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London Stock Exchange Group Monthly Market Report - July 2011

August 4, 2011--London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community, offering international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets. In July a total of 29 million trades were carried out across the Group’s electronic equity order books with a combined value of £195.8 billion (€221.3 billion), up 16 per cent on July 2010 (£169.5 billion).

UK Equities Order Book
During the month, the average daily value traded on the UK order book was £4.4 billion (€5.0 billion), up two per cent year on year; the average daily number of trades was up six per cent to 611,941.
The LSE’s share of trading in the total UK order book for July was 62.2 per cent.
Italian Equities Order book
On the Italian order book, the average daily number of trades was 310,027, up 30 per cent on the same month last year, whilst the average daily value traded on the order book increased 21 per cent year on year to €3.3 billion (£2.9 billion).

Exchange Traded Products

Total value traded in Exchange Traded Products across the Group’s order books in July was up 24 per cent year on year to £10.6 billion (€12 billion). The total number of trades was up nine per cent at 347,478.

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Source: London Stock Exchange


LaBranche moves onto Swiss stock exchange as pressure mounts to trade on exchange

August 4, 2011--LaBranche is growing its on-exchange market making business as mergers between European exchanges push the market towards a unified exchange.

LaBranche started trading ETFs on the Six Swiss Exchange yesterday as the European market moves towards transacting on screen and it heads towards a unified exchange.

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Source: IFAonline


Turkish lira weakens after Central Bank's surprise rate cut

August 4, 2011--The Turkish lira weakened, bond yields fell and stocks dropped on Thursday after Turkey's Central Bank surprised markets by cutting its policy rate to stimulate the economy.

The lira fell to 1.7260 against the dollar by 1009 GMT, from 1.6950 before the decision, and a previous close of 1.6980.

The Central Bank cut its policy rate, the one-week repo rate, to an all-time low of 5.75 percent at an emergency monetary policy committee meeting to limit the risk of global economic woes triggering economic stagnation in Turkey.

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Source: Todays Zaman


New db x-trackers equity index ETF launched on Xetra

First ETF on MSCI BRIC TRN Index
August 4, 2011--A new ETF issued by db x-trackers has been tradable on Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment since Thursday.
ETF name: db x-trackers MSCI BRIC TRN Index ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: LU0589685956
Total expense ratio: 0.65 percent

Distribution policy: non-distributing
Benchmark: MSCI BRIC TRN Index

The new db x-trackers MSCI BRIC TRN Index ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of companies with high and mid-range market capitalisation from Brazil, Russia, India and China. The underlying index is weighted according to free-float market capitalisation. With to date 320 securities, the index covers approximately 85% of the total market capitalisation of the four countries.

The product offering in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment currently comprises a total of 858 exchange-listed index funds, making it the largest offering of all European stock exchanges.

Source: Deutsche Börse


NYSE Euronext European ETF activity highlights for July 2011

August 4, 2011--Listings
This month, NYSE Euronext welcomed the first six ETF products from Ossiam, a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management, as well as new listings from Lyxor and ETF Securities:
Ossiam ETF CAC 40 Equal Weight (Symbol: C4EW)
Ossiam ETF STOXX EUROPE 600 Equal Weight (Symbol: S6EW)
Ossiam ETF EURO STOXX 50 Equal Weight (Symbol: S5EW)


Ossiam ETF US Minimum Variance class Euro (Symbol: SPMV)
Ossiam ETF US Minimum Variance class USD (Symbol: MVUS)
Ossiam ETF iSTOXX Europe Minimum Variance (Symbol: EUMV)
ETFX CAC 40 2x Long Fund (Symbol: FRL2)
ETFX CAC 40 2x Short Fund (Symbol: FRS2)
Lyxor ETF Thailand (Symbol: THA)
Lyxor ETF MSCI Indonesia (Symbol: INDO)

In total, NYSE Euronext had 663 listings of 572 ETFs from 18 issuers. So far this year, there have been a total of 131 new ETF listings on the NYSE Euronext European cash markets, including 103 new primary listings and 28 cross-listings (compared to 46 new primary listings and no cross-listings in the same period in 2010). NYSE Euronext ETFs cover more than 360 indices exposed to an extensive range of assets and strategies (Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities, Short, Leverage, etc).

Trading activity

An average of 9,231 on-book trades were executed daily in July, up 15.2% on July 2010 and showing almost no change year-to-date vs last year. When off-book regulated trades are included, the total daily average number of trades for July stands at 9,237 trades.

The average daily value traded on-book in July was €464.7 million, +40.7% vs July 2010 and +6.4% year-to-date vs last year. The total average daily value including off-book regulated trades was €494.7 million, +44.9% vs July 2010 and +11.6% year-to-date vs last year.

Assets Under Management (AUM)

At the end of July 2011, the combined AUM of all ETFs listed on the NYSE Euronext European markets totalled €141.5 billion, an increase of 19.3% from the €118.6 billion at the end of July 2010.

Market Quality

Our high-capacity, low-latency technology, combined with the flow from client orders, competitive market makers and our 22 first-class Liquidity Providers, contributed to a median spread for all listed ETFs of 28.5 bps.

view June 2011 edition of the ETF Monthly Flash

Source: NYSE Euronext


Unscheduled free float adjustment in DAX

Adjustment for Deutsche Börse tendered shares as of 9 August 2011
August 4, 2011--Deutsche Börse has announced an unscheduled adjustment to the free float of the share of Deutsche Börse in DAX.

Due to the exchange offer made to the shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG, which relates to the planned combination of Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext, the free float of the tendered shares of Deutsche Börse AG (ISIN DE000A1KRND6) has changed by more than 10 percentage points.

According to the index guidelines, the company’s free float will thus be increased from the current 77.83 percent to 90.82 percent. The adjustment will become effective on Tuesday, 9 August 2011.

Since 20 July 2011, the Deutsche Börse AG shares (ISIN DE0005810055) have been replaced with the tendered share class of Deutsche Börse AG (ISIN DE000A1KRND6) in the DAX index.

The next regular review of the Deutsche Börse blue-chip indices will be on 5 September 2011.

Source: Deutsche Börse


ECB liquidity measures dent euro

August 4, 2011--The euro fell sharply as the European Central Bank became the third monetary institution of the day to address tensions in financial markets by easing its policy stance.

Although part of its on­going market operations, the ECB announced on Thursday that it would conduct a special six-month liquidity programme to help relieve tensions in eurozone financial markets.

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Source: FT.com


Key dates of the euro crisis

August 4, 2011-- Here are key dates in the debt crisis besetting the 17-nation eurozone:
-- 2009 --
October 16: Greece's incoming Socialist Prime Minister, George Papandreou, warns that his country's finances are in "a state of emergency."

December: The world's three main credit ratings agencies, Fitch, Standard & Poor's and Moody's, downgrade Greece's debt. Papandreou outlines massive public spending cuts.

2010

January 29: Spain announces a three-year austerity plan to save 50 billion euros ($71 billion).

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Source: EUbusiness


Deutsche Börse AG: Acceptance Rate Of The Exchange Offer Of Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V. To The Shareholders Of Deutsche Börse AG Increases To Over 95 Percent Within The Additional Offer Acceptance Period

August 3, 2011-- By the end of the acceptance period on 1 August (midnight, CEST) 2011, 186,060,779 shares in Deutsche Börse were tendered under the exchange offer made by Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V. to the shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG, which relates to the planned combination of Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext.

This corresponds to an acceptance rate of 95,41 percent of the total number of Deutsche Börse shares.

If also the final acceptance rate exceeds 95 percent, shareholders of Deutsche Börse AG, who have not yet accepted the exchange offer made by Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V., still may elect to do so at unchanged conditions and exchange their shares for shares in Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V. even after expiry of the additional offer acceptance period on 1 August 2011. Pursuant to Section 39c German Takeover Act such election has to be made within a period of three months after the expiry of the additional offer acceptance period of the exchange offer and the compliance with the disclosure requirements pursuant to Section 23 para. 1 sentence 1 no. 4 and sentence 2 German Takeover Act, i.e. until November 4, 2011 (midnight, CET).

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Source: Deutsche Börse AG


EEX trading results in July

July 3, 2011--In July 2011 the total trading volume on the Natural Gas Market of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) amounted to 2,573,289 MWh compared with 8,689,500 MWh in July 2010.

Thereof 953,699 MWh was traded on the Spot Market for the delivery into the market areas GASPOOL, NCG and TTF (July 2010 GASPOOL and NCG volume: 965,970 MWh). The daily reference price on the Spot Market for Natural Gas ranged between EUR 20.83 per MWh and EUR 22.17 per MWh.

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Source: EEX


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