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Boerse Stuttgart generates turnover of around EUR 8.6 billion in February
Trading volume up on February 2014//Brisk trading in corporate bonds
March 3, 2015--According to its order book statistics, turnover at Boerse Stuttgart amounted to around EUR 8.6 billion in February 2015. This meant the trading volume was down in comparison with January, when turnover was particularly high, but up by almost 7 percent year on year.
Securitised derivatives accounted for the largest share of the turnover. The trading volume in this asset class was approximately EUR 4 billion-an increase of almost 19 percent compared with February 2014. Turnover from leverage products was over EUR 2.1 billion-more than 26 percent higher than in February 2014. At around EUR 1.9 billion, turnover from investment products was up more than 11 percent year on year.
STOXX announces component changes to STOXX Eastern Europe 50 Index
March 3, 2015--STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced component changes in the STOXX Eastern Europe 50 Index due to the regular semi-annual review.
All changes become effective with the open of markets on Mar. 23, 2015.
Turnover at Deutsche Boerse's cash markets at 125.5 billion euros in February
March 2, 2015-Order book turnover on Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange across all asset classes stood at €125.5 billion in February (February 2014: €102.6 billion).
Of the €125.5 billion, €113.4 billion were attributable to Xetra (February 2014: €93.4 billion). The average daily turnover on Xetra stood at €5.7 billion in February (February 2014: €4.7 billion).
A turnover of €4.9 billion was attributable to Börse Frankfurt (February 2014: €4.7 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange* totalled approximately €7.2 billion in February (February 2014: €4.6 billion).
Russia Moves to Shore Up Budget
Finance minister outlines cuts in social and maybe even military spending as well as raising pension age
March 2, 2015--Faced with lower oil prices and a slowing economy, Russia needs to trim its budget,
possibly even military spending, and raise its pension age, the country's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Monday.
ETF Flows Show Investors Flocking to the Eurozone
March 2, 2015--The steady stream of evidence that shows investors barelling back into eurozone equities just got its latest datapoint: Exchange-traded funds with eurozone exposure received inflows of $19.3 billion so far this year
.according to figures from data firm Markit, following two consecutive quarters of outflows.
IMF Working paper-A Global Projection Model for Euro Area Large Economies
March 2, 2015-- Summary: The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. This paper creates a special version of GPM that includes the four largest Euro Area (EA) countries.
The EA countries are more vulnerable to domestic and external demand shocks because adjustments in the real exchange rate between EA countries occur more gradually through inflation differentials. Spillovers from tight credit conditions in each EA country are limited by direct trade channels and small confidence spillovers, but we also consider scenarios where banks in all EU countries tighten credit conditions simultaneously.
view the IMF Working paper-A Global Projection Model for Euro Area Large Economies
European Banking Authority Delivers Benchmarking Package
March 2, 2015--The European Banking Authority (EBA) published a set of papers for benchmarking the internal approaches that EU institutions use to calculate own-funds requirements for credit and market risk exposures. The EBA final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) specify in detail the framework for EU institutions and competent authorities to carry out the annual supervisory benchmarking foreseen by the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV).
he EBA also issued its response to a call for advice by the European Commission's on the benchmarking process. This work is part of the EBA's efforts to address possible inconsistencies in the calculation of risk weighted assets (RWAs) across the EU Single Market and to ultimately restore confidence in EU banks' capital and internal models.
DeAWM's db X-trackers ETFs introduces range of interest rate hedged fixed income ETF share classes
February 28, 2015--Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) has launched a range of interest rate hedged fixed income ETF share classes.
The range includes a rates hedged version of its highly successful ETF providing exposure to higher yielding Eurozone sovereign debt, which generated significant inflows in 2013...
Fund sales slump in January
February 27, 2015--Sales of investment funds to retail investors totalled just €320m in January, little more than a quarter of the €1.25bn sold in the same month last year, when optimism about equity markets was high.
According to data from the Investment Association, UK equity income funds remained the best sellers, drawing net inflows of €280m.
Financial Stability Paper 33: A European Capital Markets Union: implications for growth and stability
February 27, 2015--Capital Markets Union (CMU) is an overarching term used to describe a number of possible measures aimed at diversifying and integrating European capital markets to support economic growth and stability.
This paper examines the mechanisms through which CMU could help to achieve these objectives, namely better matching of savers and borrowers and improved private-sector risk sharing, and identifies potential reform areas.
