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CORRECT: ProShares To Launch Volatility ETFs - CEO
January 3, 2011-)--Investors who prefer exchange-traded funds over stocks, bonds or other instruments will be able to trade two ProShares ETFs tied to the stock market's "fear index" starting Tuesday.
ProShares is set to launch two funds that track futures on the CBOE Market Volatility Index, according to ProShare Capital Management Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Sapir. The launch ...
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Source: Wall Street Journal
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
January 3, 2011-The CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports for the for the week of December 28, 2010 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
OIC Announces December Options Volume Up 16% As Annual Volume Sets Eighth Consecutive Record
January 3, 2011--The Options Industry Council (OIC) announced today that 341,207,420 total options contracts were traded in December, which is a 15.67 percent increase over December 2009 volume of 294,983,521 contracts.
In addition, total options trading volume for 2010 came in at 3,899,068,670 contracts. This surpasses 2009’s record year by 7.93 percent when 3,612,637,118 total options contracts were exchanged. Equity options volume reached 3,610,436,931 contracts, 7.23 percent higher than the 3,366,967,321 contracts traded the previous year.
The volume traded in 2010 marks the eighth consecutive year a new annual trading volume record has been set, and the 17th occurrence in the last 18 years.
Six of the top ten highest volume record days were set in 2010, including the top three.
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Source: Options Industry Council (OIC)
Horizons AlphaPro Fiera Tactical Bond Fund completes conversion to ETF
December 31, 2011-- AlphaPro Management Inc. ("AlphaPro") is pleased to announce the conversion of the Horizons AlphaPro Fiera Tactical Bond Fund (the "Fund") into an open-end exchange traded fund. The Fund has been renamed Horizons AlphaPro Tactical Bond ETF (the "ETF") and the Class E units of the ETF (the "Class E Units") will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on January 4, 2010, under the symbol HAF.
The ETF's investment objectives are to provide the holders of Class E Units with: (i) a stable stream of tax efficient monthly distributions; and (ii) the opportunity for capital appreciation through exposure to a tactical asset allocation strategy that focuses on the returns of fixed income securities.
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Source: AlphaTrade Finance
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes In The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index
December 31, 2010--Standard & Poor's will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, December 31, 2010:
Lexam Exploration Inc. (TSXVN:LEX) will be removed from the index.
The shares of the company have been acquired by VG Gold Corp. pursuant to an Arrangement Agreement.
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
Brazil strikes back in currency war
December 31, 2010-- Brazil's incoming President Dilma Rousseff is planning aggressive measures including targeted tariff increases and tax breaks to address damage caused to manufacturers by the country's overvalued currency.
The strength of the real, which by one measure is the world's most overvalued major currency, has been the main economic issue in Rousseff's recent meetings with advisers ahead of her inauguration on January 1, sources close to the incoming government told Reuters.
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Source: FIN24
iShares files with the SEC
December 30, 2010--iShares has filed a pre-effective amendment to Form S-1 with the SEC for the iShares Copper Trust.
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Source: SEC.gov
Global X files with the SEC
December 30, 2010--Global X has filed a post-effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
Global X FTSE Nordic Region ETF (GXF)
Global X FTSE Norway 30 ETF (NORW)
Global X FTSE Denmark 30 ETF
Global X FTSE Finland 30 ETF
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Source: SEC.gov
AdvisorShares files with the SEC
December 30, 2010--AdvisorShares has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
AdvisorShares Tactical ETF
NYSE Arca Ticker: MATH.
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Source: SEC.gov
ProShares files with the SEC
December 30, 2010--ProShares has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC. This post-effective amendment relates only to the following new series of ProShares Trust: Ultra iBoxx Liquid Investment Grade, UltraPro iBoxx Liquid Investment Grade, UltraPro Short iBoxx Liquid Investment Grade, Ultra iBoxx Liquid High Yield, UltraPro iBoxx Liquid High Yield,
UltraPro Short iBoxx Liquid High Yield, Short Barclays Aggregate Bond, Ultra Barclays Aggregate Bond, Ultra Short Barclays Aggregate Bond, UltraPro Barclays Aggregate Bond, UltraPro Short Barclays Aggregate Bond, UltraPro,Municipal Bond, Ultra, Municipal Bond, Short, Municipal Bond, Ultra Short, Municipal Bond, and UltraPro Short Municipal Bond.
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Source: SEC.gov
