Eurozone industrial prices rise in November
January 6, 2010--Eurozone industrial production prices rose by 0.1 percent in November, in a retreat from an upwardly-revised 0.3 percent recorded in October, official EU statistics showed on Wednesday.
Across the 27-nation European Union as a whole, which also includes Britain and eastern industrial powerhouse Poland, the prices rise was pegged at 0.2 percent, down from the previous month's similarly-revised 0.6 percent.
Compared to one year earlier, November industrial producer prices dropped by a significantly less severe 4.4 percent in the euro area and by 3.2 percent across the full bloc.
EEX trading results for Natural Gas and CO2 Emission Allowances in December
January 6, 2010--2010. In December, the total Spot Market volume for Natural Gas
(Gaspool and NCG market areas) was 502,488 MWh (December 2008: 88,080 MWh). This volume includes 7,656 MWh traded in the Natural Gas auction launched on 15 July 2009.
The Spot Market price for the day-ahead delivery of Natural Gas ranged
between EUR 7.50 per MWh and EUR 15.05 per MWh.
The volumes on the Derivatives Market for Natural Gas (Gaspool and NCG market areas) amounted to 930,160 MWh (December 2008: 778,470 MWh). On 30 December 2009, the open interest was 5,849,270 MWh. On 28 December 2009 Natural Gas prices for delivery in 2010 were fixed at EUR 13.87 per MWh (Gaspool) and EUR 14.10 per MWh (NCG), respectively.
EEX Power Derivatives/EPEX Spot: Power Trading Results in December
January 6, 2010--In the framework of their cooperation European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) and the French Powernext SA have integrated their Power Spot and Derivatives Markets.
In December 2009, a total volume of 85.7 TWh was traded on the joint subsidiaries
EPEX Spot SE and EEX Power Derivatives.
Power trading in the day-ahead auction on EPEX Spot accounted for in total 17,984,051 MWh of this and can be broken down as follows:
CESR publishes an update on the assessment of the proposals for MiFID pre-trade transparency waivers
January 6, 2010--
06 Jan. 2010 - The MiFID compliance of these functionalities has been assessed at CESR level on the basis of the new joint process that CESR launched in February 2009.
The table (Ref. CESR/09-324) includes information on a new assessments made at CESR level regarding an application for a waiver to be granted on the basis of the MiFID Implementing Regulation that CESR considered not to be compliant with MiFID.
ETF Landscape: European DJ STOXX 600 Sector ETF Net Flows week ending 31-Dec-09
January 7,2010--Highlights
Last week saw US$7.0 Mn net inflows to DJ STOXX 600 sector ETFs. The largest sector ETF inflows last week were in Oil & Gas with US$37.1 Mn and Banks with US$32.7 Mn while Construction & Materials experienced net outflows of US$25.4 Mn.
Year-to-date, Telecommunications has been the most popular sector with US$409.2 Mn net new assets, followed by Basic Resources with US$402.5 Mn net inflows. Financial Services ETFs have been the least popular with US$35.6 Mn net outflows YTD.