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Moscow Exchange will migrate to a new format of the Stock market data dissemination on February 17, 2014
November 19, 2013--Moscow Exchange would like to announce that it migrates to a new format of the Stock market data dissemination on February 17, 2014. This implies that the only data available for the vendors' clients, using terminals and other products containing the Exchange market data,
will be the data from the Main Market, while the market data from the "Standard" and "Classica" sectors will be available since February 17, 2014 only to the trading members connected directly to the Exchange. The move relates to the introduction of the T+ settlement cycle on the Exchange's Stock market and optimization of the market data streams.
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Source: Moscow Exchange
Net $8.7 bln FDI entered Turkey in first nine months
November 19, 2013--Approximately $8.7 billion of net foreign direct investment (FDI) entered Turkey in the first nine months of the year, according to data released by the Ministry of Economy on Tuesday.
Out of the total FDI of $8.698 billion in the first nine months, $3.321 billion entered the economy via operations of intermediary financial institutions, $1.215 billion came from the electricity, gas and water sector and $1.187 billion from the manufacturing sector. Also, 60.5 percent of the cash capital came from European Union countries. The FDI entry in September totaled $770 million in which $528 million came from the European Union, $169 million from Asian economies while the rest entered from other countries. Also, 56 foreign-funded companies were established in Turkey in September.
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Source: Today's Zaman
Boost Trade Idea-Disinflation pressures commodities, feeds equities amidst dovish Fed (tickers 3UKL, 2JAL, 3GOS, 3OIS)
November 19, 2013--Disinflation pressures commodities, feeds equities amidst dovish Fed
Summary
Janet Yellen's statements in her confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee are dovish. With tapering set to be off the table for at least until the end of the year, the rally in equities may extend itself further out.
Signs of weakening economic growth in the West, together with inflation indicators hitting new lows, are reviving deflation fears. Combined with signals from Brussels and Washington pointing towards fiscal discipline, the disinflationary outlook is undermining commodities.
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Source: Boost
Euro area investment fund statistics
November 19, 2013--In September 2013, the amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment
funds other than money market funds was €218 billion higher than one quarter earlier in June
2013. This increase was due almost equally to increases in share/unit prices and to net issues
of shares/units.
The amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds increased to €7,037 billion in September 2013, from €6,819 billion
in June 2013. Over the same period, the amount outstanding of shares/units issued by euro
area money market funds decreased to €844 billion from €854 billion.
Transactions1 in shares/units issued by euro area investment funds other than money market funds amounted to €97 billion in the third quarter of 2013, while transactions in shares/units issued by money market funds amounted to minus €7 billion.
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Source: ECB
London banks quit carbon trading
November 18, 2013--At least 10 London banks have scaled back or closed their carbon trading desks amid turmoil in the European emissions trading scheme.
The fledgling market was once seen as a promising growth area, with the City of London Corporation predicting in 2006 that London would become the leading provider of services to the "mushrooming" sector....
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Source: FT.com
Leveraged exchange-traded funds see strong rise
November 18, 2013--The value of leveraged exchange-traded funds globally has risen 24% this year to the end of October, to $23.3 billion, according to leveraged ETF manager Boost.
The rise is a mixture of ETFs being created to meet investor interest and price rises as a result of market gains.
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Source: Financial News
ESMA-Financial institutions must improve financial statement disclosures
November 18, 2013-The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Review of the comparability and quality of disclosures in 2012 IFRS financial statements of listed financial institutions.
The Review makes recommendations aimed at enhancing the transparency of financial statements through the improvement of disclosures in certain key areas including: credit risk and impact of forbearance practices; liquidity and funding risk; asset encumbrance and fair value measurement of financial instruments.
ESMA, while finding that the required disclosures under IFRS were generally observed, also identified broad variations in the quality of the information provided, and found some cases where that was insufficient or insufficiently structured to allow comparability among financial institutions.
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Source: ESMA
BATS Chi-X Europe Launches First Listings With iShares ETFs Today
Pan-European Listings Venue Now Live With iShares IEEM and MVOL
November 18, 2013--BATS Chi-X Europe today announced that the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets UCITS ETF (Ticker: IEEM) and the iShares MSCI World Minimum Volatility UCITS ETF (Ticker: MVOL) began trading on BATS Chi-X Europe's Regulated Market.
iShares is the exchange-traded funds (ETF) platform of BlackRock, the global asset manager. BATS Chi-X Europe is the largest pan-European equities exchange by market share and notional value traded.
BATS Chi-X Europe CEO Mark Hemsley said: "With the launch of the first iShares ETFs, on the exchange, market participants now have access to the many benefits and efficiencies of our pan-European reach."
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Source: BATS Chi-X Europe
Finex launches regulated gold fund ETF
European first for cross-listed gold ETF
November 17, 2013--FinEx ETF has launched Europe's first fully-regulated gold exchange trade fund (ETF).
The FinEx Physically Held Gold ETF, which is backed by physically held Gold Bullion in vaults in London, tracks gold prices on the London Gold Fixing Price. Shares in the ETF will be available in both US dollars and rouble. It is listed on both the Irish Stock Exchange and Moscow Exchange, via a passporting mechanism.
Simon Luhr, managing partner and CEO, FinEx Capital Management,...
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Source: Global Investor Magazine
STOXX and Eurex Repo extend GC Pooling index family to cover the entire money market yield curve
November 16, 2013--STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, and Eurex Repo, the leading provider for international financing in the secured money market business, today announced the expansion of the STOXX GC Pooling Index family by 14 new indices to cover the full money market yield curve up to twelve months.
Also, an additional funding rate is introduced that measure secured interbank funding rate and volume in the euro zone at the short end of the money market curve. The STOXX GC Pooling Indices provide a representation of the secured euro funding transactions taking place on the Eurex Repo GC Pooling Market, and are designed to provide transparent, rules-based alternatives to unsecured interbank benchmarks such as LIBOR and EURIBOR/EONIA.
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Source: STOXX
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