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Chairman Schapiro Statement on Knight Capital Group Trading Issue
July 3, 2012--Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro today made the following statement:
The apparent trading error by Knight Capital Group on Wednesday reflects the type of event that can raise concerns for investors about our nation's equity markets-markets that I believe are the most resilient, efficient, and robust in the world.
Reliance on computers is a fact of life not only in markets everywhere, but in virtually every facet of business. That doesn’t mean we should not endeavor to reduce the likelihood of technology errors and limit their impact when they occur.
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Source: SEC.gov
Horizons ETFs Announces ETF Closures
August 3, 2012--Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc. ("Horizons ETFs") and its affiliate Horizons ETFs Management ( Canada ) Inc. (the "Manager") announced today that they will be terminating certain exchange traded funds ("ETFs") effective at the close of business on Friday October 12, 2012.
The ETFs being terminated (collectively, the "Terminated ETFs") are as follows:
Horizons BetaPro NYMEX® Natural Gas Inverse ETF-HIN Horizons BetaPro NYMEX® Crude Oil Inverse ETF-HIO
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Source: Horizons Exchange Traded Funds Inc
Goldman support boosts Knight Capital
August 3, 2012--Goldman Sachs has stepped in to help Knight Capital unwind its erroneous trades, helping to push shares of the broker sharply higher.
The preliminary agreement with Goldman was struck late on Wednesday, hours after Knight’s newly installed market-making software went haywire and entered thousands of erroneous trades. The glitch led to a $440m loss for Knight and sent its shares plunging more than 75 per cent on Thursday.
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Source: FT.com
Rafferty Asset Management closing nine Direxion Daily 3x Shares Funds
August 3, 2012--The Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has decided to liquidate and shutter nine exchange-traded funds ("Funds") based on the recommendation of Rafferty Asset Management, LLC, the Trust's advisor.
Due to the Funds' inability to attract sufficient investment assets, Rafferty believes they cannot continue to conduct their business and operations in an economically efficient manner. As a result, the Board concluded that liquidating and shuttering the Funds would be in the best interests of the Funds and their shareholders.
The Trust will close the following Funds: Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bull 3X Shares (COWL), Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bear 3X Shares (COWS), Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bear 3X Shares (MATS), Direxion Daily BRIC Bull 3X Shares (BRIL), Direxion Daily BRIC Bear 3X Shares (BRIS), Direxion Daily Healthcare Bear 3X Shares (SICK), Direxion Daily India Bear 3X Shares (INDZ), Direxion Daily Latin America Bear 3X Shares (LHB) and Direxion Daily Retail Bear 3X Shares (RETS).
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Source: Direxion
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
August 3, 2012--The current reports for the week of July 31, 2012 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Fidelity Is Said to Plan Jump Into ETFs With Active Funds
August 3, 2012--Fidelity Investments, the asset manager that watched from the sidelines as exchange-traded funds went from zero to $1.5 trillion over the past 20 years, is finally preparing to jump into the business, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Fidelity, based in Boston, aims to become the first major mutual-fund company to introduce ETFs run by active stock pickers by opening a series of products based on its “Select” line of industry-focused equity funds, said the person, who asked not to be named because the plan isn’t public. The Denver- based unit that would run the ETFs is headed by Anthony Rochte, who was hired from State Street Corp. (STT) (STT) in March, the person said.
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Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Direxion Closing Nine Daily 3x Shares ETFs
RAFFERTY ASSET MANAGEMENT CLOSING
NINE DIREXION DAILY 3X SHARES FUNDS
August 3, 2012--The Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has decided to liquidate and shutter nine exchange-traded funds ("Funds") based on the recommendation of Rafferty Asset Management, LLC, the Trust's advisor.
Due to the Funds’ inability to attract sufficient investment assets, Rafferty believes they cannot continue to conduct their business and operations in an economically efficient manner. As a result, the Board concluded that liquidating and shuttering the Funds would be in the best interests of the Funds and their shareholders.
The Trust will close the following Funds: Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bull 3X Shares (COWL), Direxion Daily Agribusiness Bear 3X Shares (COWS), Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bear 3X Shares (MATS), Direxion Daily BRIC Bull 3X Shares (BRIL), Direxion Daily BRIC Bear 3X Shares (BRIS), Direxion Daily Healthcare Bear 3X Shares (SICK), Direxion Daily India Bear 3X Shares (INDZ), Direxion Daily Latin America Bear 3X Shares (LHB) and Direxion Daily Retail Bear 3X Shares (RETS).
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Source: Direxion
IMF Country Report-United States: Selected Issues
August 2, 2012--I. U.S. HOUSEHOLD WEALTH AND SAVING: THE MICRO STORY BEHIND THE MACRO DYNAMICS1
Aggregate savings statistics reveal little about the types of households that drove down the U.S. saving rate before the 2008 crisis and its subsequent recovery. Using PSID micro data, this paper demonstrates that households with consistently lower income growth in the years
prior to the crisis experienced larger declines in their saving rates and a larger rise in their indebtedness before the crisis, contributing significantly to the dynamics of the mean saving rate.
Households with a larger share of total assets in housing and higher debt-to-income ratios raised their saving rates more sharply after the crisis, from depressed levels. The findings indicate that groups whose balance sheets were more adversely affected by theth through active savings, suggesting that in the absence of asset price appreciation these households may wish to save
more in the future.
A. Introduction
1. Households’ consumption-saving
housing bust have made limited progress in rebuilding their net wordecisions have an important bearing on the U.S. economic outlook. In the years leading up to the 2008–09 recession, U.S. households played an important role in supporting U.S. and global growth by sustaining high levels of
consumption.
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Source: IMF
ETF Industry Association Releases July 2012 ETF Data Reports
August 2, 2012--Key highlights from the July 2012 ETF Data report include:
Assets in US listed Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange Traded Notes (ETN) totaled approximately $1.21 trillion at July 2012 month-end, an increase of 9% over July 2011 month-end, when assets totaled $1.11 trillion.
ETF/ETN net cash inflows totaled approximately $17.1 billion for the month of July 2012, bringing year-to-date net cash inflows to $93.0 billion.
At July 2012 month-end, there were 1,486 U.S. listed products, an increase of 15% compared to the 1,295 U.S. listed products at the same time last year.
Equities led all categories for July with $17.1 billion in net inflows
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Source: ETF Industry Association
Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million
August 2, 2012--$10 million a minute.
That's about how much the trading problem that set off turmoil on the stock market on Wednesday morning is already costing the trading firm.
The Knight Capital Group announced on Thursday that it lost $440 million when it sold all the stocks it accidentally bought Wednesday morning because a computer glitch.
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Source: NY Times
