Lyxor loses $7.3bn of ETF outflows in 2019 amid sale speculation
September 2, 2019--Lyxor has been hit by large outflows from its $67.8bn exchange traded funds business amid speculation that the Paris-based asset manager could be sold by its parent Société Générale.
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Turkey's economy grows faster than predicted in second quarter
September 2, 2019--Fears over double-dip recession ease as GDP expands by 1.2 per cent
Year on year, the economy was 1.5 per cent smaller than the same quarter in 2018-a less severe shrinkage than the 2 per cent that analysts polled by Reuters had expected.
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Portfolio managers reduce equity exposure in Britain
August 31, 2019--Portfolio managers reduce equity exposure in Britain after Boris Johnson’s rise to power
More than $4bn has been pulled from UK equity funds since Theresa May announced her decision to step down as Britain's prime minister as..
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Short-sellers eye carbon-market bets on hard Brexit
August 29, 2019--Speculators are hoping to reap a windfall by shorting the EU carbon market as traders bet that prices will be hit in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
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Monetary developments in the euro area: July 2019
August 28, 2019--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 5.2% in July 2019 from 4.5% in June
Annual growth rate of narrower monetary aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, increased to 7.8% in July from 7.2% in June
nnual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 3.4% in July, compared with 3.3% in June
Annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations stood at 3.9% in July, unchanged from previous month
ING issues ESG-linked interest rate swap
August 26, 2019--Dutch bank takes carrot-and-stick approach on interest rate swap for oil and gas equipment firm
In 2017, ING issued the world's first sustainability'linked loan. This month, it went a step further, putting together the world’s first sustainability-linked interest rate swap, where the rate the client pays goes up or down in line with its environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.
Deutsche Borse welcomes Tabula as new ETF issuer
August 23, 2019--Since Friday, an ETF of the issuer Tabula ICAV has been tradable on Xetra and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for the first time. This means that ETFs from a total of 26 different issuers are now listed in Frankfurt.
"We are pleased to have gained Tabula ICAV as another new ETF issuer for Xetra trading. The first ETF from the Tabula product series expands our range of bond ETFs with additional access to the credit default swap market," says Martin Reck, Managing Director Cash Market at Deutsche B&ouuml;rse.
The Tabula J.P. Morgan Global Credit Volatility Premium Index UCITS ETF tracks the difference between realised and implied volatility in the markets for credit default swap (CDS) index options. The index reflects the performance of put options on European and North American High Yield CDS indices and hedges the risk of credit spreads daily through delta hedging.
Ossiam releases leveraged US Steepener ETF with Solactive index
August 21, 2019--At the moment, the US Treasury yield curve sits in the focus of investors. The reason the curve receives such attention lies in its slope, which is as flat as it was way back in 2007. To grant investors the opportunity to benefit from a potential steepening of the US Treasury yield curve, French Asset Manager Ossiam issued its Ossiam US Steepener UCITS ETF on August 19th at Deutsche Börse Xetra, tracking the Solactive US Treasury Yield Curve Steepener 2-5 vs 10-30 Index.
The strategy of the Solactive US Treasury Yield Curve Steepener 2-5 vs 10-30 Index consists of a long/short strategy, which places a long position in two-year and five-year US Treasury bond futures and a short position in ten-year and thirty-year US Treasury bond futures.
Euro area investment fund statistics: second quarter of 2019
August 16, 2019--In the second quarter of 2019 the outstanding amount of shares/units issued by investment funds other than money market funds stood at €12,067 billion, which was €266 billion higher than in the first quarter of 2019.
The outstanding amount of shares/units issued by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) stood at €734 billion, which was €21 billion higher than in the first quarter of 2019.
The outstanding amount of shares/units issued by money market funds was €1,154 billion, €15 billion lower than in the first quarter of 2019.
LSE's Longest Glitch in 8 Years Disrupts Trading in Big Stocks
August 16, 2019--Stock trading was delayed for FTSE 100, FTSE 250 members
Outage is also second for U.K. exchange in just over a year.
The London Stock Exchange Group Plc suffered its longest glitch in 8 years, just weeks after the three-century old exchange unveiled plans to become a data and trading powerhouse.