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Statement Regarding Progress on the Review of the U.S. Treasury Market Structure since the July 2015 Joint Staff Report
August 2, 2016--The U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Joint Member Agencies) today issued this statement to highlight significant actions taken since the issuance last July of their Joint Staff Report on the U.S. Treasury market, including the recently signed memorandum of understanding to share information on U.S. Treasury cash and related derivative markets among the agencies and their plans to host a second conference on October 24 to continue progress on these efforts.
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Source: SEC.gov
AdvisorShares--Weekly Market Review -There Is No Playbook
August 1, 2016--Highlights of the Prior week of July 25-July 29
Macro
In this past week's AdvisorShares AlphaCall, Bob Boyd from
Pacific Asset Management said that there was no playbook for
how to come out of the type of recession that occurred in 2008.
The various monetary and fiscal policies implemented have of
course helped, there has been a recovery but the strength of
that recovery, based on certain metrics, has been historically
weak including when measured by GDP. Q2 GDP of coursereporte d on Friday at 1.2% annualized growth which was a
wide miss and Q1 was revised down to 0.8%.
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Source: AdvisorShares
CBOE Holdings Reports July 2016 Trading Volume
August 1, 2106--Total Volume of 94.4 Million Contracts
Total ADV Down 2% from July 2015
CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) reported today that July average daily volume (ADV) for options contracts traded on Chicago Board Options Exchange(R) (CBOE(R)) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), and futures contracts traded on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE(R)) was 4.7 million contracts, a decrease of 2 percent from July 2015 and 9 percent from June 2016.
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Source: CBOE
Treasury Announces Marketable Borrowing Estimates
August 1, 2016--The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced its current estimates of net marketable borrowing for the July-September 2016 and October-December 2016 quarters:
During the July-September 2016 quarter, Treasury expects to borrow $201 billion in net marketable debt, assuming an end-of-September cash balance of $350 billion.
This borrowing estimate is $47 billion higher than announced in May 2016. The increase in borrowing is due primarily to a higher end-of-quarter cash balance estimate and lower receipts.
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Source: US Department of the Treasury
AltaVista-August 2016 ETF Analyzer--Sector SPDR Edition
August 1, 2016--The AltaVista-August 2016 ETF Analyzer--Sector SPDR Edition is now available.
Succinct reports in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition
Evaluate Sector SPDRs based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis
Compare Sector SPDRs with ease on a variety of forward-looking valuation metrics
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Source: AltaVista Research
O'Shares Completes First Year Anniversary with Strong Performance and Asset Growth
Outperformance by All Five O'Shares ETFs Launched in 2015
August 30, 2016--The O'Shares family of large cap dividend ETFs have all recently completed a successful first year since listing on the NYSE.
All five O,Shares ETFs (OUSA, OEUR, OEUH, OASI & OAPH) have outperformed their relevant benchmark, providing greater total return, more yield and generally lower volatility in their first year.
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Source: O'Shares Investments
CBOE to Broaden Distribution of MSCI Index Data
July 29, 2016--MSCI Emerging Markets and MSCI EAFE Indexes Measure International Equity Market Performance
CBOE Provides Options on MSCI Global Indexes
The Chicago Board Options Exchange(R) (CBOE(R)) today announced plans to broaden data distribution to investors who want to track and trade options on the widely followed MSCI Emerging Markets (ticker symbol: MXEF) and MSCI EAFE (ticker symbol: MXEA) I
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Source: CBOE
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
July 29, 2016--The current reports for the week of July 26, 2016 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Schwab's ETF empire gaining on BlackRock and Vanguard
July 29, 2016--For the past 12 months, assets in the discount broker's funds grew 39.7%, to $47.9 billion
In the battle of ETF giants-Vanguard, BlackRock, and now Fidelity-don't overlook Charles Schwab & Co., which is emerging as one of the fastest growing ETF providers, according to S&P Capital IQ.
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Source: Investment News
U.S. Economy Grew Less-Than-Forecast 1.2% in Second Quarter
July 29, 2016--Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg forecast 2.5% expansion
Report raises risk to outlook as Fed looks for improvements
The U.S. economy expanded less than forecast in the second quarter after a weaker start to the year than previously estimated as companies slimmed down inventories and remained wary of investing amid shaky global demand.
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Source: Bloomberg
