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STOXX launches pure dividend calculation for European and Euro Zone indices
December 13, 2011--STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced the launch of the STOXX Europe 600, STOXX Europe 600 Supersector and EURO STOXX Supersector DVPs (Dividend Points). The new calculation products provide pure dividend data for the 19 supersectors of the STOXX Europe 600 and EURO STOXX indices, respectively, as well as for STOXX Europe 600 Index.
“In 2008 STOXX introduced the first pure dividend calculation product, the EURO STOXX 50 DVP. Building on its great success, we are now applying the same sophisticated calculation methodology to the popular STOXX Europe 600 and its respective supersectors indices, as well as to the EURO STOXX Supersector Indices,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “The launch of the new DVPs again proves STOXX’s dedication to apply successful, innovative index concepts to the existing index family, thus offering market participants a wider range of choices.”
The STOXX Europe 600, STOXX Europe 600 Supersector and EURO STOXX Supersector DVPs represent ordinary un-adjusted gross cash dividends of the individual constituents, as well as withholding taxes of special cash dividends and capital returns as applied to the individual constituents of each of the 19 supersector indices derived from the STOXX Europe 600 and EURO STOXX indices, and the STOXX Europe 600 Index itself.
Historical data is available back to January 2nd, 2008 All new DVPs are calculated end of day and disseminated in real-time.
For further information on the new calculation products and the STOXX indices, please visit www.stoxx.com.
Spanish stock exchange trades the first ETFon the IBEX 35® Double Short
It is the first ETF on the Spanish stock market on a double short strategy
December 12, 2011--The Spanish Stock Exchange today started trading a new exchange-traded fund called LYXOR ETF IBEX 35® DAILY DOUBLE SHORT, issued by Lyxor Asset Management, Société Générale’s investment subsidiary.
This issue brings the number of ETFs listed on the Spanish stock exchange to 67, in this way increasing the number of assets linked to strategy indices in the Spanish market.
The IBEX 35® DOUBLE SHORT offers double short exposure to the daily return on the IBEX35® NET RETURN, through the investment of an initial capital plus an equivalent loaned capital. A negative daily return on the IBEX35® NET RETURN yields a positive return, but double that amount, for the IBEX 35® DOUBLE SHORT and viceversa.
The trading volume on the ETF segment to November reached €3.19bn on 40,613 trades.
World Bank sees risks to growth in EU tightening
December 12, 2011--Europe's solutions to the eurozone crisis could hit growth around the world and especially in neighboring countries where EU banks are strong, World Bank President Robert Zoellick warned Monday.
Zoellick called the world financial system and economy "fragile" and vulnerable to slashed government spending and contracting bank lending -- likely results from Friday's EU pact on tighter fiscal discipline.
"As I start to look into the end of the year and 2012, I think it's a pretty dicey situation overall. And there's not much room for people to make missteps," Zoellick told CNBC television.
Moody's to review EU states in first quarter of next year
December 12, 2011--Moody's said on Monday it will review the credit ratings of all EU countries in the first quarter of next year, commenting that an EU summit last week failed to deliver "decisive policy measures".
Fellow ratings agency Standard and Poor's had already announced that it is considering downgrading the debt of 15 of the 17 eurozone countries, including the bloc's Triple-A-rated champions like France and Germany.
NASDAQ OMX Commodities and Nord Pool Spot-
December 12, 2011--Highlights physical November 2011:
POWER:
Nord Pool Spot market share of Nordic consumption was 72.8 per cent in November.
The total Nordic preliminary consumption for November was 33.1 TWh compared to 31.3 TWh in October.
Volumes traded in the day-ahead and intraday markets were 26.6 TWh in November compared to 24.6 TWh in October 2011.
The average system price for November was 41.18 EUR/MWh compared to 27.96 EUR/MWh in October 2011.
The value of turnover in the day-ahead and intraday markets for November was EUR 1.17 billion.
MEMBERS:
Nord Pool Spot: 338 memberships in total.
FESE European Equity Market Report - Year 2011 Updated With November Figures
December 12, 2011--FESE has published the ‘European Equity Market Report’ which gathers data from all the market segments operated by FESE members (including Regulated Markets and Multilateral Trading Facilities) as well as from the major MTFs operated by investment firms in the European market. The FESE Statistics Methodology used in the Report has been agreed by all the trading venues involved, both RM and MTFs.
view the 2011 European Equity Market Report - Year 2011 (updated with November figures)
The Council increases co-financing rates for EU funds to counter crisis
December 12, 2011--The Council today adopted1 a regulation providing for a temporary increase of EU cofinancing
rates from structural funds and the cohesion fund for member states under
financial difficulties (66/11 + 18038/11 ADD 2 REV 1). This follows a first-reading agreement with the European Parliament. The main objective of the new rules is to facilitate the use of funding from the EU cohesion policy and to alleviate herewith the impact of the financial crisis on the real economy, the labour market and citizens.
By adopting the new regulation the Council responds to an invitation of the heads of state and government of the euro zone from 21 July 2010 to strengthen "efforts to improve the
capacity to absorb EU funds in order to stimulate growth and employment, including through a temporary increase in co-financing rates".
The new rules provide for an increase of the EU co-financing rates by ten percentage points above the usual co-financing rates. They apply to member states which benefitted from the European financial stabilisation mechanism (Greece, Ireland, Portugal) and from financial assistance for member states' balances of payments (Hungary, Latvia and Romania). They may be applied retroactively from 1 January 2010 and are limited until 31 December 2013.
FSA Board publishes report into the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland
December 12, 2011--The Report concludes that RBS’s failure amid the systemic crisis ultimately resulted from poor decisions made by the RBS management and Board. But deficiencies in the global capital regime and liquidity regulations made the crisis much more likely. In addition, flaws in the FSA’s supervisory approach provided insufficient challenge to RBS.
Specifically, the Report concludes that the failure of RBS can be explained by a combination of six factors:
significant weaknesses in RBS’s capital position, as a result of management decisions and permitted by an inadequate global regulatory capital framework;
over-reliance on risky short-term wholesale funding, which was permitted by an inadequate approach to the regulation of liquidity;
concerns and uncertainties about RBS’s underlying asset quality, which in turn was subject to little fundamental analysis by the FSA;
substantial losses in credit trading activities, which eroded market confidence. Both RBS’s strategy and the FSA’s supervisory approach underestimated how bad losses associated with structured credit might be;
the ABN AMRO acquisition, on which RBS proceeded without appropriate heed to the risks involved and with inadequate due diligence; and
an overall systemic crisis in which the banks in worse relative positions were extremely vulnerable to failure. RBS was one such bank.
Exchange Council appoints Peter Reitz to the Management Board of the Exchange – French Futures switched to financial settlement – Report on EUA Primary Market Auction – Election committee appointed
December 12, 2011--In the meeting of the Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) chaired by Dr. Günther Rabensteiner, Verbund AG, in Vienna on 1 December 2011, Peter Reitz was appointed a further Managing Director of the Exchange.
In August of this year, Peter Reitz was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of EEX AG and European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC). As a result, the exchange is now represented by two managing directors again. In addition to Peter Reitz, Oliver Maibaum represents EEX as Managing Director Exchange. He has held this office since 2004 and was confirmed in office by the Exchange Council in 2009.
In the meeting, the Management Board of the Exchange reported on the further development of the French Power Derivatives Market. On 24 November 2011, the exchange switched the physically settled French Power Futures to contracts with financial settlement. The trading participants now have three months to close open positions in the physical contracts and open positions in the new financial contracts via OTC registration. The members of the Exchange Council welcomed the switch of the contracts. These will bring financial trading participants, such as banks and trading houses, to the exchange and, hence, contribute to higher liquidity. The new French Financial Futures have also been tradable for the Eurex participants admitted to EEX since November.
More Europe is the only way out of the crisis
December 12, 2011--On 8 December 2011, at the 476th plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) President Staffan Nilsson, the three interest groups making up the EESC and Jean-Paul Delevoye, President of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council agreed that deeper European integration was the only way out of the crisis. In the lead up to the European Council, the EESC President's statement tackled key aspects of the crisis such as fiscal discipline, the discussion on stability bonds and regulation of the financial sector.
The plenary session was opened by President Nilsson with a serious warning: "The European Union is in a profound crisis – a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a sovereign debt crisis, a social crisis with almost 23 million unemployed, but also a fundamental crisis of European integration itself". His statement on "Overcoming the crisis – towards a policy programme for sustainable recovery" sets out the Committee's stance on various aspects of the economic crisis and the possible solutions.
According to Mr Nilsson, there is only one way out of the crisis for the EU: to create the right conditions for boosting growth and employment. The Community Method has to be reasserted and the Commission's legislative initiative must guarantee that the crisis is tackled by stepping up integration.
"More Europe, a new Europe will require a fundamental pooling of resources and sharing of responsibilities", said Mr. Nilsson, specifying that this could only be achieved if Member States respected fiscal discipline in the framework of the so-called "six pack", the agreed reform package. However, the austerity/growth deadlock can only be broken if these commitments are accompanied by stability bonds, proper regulation of the financial sector and, crucially, a long-term strategy for assuring sustainable growth. In this regard, the institutions have already developed a tool to generate confidence, not just for the markets, but, what is more important, for citizens: the Europe 2020 strategy, where the focus is on proper implementation.
