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Deutsche Börse launches new EUROGOV France indices
February 8, 2011--Deutsche Börse launched a new index family for the French government bond market with five EUROGOV France indices on 3 January. The EUROGOV France indices track the French market for fixed-income government bonds denominated in euros.
The five indices measure investment success in the market segment of highly liquid government bonds, each of them covering a different maturity. To be included in the indices, bonds must have an outstanding minimum volume of €4 billion. The indices exclude zero-coupon bonds. The index may be composed of up to 15 bonds.
The ETF issuer ETFlab Investment GmbH, a subsidiary of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, has launched four bond index funds on the new EUROGOV indices, which have been traded in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment since Tuesday. These enable investors to participate in the performance of the French market’s highly liquid government bonds in the desired maturity.
The composition of the EUROGOV France indices is reviewed and adjusted quarterly. The weighting of the bonds in the index is based on their market capitalisation. Changes to the outstanding nominal volume are made in the index when the composition is updated on the respective dates. A bond’s index weighting is limited to 30 percent on the specific dates.
The product offering in Deutsche Börse’s XTF segment currently comprises a total of 771 exchange-traded index funds, making it the largest offering of all European stock exchanges. This selection, together with an average monthly trading volume of around €13 billion, makes Xetra Europe’s leading trading venue for ETFs.
The four newly listed ETFlab Deutsche Börse EUROGOV France ETFs are listed below. The management fee is 0.15 percent for each product:
ETFlab Deutsche Börse EUROGOV France, ISIN: DE000ETFL425
ETFlab Deutsche Börse EUROGOV France 1-3, ISIN: DE000ETFL391
ETFlab Deutsche Börse EUROGOV France 3-5, ISIN: DE000ETFL409
ETFlab Deutsche Börse EUROGOV France 5-10, ISIN: DE000ETFL417
LSE hopes TMX will turn its transatlantic vision into reality
February 8, 2011--For as long as many in the City can remember, the London Stock Exchange has been prey, stalked by some of the world’s biggest bourses.
Clara Furse’s tenure as chief executive was marked by a grinding battle to fend off hostile takeover attempts by Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq OMX of the US, eager to snap up a trophy among world exchanges.
Bank levy rates to be increased raising £800m more in 2011
January 7, 2011--The Chancellor has announced today an increase in the rate of the bank levy to be charged in 2011. This change will increase the revenue from the levy in 2011 by £800m to £2.5 billion.
The Government initially announced that a reduced rate of 0.05 per cent would apply in 2011, recognising the uncertain market conditions prevailing at the time.
The Government no longer considers this necessary. Therefore, from 1 March the rate of the levy will be 0.1 per cent for 2 months, to offset the lower rate of 0.05 per cent charged in January and February, before moving to 0.075 per cent.
Trichet warns against forced losses on sovereign bonds
February 7, 2011--- The head of the European body tasked with tackling risks to the financial system warned European Union lawmakers Monday that forcing investors to take losses by restructuring national debt they now hold would reward speculators.
Such losses were not part of rescue programmes agreed to in bailouts for Greece and Ireland and should not be applied after the fact, said Jean-Claude Trichet, who spoke as chairman of the European Systemic Risk Board before the EU Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Deutsche Börse marks 10-years anniversary as a listed company
February 4, 2011--The initial public offering (IPO) of Deutsche Börse AG (ISIN DE0005810055) took place on 5 February 2001 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Adjusted for stock splits, the shares of Deutsche Börse were issued at 16.75 euros.
Since then, the share price has more than tripled, the closing price on 3 February 2011 was 56.40 euros.
Market capitalisation of Deutsche Börse has grown and totals around 11 billion euros.
Since 23 December 2002, Deutsche Börse shares have been included into the German blue chip index DAX, since 15 October 2007 they are part of the European blue chip index EURO STOXX 50. The daily turnover of Deutsche Börse shares has steadily grown since the public offering: in 2001, the average daily turnover was around 0.4 million shares per day on the Xetra trading system compared with 1.3 million shares in 2010.
Europe launches trillion euro energy revamp
February 4, 2011--European leaders launched Friday a trillion-euro bid to slash dependency on Middle East oil and Russian gas, clearing the way to place nuclear power at the centre of 21st century needs.
At a summit shaken by instability over Egypt's popular revolt and soaring oil prices, the European Union moved to reclaim control over energy supply for the rest of the century with reforms designed to unlock private investment.
The EU is the world's largest regional energy market -- 500 million people and 20 million companies.
Drive to unify euro economy as rescue roadmap set
February 4, 2011--Germany and France launched a radical drive Friday to unify the debt-ridden eurozone economy, as eurozone leaders set out their roadmap towards finalising permanent rescue resources.
While plans to down wages provoked an immediate backlash at a European Union summit, a deal in principle to widen the scope of a permanent bailout fund, pending final approval of "concrete" measures in March, allowed the big two and the weakest eurozone states to find common ground.
EEX trading results in January
February 3, 2011--In January, the trading volume, on the EEX Spot Market for Natural Gas amounted to 1,323,933 MWh (GASPOOL and NCG market areas) com-pared to 885,696 MWh in January 2010. The volume included 382,893 MWh traded in the Within-Day Gas product. The Spot Market price for the day-ahead delivery of Natu-ral Gas ranged between EUR 20.01 per MWh and EUR 28.00 per MWh.
The volumes on the Derivatives Market for Natural Gas (GASPOOL and NCG market areas) amounted to 1,004,948 MWh (January 2009: 1,079,750 MWh). On 31 January 2011, the open interest was 19,493,975 MWh. On 31 January 2011 Natural Gas prices for delivery in 2012 were fixed at EUR 22.82 per MWh (GASPOOL) and EUR 23.19 per MWh (NCG), respectively. In January, EEX launched the European Gas Index (EGIX). The last monthly average value for EGIX Germany, which constitutes the ref-erence price for the delivery month February 2011, was fixed with 22.68 Euro/MWh on 28 January 2011.
UK official holdings of international reserves, January 2011
February 3, 2011--This monthly press notice shows details of movements in January 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 January 2011:
No intervention operations were undertaken.
Movements in reserves and levels of reserves were as follows:
NYSE Euronext completes offering of net and gross return versions on its main European indices
February 2, 2011--Today NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced the launch of ten new net and gross return indices. For the AEX®, AMX®, AScX® and PSI 20®
net return versions were released and for the BEL Mid® and BEL Small® indices gross return versions were launched. Net and gross return versions were also introduced for the CAC 40® and
AEX® Equal Weight indices.
With these new indices all of NYSE Euronext’s main European
indices now have a net and gross return version.
“These net and gross return indices have further increased our offering of NYSE Euronext European indices allowing investors and exchange traded product issuers new ways to invest in our indices”, says George Patterson, Managing Director European Indices, Global Index Group, NYSE Euronext.
All NYSE Euronext’s European country return indices use the same calculation methodology. For gross return indices gross dividends declared by the index constituents are reinvested in the index and for net return indices net dividends (ordinary gross dividend minus the amount of withholding tax) are reinvested into the index.