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Bats Welcomes REX Shares as New Issuer to The Bats ETF Marketplace

May 3, 2016--Two New REX ETFs Begin Trading Today; Ten Issuers Now Have ETFs Listed on The Bats ETF Marketplace

Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS), the #1 U.S. market for the trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today welcomed REX Shares as a new issuer to The Bats ETF Marketplace with the launch of two new ETFs.

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Source: Bats Global Markets, Inc.


Goldman Sachs Announces Simplified Pricing Structure for ActiveBeta(R) ETFs

May 2, 2016--Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) today announced that it will implement changes to its fee and fee waiver arrangements for its ActiveBeta(R) Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs).

Effective May 1, 2016, a unitary management fee structure, together with a reduction in the management fee rate, will be implemented for the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta(R) ETFs.

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Source: Goldman Sachs


CME Group and Crypto Facilities Announce Launch of Bitcoin Reference Rate and Real-Time Index

May 2, 2016--CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it will collaborate with Crypto Facilities Ltd., a digital assets trading platform, to develop two new products planned to launch in the fourth quarter of 2016:

CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR), which will provide a final settlement price in U.S. dollars at 4 pm London time on each trading day, and CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index (RTI), which will allow users real-time access to bitcoin prices.

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Source: CME Group


Itiviti AB:Sea Otter Selects Tbricks by Itiviti to Grow ETF Business

Sea Otter Securities Group LLC deploys Tbricks by Itiviti for ETF market making on NYSE Arca
May 2, 2016--Itiviti, a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry, today announced that Sea Otter Global Ventures LLC, a private investment firm based in New York, has chosen the Tbricks by Itiviti platform for ETF market making on NYSE Arca.

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Source: Itiviti


U.S. economy slows, with GDP growing 0.5% in first quarter

April 28, 2016--The U.S. economy grew at its weakest quarterly pace in two years between the months of January and March, government data showed Thursday morning, as consumers and businesses alike showed new caution with their spending.

The nation's gross domestic product expanded just 0.5 percent on an annualized pace. Businesses cut back on investments with a severity not seen since the financial crisis.

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Source: Washington Post


Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

April 27, 2016--Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that labor market conditions have improved further even as growth in economic activity appears to have slowed.

Growth in household spending has moderated, although households' real income has risen at a solid rate and consumer sentiment remains high. Since the beginning of the year, the housing sector has improved further but business fixed investment and net exports have been soft. A range of recent indicators, including strong job gains, points to additional strengthening of the labor market. Inflation has continued to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective, partly reflecting earlier declines in energy prices and falling prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance, in recent months.

WisdomTree Launches Fundamental U.S. Corporate Bond ETF Suite

Qualitative Approach to Fixed Income Investing Using Fundamentals to Screen for Quality and Tilt toward Income
April 27, 2016--WisdomTree (WETF), an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and exchange-traded product ("ETP") sponsor and asset manager, today announced the launch of four U.S. Corporate Bond ETFs on the BATS Exchange.

WisdomTree Fundamental U.S. Corporate Bond Fund (WFIG)

WisdomTree Fundamental U.S. Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund (SFIG)

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Source: WisdomTree


IMF Survey-Latin America's Economic Slowdown Continues

April 27, 2016--Growth forecast marked down further
Lower for longer commodity prices, China slowdown pose serious challenges
Managing key transitions, addressing structural weaknesses can boost potential output

As the global recovery continues to struggle to gain its footing, growth in Latin America and the Caribbean has been marked down further and is likely to contract for the second consecutive year in 2016, the IMF said.

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view the IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere Managing Transitions and Risks

Source: IMF


ProShares to Remove Two ETFs from BATS Competitive Liquidity Program

April 27, 2016--ProShares announced today that it would remove two of its ETFs, ProShares Investment Grade-Interest Rate Hedged (IGHG) and ProShares High Yield-Interest Rate Hedged (HYHG), from the BATS Exchange Competitive Liquidity Providers (CLP) Program on April 29, 2016.

The funds will be moving to the BATS Lead Market Maker (LMM) program.

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