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Wall Street's SPAC craze scales new heights with record filings
February 12, 2021--Richard Branson and Barry Sternlicht were among more than two dozen investor groups that filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise new blank-check acquisition companies, setting a new record.
The 28 filings for new special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) underscore their growing appeal on Wall Street. SPACs raised a record $82 billion last year, and the trend has gathered further steam in the early weeks of 2021.
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Source: reuters.com
T Rowe Price eliminates brokerage commissions on third-party ETFs
February 11, 2021--The change also applies to stocks and follows similar fee cuts by other brokerages
T Rowe Price will drop commissions on online purchases of third-party ETFs and stocks in its brokerage accounts, joining other trading platforms that have slashed fees for retail customers.
The change will take effect on March 1, a company spokesperson confirmed.
Currently, investors with T Rowe brokerage accounts pay $19.95 for each online trade of a stock or ETF.view more
Source: FT.com
CBO-The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2021 to 2031
February 11, 2021--If current laws governing taxes and spending generally remain unchanged, CBO projects, in 2021, the federal budget deficit will total $2.3 trillion, federal debt will reach 102 percent of GDP, and real GDP will grow by 3.7 percent.
The Congressional Budget Office regularly publishes reports presenting projections of what federal budget deficits, debt, revenues, and spending-and the economic path underlying them-would be for the current year and for the following 10 years if current laws governing taxes and spending generally remained unchanged.
For this report, the latest in the series, the projections are based on the laws in effect as of January 12, 2021. CBO's economic assessment is identical to the forecast the agency published on February 1, 2021.
CBO projects a federal budget deficit of $2.3 trillion in 2021, nearly $900 billion less than the shortfall recorded in 2020. At 10.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit in 2021 would be the second largest since 1945, exceeded only by the 14.9 percent shortfall recorded last year.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
NYSE, Nasdaq sue SEC over new market data infrastructure rule
February 10, 2021--Three U.S. stock exchange giants have sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its recent rule to beef up critical market data feeds.
Nasdaq Inc., the New York Stock Exchange and Cboe Global Markets Inc. recently filed petitions for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the regulator's market data infrastructure rule, according to court records.
Passed unanimously in December 2020, the SEC's rule was intended to address long-standing concerns among banks and broker/dealers that the consolidated equity trading feeds that power ticker tapes across Wall Street do not hold weight up against the richer and pricier proprietary data feeds sold by Nasdaq, the Intercontinental Exchange Inc.-owned NYSE and Cboe.
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Source: spglobal.com
Direct indexing looks set to disrupt the retail ETF market
February 10, 2021--Industry participants expect bespoke ETF index customisation will become widespread.
So-called "direct indexing" is spreading its wings beyond the very wealthy in the US and threatening to disrupt the rapidly growing global retail market for exchange traded funds.
The nascent concept allows investors to customise existing indices to create bespoke portfolios tailored to meet their personal preferences for investment factors, such as tilts to value or quality, their personal environmental, social and governance (ESG) beliefs, and potentially to minimise tax liabilities.
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Source: FT.com
Roundhill Launches Streaming ETF (NYSE: SUBZ)
February 10, 2021--Roundhill Investments ("Roundhill") has launched the Roundhill Streaming Services & Technology ETF (NYSE ARCA: SUBZ), the first ETF globally designed to invest in companies in the streaming sector.
"Media streaming continues to grow rapidly as more consumers abandon traditional media and subscribe to a select number of streaming services. This transition, accelerated over recent years, has taken place across multiple industries including video, audio, and even gaming," said Roundhill Investments Portfolio Manager Mario Stefanidis.
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Source: Roundhill Investments
UBS launches seven new 2x Leveraged US Factor ETNs
February 10, 2021-UBS Investment Bank today announced the recent listing of seven new 2x Leveraged US Factor ETNs specified in the table below.
ETN Ticker: SCDL
ETN Name: ETRACS 2x Leveraged US Dividend Factor TR ETN
ETN CUSIP: 90278V206
Underlying Index Bloomberg Ticker: DJUSDIVT
ETN Ticker: IWFL
ETN Name: ETRACS 2x Leveraged US Growth Factor TR ETN
ETN CUSIP: 90278V305
Underlying Index Bloomberg Ticker: RU10GRTR
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Source: ubs.com
Fallen angel ETFs face potential fall from grace
February 9, 2021--Investors who bought the Fallen Angel ETF at a low price in 2020 benefited from stellar returns by the end of the year, Potential return to inflation According to some industry insiders, 2021 could have a negative impact on this market.
The number of fallen angels (investment grade bonds downgraded to junk status) surged last year as bonds for companies in the energy, transportation, retail and leisure sectors were downgraded during the coronavirus pandemic. Did. Price to slide. However, while most of these bonds recovered within the year, 2021 could be another issue.
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Source: ft.com
CBO-Monthly Budget Review: January 2021
February 8, 2021--The federal budget deficit was $738 billion in the first four months of fiscal year 2021, the Congressional Budget Office estimates-$348 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last year. Outlays were 23 percent higher and revenues were 1 percent higher from October through January than during the same perod in fiscal year 2020.
Outlays during the first four months of fiscal year 2020 were boosted by shifts in the timing of certain payments that otherwise would have been due at the beginning of February 2020, which fell on a weekend. Those shifts increased outlays through January 2020 by $55 billion. If not for those shifts, the deficit this year (through January 2021) would have been more than twice the $335 billion shortfall during the same period in fiscal year 2020. That substantial difference is largely the result of the economic disruption caused by the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic and the federal government's response to it.
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Source: CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
Social media sentiment ETF to launch in wake of Reddit rebellion
February 8, 2021--VanEck's decision to license the Buzz index breathes new life into an old idea that failed
The Reddit rebellion might have died down for the moment, but New York asset manager VanEck is betting that there is long term value in listening to social media chat and is launching a social sentiment exchange traded fund.
The fund will invest in the stocks being most talked up on social media and appropriately enough, the company most likely to be sent "to the moon" by the new ETF is Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space tourism company, currently the largest stock in the underlying index.
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Source: FT.com
