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CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
January 31, 2018--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
January 31, 2018--Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a solid rate.
Gains in employment, household spending, and business fixed investment have been solid, and the unemployment rate has stayed low. On a 12-month basis, both overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy have continued to run below 2 percent. Market-based measures of inflation compensation have increased in recent months but remain low; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
REX VolMAXX Short Volatility ETF (VMIN) Finished 2017 as Best Performing ETF (Non-levered) in USA
January 30, 2018--REX Shares, LLC (REX) today announced its short volatility fund, the REX VolMAXX Short VIX Futures Strategy Fund was the best performing ETF in the U.S., excluding leveraged products, for calendar year 2017 according to Bloomberg data.
Over the course of the year, VMIN turned in a total return of +190.57%*. Launched in 2016, VMIN provides short exposure to movements in the VIX Index.
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Source: REX
Innovation Shares Launches "KOIN", First AI Powered ETF To Provide Investors Access To Blockchain Innovators And Adopters
January 30, 2018--Patent-pending AI powered approach uses a natural language processing algorithm to screen for global stocks.
Innovation Shares LLC, a sponsor of unique thematic Exchange Traded Funds, is today announcing the launch of the Innovation Shares NextGen Protocol ETF (NYSE Arca: KOIN), the first exchange-traded fund to use artificial intelligence to identify and invest in blockchain innovators and adopters.
KOIN tracks an index designed to give investors exposure to global stocks that are participating in the growth of blockchain technology, which is being applied across a number of industries. KOIN's underlying index places stocks in one of four categories based on how they relate to the theme: 1. Cryptocurrency as payment; 2. Mining enablers; 3. Solutions providers; and 4. Adopters.*
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Source: Innovation Shares LLC
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Launches JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Sovereign Bond ETF: JPMB
January 30, 2018--Provides improved access to emerging market debt
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) announced today the launch of the JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Sovereign Bond ETF (JPMB), which tracks the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Risk-Aware Bond Index, created by JPMAM's Quantitative Beta Strategies team and derived from J.P. Morgan's Corporate & Investment Bank flagship JPMorgan EMBI Global Diversified Index.
JPMB aims to provide exposure to USD denominated sovereign debt across emerging markets. The index utilizes a rules-based, three-step process that filters for liquidity, country risk and allocates risk based on credit rating. It invests 80% of its assets in securities included in the underlying index and will rebalance its portfolio on a monthly basis within each country and semi-annually across countries in accordance with the rebalancing of the underlying index .
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Source: J.P. Morgan Asset Management
12 Solactive benchmarks used as the basis for 12 new ETFs issued by Mackenzie Investments
January 29, 2018--Mackenzie Investments, a leading investment management firm headquartered in
Toronto, announced the launch of 12 ETFs this week, all of which will be tracking
Solactive benchmark indices.
These indices are part of a growing range of Solactive benchmarks aimed at providing broad-based access to different segments of the equity and fixed-income markets with country, regional, and global exposure through marketcap-weighted strategies.
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Source: Solactive
Vanguard warns of strengthening 'predators' in ETF market.
January 29, 2018-- Vanguard fears that 'predators' are taking advantage of exchange traded funds at the expense of retail investors and hopes that an expected overhaul by US regulators will not mandate perfect transparency for the booming $4.8tn industry.
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Source: FT.com
New Blockchain-Based Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (BLOK) Surpasses $170M in AUM
January 29, 2018--Actively-managed blockchain-focused ETF reaches key milestone in first 8 trading days
Amplify ETFs has announced its newly launched blockchain-focused ETF, the Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (NYSE Arca: BLOK), continues to generate strong investor interest and has surpassed $170 million in assets under management in its first eight trading days.
BLOK, which began trading on Jan. 17, provides access to an actively-managed basket of global companies at the forefront of blockchain-based technology.
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Source: Amplify ETFs
AdvisorShares Weekly Market Review-Four Weeks Of Gains To Start 2018? Don't Mind If We Do
January 29, 2018--Highlights of the Week Ending 1/26/2018
Macro
There is no shortage of superlatives for how domestic equities have started 2018. The year to date numbers for the indexes are in the 7's and 8's percentage-wise. For the week the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 2.06%, the S&P 500 was up 2.20%, the NASDAQ rallied 2.25% and the Russell 2000 lagged with 63 basis points.
There is plenty of opinion and data to support the idea that equities have entered some sort of euphoric blow-off stage and we have no pushback to that notion but people have been predicting imminent doom for months, even years but equities have continued higher at an accelerating rate. We have maintained that nothing thus far indicated the start of a rolling over in the broad markets.There is plenty of opinion and data to support the idea that equities have entered some sort of euphoric blow-off stage and we have no pushback to that notion but people have been predicting imminent doom for months, even years but equities have continued higher at an accelerating rate. We have maintained that nothing thus far indicated the start of a rolling over in the broad markets.
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Source: AdvisorShares
ETF minnows struggle to catch up to giants
January 29, 2018--Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street dominate an industry that is tough for smaller players
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Source: FT.com
