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Global X Funds Launches First Fertilizers/Potash ETF (SOIL)

May 26, 2011--Global X Funds, the New York based provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), today launched the Global X Fertilizers/Potash ETF (Ticker: SOIL). SOIL offers targeted exposure to fertilizer producers around the world, giving investors access to a critical agricultural and commodity sector.

Global growth is predicted to drive food demand (especially high value foods such as meat, fruit and vegetables) in emerging economies, thereby strengthening demand for fertilizers (Food and Agricultural Organization, 2010). In India, for instance, grain yields are less than one half of those in the US, with improper fertilization being a key reason for lower yields. Farmers require these nutrients to increase crop yields, and fertilizer companies have become the primary producers of commodities that are critical for global food supply growth. China and India alone account for more than 40% of world fertilizer use and China’s annual consumption is expected to return to pre-2008 growth levels of nearly 10% per year.

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Source: Global X


Deutsche Bank and Invesco PowerShares launch two new Exchange Traded Notes

May 26, 2011--- Deutsche Bank and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, LLC today announced the launch of two new Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), which are designed to provide triple long and triple short exposure to futures contracts on the US Dollar Index® (USDX), an index designed to reflect the value of the US dollar compared with six of the world's most traded currencies.

The ETNs will be listed for trading on the NYSE Arca under the following symbols:
PowerShares DB 3x Long US Dollar Index Futures ETNs (“3x Long ETNs”): UUPT
PowerShares DB 3x Short US Dollar Index Futures ETNs (“3x Short ETNs”): UDNT

These ETNs expand upon Deutsche Bank’s popular PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish Fund (UUP) and PowerShares DB US Dollar Bearish Fund (UDN), which are exchange traded funds that track the performance of the US dollar. The ETNs are the first exchange-traded products to provide investors with leveraged exposure to the USDX.

“We are delighted to provide investors an opportunity to further benefit from Deutsche Bank’s industry-leading* foreign exchange platform through exchange-traded products,” said Martin Kremenstein, a Director at Deutsche Bank. “These ETNs provide investors additional ways to express a view on the US Dollar.”

* Deutsche Bank has been ranked as the world's No.1 bank in terms of overall market share in foreign exchange trades by Euromoney for seven years running.

Source: Online News


PowerShares Adds Convertibles ETF to Lineup

May 26, 2011--The PowerShares Convertible Securities Portfolio (CVRT) was listed for trading yesterday (5/26/11), becoming the second ETF targeting convertibles. Convertible securities are bonds that the holder can convert into shares of common stock of the issuer. This feature tends to make them more correlated than non-convertible bonds to stock market movements.

CVRT will try to mimic the performance of the BofA Merrill Lynch All U.S. Convertibles Index, which is designed to track the performance of U.S. dollar-denominated investment grade and non-investment grade convertible securities sold into the U.S. market and publicly traded in the United States.

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Source: TMCNET.com


CFTC Staff to Host Public Roundtable to Discuss Protection of Cleared Swaps Customer Collateral

May 25, 2011--Staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will hold a public roundtable on June 3, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to discuss issues related to the protection of cleared swaps customer collateral. The roundtable will assist the CFTC in the rulemaking process to implement the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The roundtable will be held in the Conference Center at the CFTC's headquarters at Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC. The discussion will be open to the public with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Members of the public may also listen by telephone and should be prepared to provide their first name, last name and affiliation

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Source: CFTC.gov


Strong demand for $35bn of 5-year Treasuries amid weak data

May 25, 2011--Investors aggressively sought $35bn of five-year Treasury debt sold on Wednesday at the lowest yield levels of the year.

In a sign of the demand, bid-cover ratio, or the measure of orders placed in relation to the auction amount, was 3.2 times, the highest since September 1994, when it was 3.29 times, according to Nomura Securities

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Source: FT.com


PowerShares files with the SEC

May 25, 2011--PowerShares has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for the PowerShares Fundamental Pure Large Growth Portfolio (PXLG) and the

PowerShares Fundamental Pure Large Value Portfolio (PXLV)

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Source: SEC.gov


DTCC: Indemnification Provision In Dodd-Frank Could Create Unintended Negative Consequences

Provision Could Undermine Regulators’ Ability to See Unfragmented View of Market Data
May 25, 2011-- The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today cautioned in testimony before a House Agriculture subcommittee that the indemnification provision of Dodd-Frank could create unintended negative consequences, including undermining efforts to enhance transparency and mitigate systemic risk in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market. The hearing was called to discuss global harmonization, extra-territoriality issues and technical concerns with the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.

"The underlying legislative intent of the Dodd-Frank Act could be subverted by the legislative language, preventing the exchange of information between regulators and frustrating efforts to identify and mitigate international financial risk and fragment regulatory oversight on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis," said Larry Thompson, DTCC managing director and general counsel, in testimony before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

Thompson said that foreign regulators are unlikely to grant US-based swap data repositories (SDRs) indemnification in exchange for access to data as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Without an indemnity agreement, SDRs may be legally precluded from providing critical market data to regulators overseas. As a result, foreign jurisdictions could be incentivized to create their own local repositories to avoid indemnification—a move that would lead to data fragmentation.

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Source: DTCC


Bernanke May Resist ‘Noah’s Ark’ Approach on Systemic Risk

My 25, 2011--Bloomberg reports: Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists are pressing a council of regulators including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to reject a so-called Noah’s Ark strategy in choosing which non-bank companies to put under Fed supervision.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the Financial Stability Oversight Council must designate companies whose failure would threaten economic stability. The Fed could require the firms to raise capital and reduce risky practices. They also would have to file “living wills” so they could be unwound in an orderly way.

Source: Bloomberg


UBS Announces New Exchange Traded Note Linked to 2X Leveraged Wells Fargo® Business Development Company Index

May 25, 2011--UBS Investment Bank announced today that it has expanded its ETRACS Exchange Traded Notes (“ETNs”) platform by adding the new ETRACS 2xLeveraged Long Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index. It began trading today on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol, BDCL, and provides leveraged exposure to Business Development Companies through a single investment.

“We are excited to add this ETN to our growing family of ETRACS ETNs. This new ETRACS 2xLeveraged Long Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index is particularly useful for investors seeking exposure to the BDC space and with 2X leverage, the Current Annual Leveraged Yield is 14.57%*,” said Christopher Yeagley, Managing Director and US Head of Equity Structured Products. “This ETN follows our successful launch of the Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index ETN (Ticker: BDCS), the first exchange traded product giving exclusive exposure to BDCs, on April 28, 2011. It is our third ETN with Wells Fargo and we are pleased to partner with them once again.”

BDCs are public vehicles that invest in private equity and debt and were created to increase financing available to small businesses. They function much like private equity funds, although BDCs allow various investors, regardless of size, to participate. A BDC lends to small and midsized companies at high yield equivalent rates and often takes equity stakes in these companies.

The Wells Fargo Business Development Company Index is comprised of 26 BDCs and is a float adjusted, capitalization-weighted index that is intended to measure the performance of BDCs that are publicly listed and satisfy specified market capitalization and other eligibility requirements.

Source: UBS


New York City Proclaims May 26, 2011 To Be ‘Dow Jones Industrial Average Day’ in Recognition Of Iconic Index’s 115th Anniversary

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Calls Dow: 'Most Recognizable, Most Frequently Quoted, Longest-Serving Market Indicator of its Kind'
Charles Dow was a 'Pioneer' Who Anticipated Investors 'Would Value Objective Measure of How Large Companies Traded During a Standard Session in the Stock Market', Mayor Bloomberg Adds
May 25, 2011-- The City of New York has proclaimed May 26, 2011 to be “Dow Jones Industrial Average Day” in recognition of the iconic index’s 115th anniversary.

Founded on May 26, 1896 in New York City by Charles Dow, one of the founders of The Wall Street Journal, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has evolved from 12 stocks published for readers of The Journal to 30 stocks, becoming “the most recognizable, most frequently quoted, and longest-serving market indicator of its kind,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an official proclamation issued from his office.

Referring to The Dow’s 115th anniversary as an “historic milestone,” Mayor Bloomberg added that Mr. Dow anticipated investors “would value an objective measure of how large companies traded during a standard session in the stock market.”

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Souce: Dow Jones


SEC Filings


July 09, 2025 Innovator ETFs Trust files with the SEC
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July 09, 2025 BlackRock ETF Trust files with the SEC-iShares Infrastructure Active ETF

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Europe ETF News


July 02, 2025 Valour Launches Eight New ETPs on Spotlight Stock Market, Including Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Unus Sed Leo (LEO), OKB (OKB), Polygon (POL), Algorand (ALGO), Filecoin (FIL), Arbitrum (ARB), and Stacks (STX)
June 16, 2025 ESMA's activities in 2024 focused on strengthening the EU capital markets and putting citizens and businesses at the heart of it
June 12, 2025 Janus Henderson launches active fixed income ETF
June 12, 2025 ifo Institute Raises Growth Forecast for Germany
June 10, 2025 ESMA publishes latest edition of its newsletter

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Asia ETF News


July 02, 2025 Fujitsu to develop ETF trading platform based on TSE's CONNEQTOR and provide it to Australian Securities Exchange
June 25, 2025 QFIIs Gain Access to Onshore ETF Options As A-share Market Opening Deepens
June 18, 2025 Mirae Asset Global Investments Launches MIRAE ASSET TIGER CHINA GLOBAL LEADERS TOP3 PLUS ETF, Tracking Solactive-KEDI China Global Leaders TOP3Plus Index
June 13, 2025 Post-Adjustment ChiNext Index Attracts Global Assets with Low Valuation and High Growth Potential
June 13, 2025 Unlocking Consumption to Sustain Growth in China -World Bank Economic Update

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Global ETP News


July 07, 2025 WTO issues new edition of World Tariff Profiles
July 03, 2025 Flow Traders-Tokenization in Capital Markets: A Market Maker's Perspective
June 14, 2025 Global Economic Prospects-Global Economy Faces Trade-Related Headwinds
June 12, 2025 Disclosing Public Debt Boosts Investor Confidence, Cuts Borrowing Costs 
June 10, 2025 Global Economy Set for Weakest Run Since 2008 Outside of Recessions

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Middle East ETP News


June 19, 2025 GCC: Growth on the Rise, but Smart Spending Will Shape a Thriving Future
June 16, 2025 Saudi Exchange leads market losses across the GCC

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Africa ETF News


July 04, 2025 South Africa: African Development Bank Country Focus Report highlights urgent need for economic transformation as GDP growth remains subdued
July 01, 2025 Africa's Trade Projected to Hit $1.5 Trillion in 2025
June 26, 2025 National stock exchange launched in Somalia
June 24, 2025 East Africa's regional 20 share index
June 16, 2025 African Credit Rating Agency to Launch September 2025

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ESG and Of Interest News


June 30, 2025 OECD-Environment at a Glance Indicators
June 18, 2025 Global Energy Transition Gains Ground, but Security and Capital Challenges Persist
June 17, 2025 Pacific Economic Update: Slowing Growth Highlights Need for More Inclusive Workforce
June 10, 2025 Global Carbon Pricing Mobilizes Over $100 Billion for Public Budgets
June 07, 2025 Accelerating Blue Finance: Instruments, Case Studies, and Pathways to Scale

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