Americas ETP News
If your looking for specific news, using the search function will narrow down the results
ISE Reports Business Activity for December and Full Year 2014
January 2, 2015--For full year 2014, ISE and ISE Gemini combined for 16.0% equity options market share, excluding dividend trades, with an ADV of 2.4 million contracts.
ISE Gemini had an ADV of over 500,000 contracts in 2014.
Dividend trades made up 1.6% of industry volume in 2014, the lowest since ISE began tracking the statistic in 2010.
view more
Source: ISE
CFTC Provides Notice and Clarification of the Reopened Comment Period for its Rulemaking Proposals on Position Limits for Physical Commodity Derivatives and Aggregation
January 2, 2015--The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has submitted for publication in the Federal Register a clarification and notice regarding the
reopened comment periods for two Position Limit rulemakings.
view more
Source: CFTC.gov
Can Wall Street reform survive 2015?
January 1, 2015--In the final weeks of 2014, critics of President Obama's Wall Street reform scored their biggest victory to date, rolling back a new regulation on derivatives.
But it's just the first act of the GOP’s battle against the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, as Republicans hope to make a bigger imprint as they take control of both houses of Congress.
view more
Source: msnbc.com
Horizons ETFs to close four funds March 13
December 31, 2014--Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. will be terminating certain exchange-traded funds effective at the close of business on Friday, March 13, 2015.
The ETFs being terminated are listed ..
ETF: Horizons BetaPro MSCI Emerging Markets Bull Plus ETF
Symbol:HJU
ETF: Horizons BetaPro MSCI Emerging Markets Bear Plus ETF
Symbol: HJD
view more
Source: stockwatch.com
"ALPS Medical Breakthroughs ETF" Looks to Capitalize on New Era for Drug Companies
December 31, 2014--ALPS, a DST Company focused on asset management and asset servicing, today announced the launch of the ALPS Medical Breakthroughs ETF (NYSE Arca: SBIO), the first exchange-traded fund built specifically to capture R&D opportunities in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
The Fund has been designed to track the performance the Poliwogg Medical Breakthroughs Index SM (PMBI), a modified cap-weighted index consisting of small-cap and mid-cap pharmaceutical and biotechnology stocks listed on U.S. stock exchanges that have one or more drugs in either Phase II or Phase III U.S. FDA clinical trials. view more
Source: Business Wire
S&P Dow Jones Indices-Latin America Index Dashboard
December 31, 2014--Latin American equities ended 2014 in the red across the board. The S&P Latin America BMI and the S&P MILA Andean 40 declined 13% and 14%, respectively.
Colombia and Brazil were the weakest performers, down 17% and 15% on the year, respectively. Technology was the only sector of the S&P Latin America BMI that did not end the year in negative territory (up 9%), while Energy was the weakest performer, declining 39% in 2014.
U.S. equities outperformed every other developed market in 2014 with a third straight year of double digit gains.
view more
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
S&P Dow Jones Indices-Canada Index Dashboard
December 31, 2014--Canadian equities enjoyed a prosperous 2014, with the S&P/TSX Composite and the S&P/TSX 60 gaining 11% and 12%, respectively.
Defensive strategies thrived, with the S&P/TSX Composite Low Volatility index ending the year up 17%.
The strongest performing sector of the S&P/TSX Composite in 2014 was Consumer Staples (49%). Energy was the weakest performer, down 5%.
view more
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
CFTC.gov Swaps Report Update
December 31, 2014--CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.
view more
Source: CFTC.gov
Energy Bargain Hunters Plow Record Amounts Into ETFs
December 30, 2014--Bargain-seeking investors have turned bullish on embattled energy stocks, plowing record amounts into the industry.
More than $3.13 billion went into exchange-traded funds holding stakes in Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) and other energy stocks this month, even as the price of oil fell 22 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
view more
Source: Bloomberg
Fed Downplays Worries About Leveraged ETFs
December 30, 2014--Concerns that leveraged exchange-traded funds could fuel undue market volatility are misplaced because they ignore the offsetting effects from capital flows on the need for the funds to adjust to the benchmarks they track, according to two Federal Reserve Board economists.
The Securities and Exchange Commission specifically cited worries about the use of derivatives products in mutual funds in a 2010 review. It has since issued guidance for buy-and-hold investors warning of "extra risks" from the products.
The Fed itself flagged the products as potentially problematic in a 2012 paper.
view more
Source: Wall Street Journal
