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Two new SPDR equity index ETFs launched on Xetra

Both ETFs focus on high dividend yields
October 17, 2011--: Two further exchange-listed equity index funds issued by SPDR (State Street Global Advisors) have been tradable on Xetra® since Monday. The new ETFs have a focus on companies with high dividend yields, one concentrating on the USA and the other on emerging markets.
ETF name: SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: IE0B6YX5D40
Total expense ratio: 0.35 percent

Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index

ETF name: SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: IE00B6YX5B26
Total expense ratio: 0.65 percent
Distribution policy: distributing
Benchmark: S&P Emerging Markets Dividend Opportunities Index

The S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index tracks the performance of 60 companies in the S&P 1500 which show the highest dividend yields and have increased their dividends continuously over the last 25 years.

The S&P Emerging Markets Dividend Opportunities Index tracks the performance of 20 emerging market companies with a high dividend yield.

The product offering in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment currently comprises a total of 876 exchange-listed index funds, while average monthly trading volume stands at €14 billion.

Source: Deutsche Börse


Review into HM Treasury’s Management of the Financial Crisis

Octobetr 17, 2011--HM Treasury is reviewing its response to the financial crisis.
The review is being led by Sharon White, formerly a Director General at the Ministry of Justice and the Department for International Development, and has begun work today. The Review will examine:
the Treasury’s capability on financial services ahead of the crisis; the pace at which the Treasury built its capability when the crisis hit; and

whether the capability and senior management arrangements put in place to handle the crisis and the aftermath have been adequate. The review will inform decisions on organisational arrangements of HM Treasury as part of its Spending Review settlement. It will make recommendations with the aim of:

ensuring that the Treasury has the capability it needs going forward; improving the retention of people with the necessary skills, expertise and experience, having consideration to issues of Treasury culture and values, as well as remuneration; and ensuring that the Treasury has robust arrangements for risk management, contingency planning and knowledge management.

This review follows recommendations from the Public Accounts Committee and the National Audit Office.

The final report will be publicly presented to the Treasury’s executive management board no later than Easter 2012.

Source: SEC.gov


EU dangles EUR 50bn infrastructure investment carrot

October 16, 2011--The EU will next week dangle a 50-billion-euro ($70-billion) carrot of investment funds in a bid to "plug" cross-border holes in Europe's transport, telecommunications and energy infrastructure.

Plans seen by AFP on Friday describe new inducements for European inter-connectivity, intended to re-route European Union funding towards projects that have fallen into abeyance among governments facing tough economic conditions.

Transport accounts for the lion's share, with nearly 32 billion earmarked for development in this sector between 2014 and 2020.

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Source: EUbusiness


September 2011 Euro area inflation up to 3.0% Eu up to 3.3%

October 14, 2011--Euro area1 annual inflation was 3.0% in September 20112, up from 2.5% in August. A year earlier the rate was 1.9%. Monthly inflation was 0.8% in September 2011.
EU3 annual inflation was 3.3% in September 2011, up from 2.9% in August. A year earlier the rate was 2.3%. Monthly inflation was 0.6% in September 2011.

These figures come from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Inflation in the EU Member States

In September 2011, the lowest annual rates were observed in Ireland (1.3%), Sweden (1.5%) and the Czech Republic (2.1%), and the highest in Estonia (5.4%) and Lithuania (4.7%). Compared with August 2011, annual inflation fell in seven Member States, remained stable in five and rose in fourteen.

The lowest 12-month averages4 up to September 2011 were registered in Ireland (0.6%), Sweden (1.6%), the Czech Republic and Slovenia (both 1.9%), and the highest in Romania (6.9%) and Estonia (5.2%).

Euro area

The main components with the highest annual rates in September 2011 were transport (5.9%), housing (5.0%) and alcohol & tobacco (3.7%), while the lowest annual rates were observed for communications (-1.9%), recreation & culture (0.5%) and household equipment (1.3%). Concerning the detailed sub-indices, fuels for transport (+0.55 percentage points), heating oil (+0.19) and electricity (+0.12) had the largest upward impacts on the headline rate, while telecommunications (-0.16), vegetables (-0.11) and rents (-0.10) had the biggest downward impacts.

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Source: EUROPA


S&P cuts rating on Spanish debt

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Spainish debt by one notch. Here is the text of the report from the credit rating agency.
October 14, 2011--Despite signs of resilience in economic performance during 2011, we see heightened risks to Spain's growth prospects due to high unemployment, tighter financial conditions, the still high level of private sector debt, and the likely economic slowdown in Spain's main trading partners.

The financial profile of the Spanish banking system will, in our opinion, weaken further, with the stock of problematic assets rising further, as highlighted by the recent revision in our Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment on Spain to Group 4 from Group 3.

As a consequence, we are lowering our long-term sovereign credit ratings on Spain to 'AA-' from 'AA'.

The outlook on the long-term rating is negative.

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Source: The Telegraph


Ireland coming out of the crisis, but challenges remain

October 14, 2011--The Irish economy faces tough challenges as the country exits from a deep recession and banking crisis, but its long-term prospects now appear better than many of the other hard hit European countries, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Survey of Ireland.

The report, presented today in Dublin, shows that gains in competitiveness and increased exports are driving a modest recovery which should see growth reach 1.2 percent in 2011, an upward revision from the zero percent rate projected last May in the OECD’s last Economic Outlook.

The new forecast comes with significant downside risks, however, notably market fears over financial stability in the euro area.

The OECD Survey urges Ireland to persevere on the path of fiscal consolidation established under an EU-IMF stabilisation programme, notably that its budget defict drop below 3% of GDP by 2015. The OECD projects that the Irish deficit will be 10% of GDP this year before beginning a downward trajectory in the coming years.

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view the Economic Survey of Ireland 2011

Source: OECD


Watchdogs set sights on bank trading floors

October 13, 2011--Europe's watchdogs are lining up a next wave of regulation to crack down on the often opaque and lucrative trading floors of investment banks.

Over-the-counter dealing of financial instruments -- out of sight from closely scrutinised trading platforms -- is under fire, as is computerised trading, a practice often blamed for causing wild swings in markets.

The sprawling trading floors are vast money-spinners. In Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities alone, banks such as Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX), Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), UBS (UBSN.VX), HSBC (HSBA.L) and Barclays (BARC.L) generate between 40 and 60 percent of investment banking revenues.

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Source: Reuters


The debt crisis in the eurozone

October 13, 2011--Key dates in the latest phase of Europe's financial crisis:
JULY
21: Eurozone leaders agree on a new bailout of Greece totalling 159 billion euros ($216 billion) and for the first time involving private bondholders such as banks.
They also agree to boost the eurozone's bailout fund, European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), to 440 billion euros and give it new tools to fight a spread of the debt crisis.

AUGUST

3: Borrowing costs for Italy and Spain hit record highs.

10: Concern emerges that France could be the next country to suffer a debt crisis.

11: Trading authorities in France, Italy, Spain and Belgium restrict the financial technique known as "short selling".

15: The European Central Bank (ECB) says it bought a record 22 billion euros of government bonds, mainly to support Italy and Spain.

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Source: EUbusiness


CDP 2011 FTSE 350 findings: UK companies must adopt more ambitious emissions reduction measures to help meet Carbon Budgets

October 13 2011 - The 2011 edition of the FTSE 350 annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, published today, has revealed that UK companies must set more ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets if the UK is to meet its Carbon Budgets.

Just 15% of companies' emissions reduction targets currently stretch beyond 2020 and in carbon intensive sectors the average duration of a target is just 11 years to 2018 with a 2007 baseline. This is despite the UK target of 80% reduction in emissions, from 1990 levels, by the year 2050 and the fact that 79% of FTSE 350 reporting companies are now citing climate change regulation as a risk to their business, up from 68% in 2010. Business needs strong policy signals from Government to encourage further investment in longer term emissions reduction projects.

The report, entitled Can UK Plc help meet the Carbon Budgets?, was written by global professional services firm PwC on behalf of CDP and analysed disclosures from 236 FTSE 350 companies. It showed a rise in the number of reporting companies setting reduction targets from 58% in 2010 to 66% in 2011. However, of these, just 22% have set absolute targets, with the remainder adopting intensity targets. Only 55% of the respondents from the carbon intensive materials, energy and industrials sectors reported emissions reduction targets, despite accounting for almost three quarters of the total emissions disclosed.

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view the CDP FTSE 350 Report 2011-Can UK Plc help meet the Carbon Budgets?

Source: Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)


ESMA publishes an opinion on practical arrangements for the late transposition of the UCITS IV Directive

October 13, 2011--The deadline for the transposition of the UCITS IV Directive into national legislation was 1 July 2011. However, most Member States (MS) have not yet fully transposed the Directive and its implementing measures. Late transposition can create difficult situations where some competent authorities may not have the legislative framework in place to allow a proper implementation of the Directive.

Without prejudice to any initiatives taken by the European Commission in case of late transposition by MS, ESMA intends to address the situation at an operational level in order to minimise, as far as pos-sible, the impact on industry and investors deriving from lack of transposition.

ESMA proposes in today's opinion practical arrangements for cross-border operations involving one MS that has not transposed the Directive.

view the opinion-Practical arrangements for the late transposition of the UCITS IV Directive

Source: ESMA


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