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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.
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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Source:MSCI
CrowdInvest Launches Market's Only Crowd Sentiment-Weighted ETF
Rules-based ETF to Trade on the New York Stock Exchange
April 26, 2016--The creators of the CrowdInvest Wisdom Index (CROWDWIS) and the Crowd-Invest mobile application today launch the CrowdInvest Wisdom ETF (WIZE), an exchange-traded fund that tracks the CrowdInvest Wisdom Index.
WIZE begins trading today on the NYSE. This next generation, smart-beta product allows investors to achieve exposure to a diversified index. This index is composed of U.S.-listed equities weighted by sentiment built by an independent, diverse crowd.
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Source: CrowdInvest
NYSE, Nasdaq blast SEC market advisory group plans, processes
April 26, 2016--A plan to test limiting a contentious pricing model used by U.S. stock exchanges could have negative consequences and would not improve the trading of listed companies, executives from the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Inc said on Tuesday.
Many exchanges charge brokers a fee to immediately execute orders and that fee is used to subsidize rebates the exchanges pay to brokers that send them resting bids and offers for others to trade against.
Emerging Global Advisors' Survey Finds Investors Looking to Increase Allocations to Emerging Markets
April 26, 2016--Emerging Global Advisors (EGA) today announced the results of its latest Emerging Markets (EM) Investor Sentiment Survey, a quarterly poll of asset managers and financial advisors focusing on their sentiment and equity allocations to emerging markets.
The EGA EM Investor Sentiment Survey score increased 9% from 495 in the fourth quarter of 2015 to 538 in the first quarter of 2016.
