanguard U.S. Multifactor ETF (Cboe: VFMF) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing in stocks with relatively strong recent performance, strong fundamentals,and low prices relative to fundamentals.
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Source: Cboe Global Markets
S-Network Wins the Race to Zero
February 15, 2018--SMArtX Launches S-Net 500 Free of Any Fees or Expenses
S-Network Global Indexes today announced the launch of 14 benchmark, thematic, smart beta and socially responsible indexes on SMArtX Advisory Solutions' Turnkey Asset Management Platform (TAMP).
Included in the SMArtX offering is the S-Net 500, a US large cap index with high correlation and close tracking to the major benchmark index. This is the first time a key US benchmark index is being offered without charge--zero expenses, zero platform fees and zero cost..
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Source: S-Network Global Indexes
Meet 'Paypal for Crypto,' a New Way to Pay With Bitcoin and Litecoin
February 15, 2018--The largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, is releasing a PayPal-like service of its own.
On Wednesday, Coinbase wrote about its new platform that will make it easier for merchants to accept payments with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin through Coinbase Commerce.
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Source: Fortune.com
TASE And BlueStar Indexes Are ending Their Collaboration Regarding The TA-BIGITech Index
February 15, 2018--BlueStar Indexes and TASE will be ending their collaboration regarding the TA-BIGITech Index.
The BIGITech Index was developed and launched by BlueStar Indexes in 2013, and in 2015, a collaboration agreement was signed between the parties, pursuant to which the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) contributed from its experience to promote the BIGITech Index, belonging to BlueStar Indexes.
In accordance with the agreement, the index was rebranded under the name TA-BIGITech and TASE began to publish the index on its website, alongside TASE's own indexes.
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Source: TASE
