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AdvisorShares This Week in Active ETFs: Floating Around the Unpredictability of Rates
March 6, 2017--Weekly Market Review-For the week of February 27 to March 03, 2017
Bull Market Turns 8 This Week!
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President Trump's speech on Tuesday was interesting and generally well received. While no president can please
everyone, this speech was generally light on bluster and, inflammatory comments, sounding more presidential than at other recent public appearances.
While there was still spin and other liberties with the truth, markets reacted favorably to the speech, lifting more than one percent for the four major domestic benchmarks-including new big figures for
the Dow and S&P on Wednesday.
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Source: AdvisorShares
The Forum at ETF Research Center-February ETF Flows: Cautiously Risk-On
March 6, 2017--ETF investors put some $43 billion in new money to work in February, according to our database tracking 1,546 ETFs with $2.7 trillion in AUM.
Investors expressed a preference for higher risk areas like emerging markets and small cap stocks, but also hedged their bets by increasing short positions pretty much across the board.
Among equity ETFs, overall short interest increased from 6.5% of AUM on January 31, 2017 to 6.8% on February 28, 2017.
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Source: AltaVista Research
VanEck launches the first US.-listed green-bond ETF
March 6, 2017--GRNB provides broad exposure to the fast-growing global green bond market
VanEck today announced the launch of the VanEck VectorsTM Green Bond ETF (NYSE Arca: GRNB), the newest addition to the firm's suite of fixed income ETFs and the first U.S.-listed fixed income ETF to provide targeted exposure to the fast-growing green bond category.
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Source: VanEck
Here Come ETF Regulations (and Why the Industry Is Happy About It)
March 6, 2017--New funds,,but also new risks, are expected as fund regulation is turned on its head
Fund companies are about to go on the regulatory offensive in Washington. And their chances for success are looking pretty good.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Jack Bogle: ETFs have beaten hedge funds
March 5, 2017--Founder of Vanguard says investors are tired of paying high fees for poor performance.
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Source: FT.com
China overtakes eurozone as biggest bank system
March 5, 2017--Status reflects global influence but also reliance on debt to fuel economy.
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Source: FT.com
BRIEF-CBOE Holdings reports February 2017 trading volume
March 4, 2017-- CBOE Holdings reports February 2017 trading volume
CBOE Holdings Inc-total contracts (options & futures) in Feb 2017 were 102.8 million, up 11 percent
CBOE Holdings Inc says Feb total futures contracts (CFE) 4.98 million versus. 4.09 million last year
CBOE Holdings Inc says Feb total options contracts was 97.8 million up 10 percent Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
Global X Funds Announces Reverse Share Split For Global X MSCI Nigeria ETF view more Federal Reserve releases examples of new charts that illustrate uncertainty around monetary policymakers’ macroeconomic and interest rate projections
Source: Reuters
March 3, 2017--Global X Funds, the New York-based provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today announced that its Board of Trustees has approved a reverse share split for the Global X MSCI Nigeria ETF (NYSE: NGE).
NGE is the only ETF focused exclusively on the Nigerian market.
Source: Global X
March 3, 2017--The Federal Reserve on Friday released examples of new charts (sometimes called "fan charts") and related materials that illustrate and describe the uncertainty that attends Federal Open Market Committee participants' macroeconomic and interest rate projections.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
