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Changes to MDAX and SDAX
June 5, 2013--On Wednesday Deutsche Börse decided on changes in its selection indices that will become effective 24 June 2013.
The following changes will be made to the MDAX Index: The shares of LEG Immobilien AG will be included in the index and will replace the shares of Hamburger Hafen & Logistik AG.
Consequently, the shares of Hamburger Hafen & Logistik AG will be included in SDAX. Furthermore, the shares of RTL Group S.A. will be included in SDAX. The shares of Constantin Medien AG and IVG Immobilien AG will leave the index.
The next regular index review will be held on 4 September 2013.
Source: Deutsche Börse
Second estimate for the first quarter of 2013-Euro area GDP down by 0.2% and EU27 down by 0.1%
-1.1% and -0.7% respectively compared with the first quarter of 2012
June 5, 2013--GDP fell by 0.2% in the euro area1 (EA17) and by 0.1% in the EU271 during the first quarter of 2013, compared with the previous quarter, according to second estimates2 published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, growth rates were -0.6% and -0.5% respectively.
Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, GDP fell by 1.1% in the euro area and by 0.7% in the EU27
in the first quarter of 2013, after -1.0% and -0.7% respectively in the previous quarter.
During the first quarter of 2013, GDP in the United States grew by 0.6% compared with the previous quarter (after +0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2012). Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, GDP rose by 1.8% (after +1.7% in the previous quarter).
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Source: Eurostat
UK Official holdings of international reserves-May 2013
June 5, 2013--This monthly press notice shows details of movements in May in the UK's official holdings of international reserves, which consist of gold, foreign currency assets and International Monetary Fund assets.
These reserves are maintained primarily so that the UK Government’s reserves could be used to intervene to support Sterling, or the Bank of England’s reserves could be used to support the Bank’s monetary policy objectives. If such interventions were to occur, then they would be shown and explained in this release. The Background note at the end of this release explains more about the reserves, and about these statistics.
In summary this month’s release shows that, in May 2013:
No intervention operations were undertaken.
Movements in reserves and levels of reserves were as follows:
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Source: HM Treasury
Borsa İstanbul Equity Market and Emerging Companies Market Trading Hours Change
June 5, 2013--Effective 10 June 2013, Borsa İstanbul Equity Market and Emerging Companies Market trading hours for the first session will be changed
as detailed below:
Opening Session 09:15-09:35
Call Phase (Order Collection) 09:15-09:30
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Source: Borsa İstanbul
Northern Trust Names Moore in ETF Admin Post
June 5, 2013--Northern Trust has appointed Fiona Moore as head of fund administration for its exchange-traded funds (ETF) business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Based in Dublin, Moore will be responsible for managing ETF administration activities for Northern Trust's clients in the three regions. She replaces Liam Butler, who was appointed head of Northern Trust's hedge fund servicing group in March.
Moore joined Northern Trust as part of its acquisition of Bank of Ireland Securities Services in June 2011, where she was senior relationship manager in its global fund services group.
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Source: Global Custody.net
ETFs escape unregulated funds crackdown
The sale of risky unregulated investment products to most private investors will be banned next year.
June 4, 2013--The sale of risky unregulated investment products to most private investors will be banned next year after the City regulator found pensioners and debt-ridden customers had been mis-sold the funds.
These unregulated collective investment schemes (Ucis), which have been involved in a number of high profile scandals, will still be available to sophisticated investors who meet certain criteria.
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Source: CityWire
Turkish markets, lira up after conciliatory messages
June 4, 2013--Turkish assets clawed back some of the previous day's heavy losses on Tuesday as investor concern about anti-government protests across the country appeared to ease.
Attention was focused on a morning meeting between President Abdullah Gül and Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç who has apologized for the excessive force used by police against an initially peaceful group of protesters in Taksim's Gezi Park in recent days. Shares traded on main Turkish benchmark..
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Source: Todays Zaman
BlackRock launches cross--border ETF to grow European market
Cross-border ETF to be settled in international security depository
Designed to cut transaction costs, boost liquidity
June 4, 2013--BlackRock, the world's largest fund manager, plans to issue Europe's first cross-border exchange-traded fund (ETF) in a move it expects will reduce trading costs and attract more investors to the product.
ETFs track baskets of shares, bonds or commodities and are traded like stocks. They offer access to indices without having to buy the underlying securities.
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Source: Reuters
NYSE Euronext welcomes Vanguard as new ETF issuer on European markets
June 4, 2013--NYSE Euronext is pleased to welcome Vanguard as a new ETF Issuer on our European markets. Vanguard has listed seven new ETFs on NYSE Euronext Amsterdam, all of which are multi-listed in Paris, on 4 June, 2013:
ETF Symbol: VUSA
Listing date: 04/06/2013
ETF Trading name: Vanguard S&P500
Underlying index: S&P 500 Index
TER: 0.09%
ETF Symbol: VFEM
Listing date:04/06/2013
ETF Trading name: Vanguard FTSE EM
Underlying index: FTSE Emerging Markets Index
TER: 0.45%
ETF Symbol:VWRL
Listing date:04/06/2013
ETF Trading name: Vanguard FTSE AW
Underlying index: FTSE All-World Index
TER: 0.25%
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Source: NYSE Euronext
BlackRock and Euroclear Bank announce ground-breaking plans to grow the European ETF market
June 4, 2013--BlackRock and Euroclear Bank today announce plans to reform Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) trade processing and settlement across Europe by issuing the first iShares ETF with an international security structure.
Unlike other cross-exchange listed ETFs in Europe, which currently settle in national central securities depositories (CSDs), the new iShares ETF will be issued and settle for the first time in an International CSD (ICSDs)-Euroclear Bank.
At present, all cross-exchange listed ETFs in Europe including iShares ETFs, are issued and traded on one or more national stock exchanges and settle in the national central securities depository (CSD) of the exchange where the trade is executed. This often causes inefficiencies when ETFs are traded across borders. By using a single European settlement location, it is expected the new international ETF structure will improve trading liquidity, ease cross-border ETF processing and significantly lower transaction costs for investors.
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Source: Euroclear
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