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EU court rejects British suit against short-selling ban
January 23, 2014--The European Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected a British suit that the EU securities authority does not have the right to ban short-selling,, a practice widely blamed for stoking financial market volatility.
The ruling followed a May 2012 action brought by Britain claiming the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) had been given excessive powers to regulate or ban short selling in case of stress on the markets.
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Source: EUbusiness
Eurozone activity hits 31-month high as recovery speeds up
January 23, 2014-- Activity in the eurozone private sector economy rose to a 31-month high in January as economic recovery gathered pace across the region, a key indicator showed on Thursday.
Markit Economics said its Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for January rose to 53.2 points against 52.1 in December, the seventh monthly rise running and the fastest rate of growth since June 2011.
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Source: EUbusiness
Six Swiss Exchange-iShares to list 14 more ETFs on diverse indices
January 23, 2014--iShares to list 14 ETFs on the Six Swiss Exchange on January 24, 2014.
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Source: SIX Swiss Exchange
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy -ETF Research - European Weekly ETF Market Review
January 22, 2014--The most recent issue of the European Weekly ETF Market Review is now available.
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Source: Deutsche Bank-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy- Europe
Fidelity undercuts Hargreaves Lansdown with new fees
January 22, 2014--Fidelity Personal Investing has introduced a new charging structure that aims to beat rival platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown.
The majority of its customers - those with accounts worth up to £250,000-will pay a fee equivalent to 0.35 per cent of their holdings, while wealthier clients with accounts between £250,000 and £1 million will pay just 0.2 per cent a year.
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Source: Money Observer
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Europe ETF+ Quarterly Directory -Q4 2013 ETPs
January 21, 2014--The updated version of the European ETP directory. This document includes all European domiciled exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded commodities (ETCs).
The directory is organised by asset class and it has been sorted by benchmark exposure and by ETF issuer, in alphabetical order. A number of key information per product have been included in order to enable the reader to get an overview in their respective area of interest.
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Source: Deutsche Bank-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Europe
Boost Research-Risk-on sentiment has legs: equities are still good value relative to bonds
January 21, 2014--Summary
Equities are still good value. According to Boost's Market Model (see Appendix for full explanation), equities are still trading close to fair value relative to current bond yields
Previous equity market cycles show that substantial overvaluation relative to bonds is needed to trigger a sell off. Given current valuations, that is far from being the case
Bullish sentiment in broad equity markets may continue even with further modest bond yield increases. Safe haven assets could continue to come under further pressure
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Source: Boost
Comment: It's the ETF marketplace that is not yet fit for purpose
Problem is not the product says Mark Hemsley of Bats Chi-X Europe
January 20, 2014--In the global hunt for return, you would be forgiven for thinking that investors around the world would be united in their appetite for low-cost, transparent solutions that generate income, particularly if they could pay lower management fees.
But a cursory glance at the global exchange traded funds market suggests that this is not the case.
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Source: FT.com
Borsa Italiana: ETFstat December 2013
January 20, 2014--Listings
In December 6 new ETFs and 4 new ETCs were listed bringing to 125 the number of new instruments listed on ETFplus market in 2013 (110 ETFs and 15 ETCs/ETNs).
At the end of December 2013 there were listed 835 instruments (658 ETFs and 177 ETCs/ETNs)
Trading
Borsa Italiana in 2013 has confirmed its leadership in Europe' for number of trades on eletronic platform in ETFs, the ranking has been lead since 2005
Also in December Borsa Italiana was the second European Exchange* for on book turnover with a market share of 16,59%, up by 15,08% compared to December 2012
AUM
At the end of 2013, the Asset Under Management (AUM) deposited in Italy set a new historical record reaching 26.725 bn of Euros (24.838 bn of Euros for ETFs and 1.887 for ETCs) with a grow of 28.97% compared to the end of 2012
Inflows
During 2013, the ETFs listed on ETFplus market set a total net inflow of 5.616 bn of Euros, representing the 31.40% of total European inflows
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Source: Borsa Italiana
New futures and options based on ATX and other Eastern European indices/ Launch on 10 February 2014
January 20, 2014--The international derivatives market Eurex Exchange will offer four new index derivatives as of 10 February 2014.
The market introduction of futures and options on the ATX(R),ATX(R) five,CECE(R) EUR and RDX(R) EUR indices is based on the licence agreement with Wiener Börse AG,which was signed in October 2013.
Source: Eurex
