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All of the World's Stock Exchanges by Size
February 17, 2016--There are 60 major stock exchanges throughout the world, and their range of sizes is quite surprising.
At the high end of the spectrum is the mighty NYSE, representing $18.5 trillion in market capitalization, or about 27% of the total market for global equities.
At the lower end? Stock exchanges on the tiny islands of Malta, Cyprus, and Bermuda all range from just $1 billion to $4 billion in value. Even added together, these three exchanges make up just 0.01% of total market capitalization.
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Source: visualcapitalist.com
STOXX Monthly Index News
Investment Outlook: Key developments to consider by Aureliano Gentilini, Head of Research, STOXX Ltd.
Fact of the Month: Climate change could cost 20% of global GDP
Index of the Month: STOXX Global Climate Change Leaders Index
Source: Mondovisione
Saudi Arabia and Russia agree to freeze oil output
source: AME Info
Source reports record demand for gold ETF in January
Source said SGLD saw $300m (€268.5m) of new assets last month. Over 2015, its gold ETF recorded less than $250m (€223.8m) of inflows.
Source: Investment Europe
Source sees record demand for gold ETF in January
The product attracted $300m of inflows over the month, significantly beating 2015's full year figure of $250m, and bringing total assets under management to over $2bn.
Source: etfstrategy.co.uk
Daily fund liquidity needs rethinking,, say asset managers
Is a liquidity rating system for asset managers a good idea? Is daily liquidity for investors necessary, when some such as pension funds invest for 10, 20, perhaps 30 years? Should gates or side-pockets, more traditionally used by hedge funds, be introduced? As regulators voice their concerns about the liquidity risks of asset managers, the industry itself has privately started to question the framework underpinning long-term investment.
Source: Risk.net
ETF Securities-Commodities weekly: European equity rout and weak USD benefits gold
Oil ETPs recorded inflows for the ninth consecutive week, as investors remain confident that oil prices will recover in the near term.
The copper price fell again below the US$4,500/ton mark last week resulting in bargain hunting by investors, increasing exposure to long copper ETPs.
Source: ETF Securities
BlackRock's iShares eyes ETF price comparison tool
Source: Financila News
Bitcoin Roundtable Announcement Thwarts Bitcoin Classic Launch
A group of prominent exchanges, mining pools and other industry players organized under the "Bitcoin Roundtable" collective, stated publicly they will not switch to Bitcoin Classic for the present.
Source: bitcoinmagazine.com
IMF Working paper-What's In a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls
While advanced countries often employed capital controls to tame speculative inflows during the last century, we conjecture that several factors undermined their subsequent use as prudential tools. First, it appears that inflow controls became inextricably linked with outflow controls. The latter have typically been more pervasive, more stringent, and more linked to autocratic regimes, failed macroeconomic policies, and financial crisis-inflow controls are thus damned by this "guilt by association." Second, capital account restrictions often tend to be associated with current account restrictions. As countries aspired to achieve greater trade integration, capital controls came to be viewed as incompatible with free trade. Third, as policy activism of the 1970s gave way to the free market ideology of the 1980s and 1990s, the use of capital controls, even on inflows and for prudential purposes, fell into disrepute. view the IMF Working paper-What's In a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls
Source: IMF
February 17, 2018--The latest edition of STOXX Monthly Index News brings you the following topics:
Performance: Top five STOXX Indices-Minimum Variance Portfolios cushion losses
STOXX Europe 600 Index: UK and Germany at bottom in tough month
February 16, 2016--Crude touched the lowest levels in 13 years after falling from as high as $115 a barrel in mid-2014
February 16, 2016--ETF provider Source has stressed record demand for its Source Physical Gold P-ETC (SGLD) product in January.
February 16, 2016--Source, a leading European provider of exchange-traded products, has reported record levels of demand for its physical gold ETP, the Source Physical Gold P-ETC (SGLD LN), in January.
February 16, 2016--Buy-side firms sceptical about liquidity metrics, but see need for fundamental change
February 15, 2016--Summary
Gold ETPs recorded the largest daily and weekly inflows on record, as the European equity market sell-off, led by the banking sector, triggered a 7.3% price rally for gold.
February 15, 2016--BlackRock's iShares division for Europe, the Middle East and Africa is looking into building a price comparison tool similar to Moneysupermarket.com to allow investors to compare the cost of various exchange-traded funds.
February 13, 2016--Bitcoin Classic, the Bitcoin implementation set to double Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block size limit by a hard fork, suffered a significant setback shortly after itsofficial release this week.
February 12, 2016-- Summary: This paper investigates why controls on capital inflows have a bad name, and evoke such visceral opposition, by tracing how capital controls have been used and perceived, since the late nineteenth century.
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