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Position limits would hurt investment goals: USCF
March 25, 2011--A futures regulator proposal that would place position limits in the commodities markets may not prevent manipulation or speculation, and would prevent operators of commodity funds from meeting their investment goals, an exchange-traded fund manager said.
The U.S. Commodity Funds, a manager of leading ETFs U.S. Oil Fund (USO.P) and U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG.P), said on Friday that instead of preventing excessive speculation -- the goal of position limits -- it could adversely affect the value of the exchange-traded pools managed by it and others.
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Source: Reuters
BlackRock *New Report * ETF Landscape: US Handbook - Q1 2011
March 25, 2011--ETF Landscape: US handbook - Q1 2011 is a comprehensive directory of all 1,117 ETFs and ETPs with assets of US$1.1 trillion from 46 providers listed on two exchanges in the United States.
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Source: Global ETF Research & Implementation Strategy Team, BlackRock
CFE Launches Security Futures on CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index (GVZ) Today
March 25, 2011--- The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) today announced it has launched security futures trading on the CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index (Ticker - GVZ), further expanding tradable CFE volatility products into a new asset class.
"With the Gold VIX security futures contract, we look forward to bringing the same utility of volatility futures trading available through our CBOE VIX security futures contract, covering the market as a whole, to a new ETF category and new types of investors," Andrew Lowenthal, CFE Managing Director said. "This contract allows investors to diversify and hedge their GLD exposures through a trading vehicle that was not previously available."
The calculation of the CBOE Gold ETF Volatility Index ("Gold VIX") is based on the well-known CBOE VIX methodology applied to options on the SPDR Gold Trust (Ticker - GLD). The Gold VIX is an up-to-the-minute market estimate of the expected 30-day volatility of GLD, calculated using real-time bid/ask quotes of GLD options that are listed on CBOE.
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Source: CBOE
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Canadian Indices
March 25, 2011--Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes:
The shareholders of Western Coal Corp. (TSX:WTN) have accepted the cash and share takeover offer from Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT).
Western Coal will be removed from the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity, Capped Equity, Equity Completion and Equity SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Completion, the S&P/TSX SmallCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Materials, the S&P/TSX Capped Diversified Metals & Mining, the S&P/TSX Global Mining and Global Base Metals and the S&P/TSX Equal Weight Global Base Metals indices after close on Friday, April 1, 2011.
Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.
Source: Standard & Poors
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
March 25, 2011----CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports have been updated for the week of March 22, 2011 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
First Trust files with the SEC
March 25, 2011-- First Trust has filed a post-effective amendment No. 48 to the First Trust NASDAQ Global Auto Index Fund.
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Source: SEC.gov
First Trust Files with the SEC
March 25, 2011--First Trust has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for the First Trust Exchange-Traded AlphaDEX Fund.
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Source: SEC.gov
Janua files with the SEC
March 25, 2011-Janus has filed an amended application for exemptive relief with the SEC.
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Source: SEC.gov
Hartford files with the SEC
MArch 25, 2011-Hartford has filed an amended application for exemptive relief with the SEC for actively managed ETFs.
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Source: SEC.gov
ProShares files with the SEC
March 25, 2011--ProShares has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for the
Short Fixed-Income ProShares
-Short High Yield(SJB)
Short Investment Grade Corporate (IGS) and
UltraShort 3-7 Year Treasury (TBZ)
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Source: SEC.gov
