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Institutional Traders Around The World Concerned By High Frequency Trading, Global Survey Shows
Liquidnet Finds More Than Two-Thirds Worried About HFT
Concerns Run Highest In Global Firms and in U.S. and Europe
September 12, 2011--More than two-thirds of traders at leading asset management firms around the world are concerned about the impact of high frequency trading (HFT) on the equities market, according to a survey by Liquidnet, the global institutional marketplace.
Liquidnet’s Institutional Voice Survey polled traders worldwide from Liquidnet’s community of 630 institutional asset management firms. These firms collectively manage equity assets of more than $13 trillion.
“The survey reveals that there is strong conviction among the vast majority of long-only traders that HFT is a negative for institutional investors trading in large size, adding some hard facts to what’s previously been speculation about institutional attitudes,” said Seth Merrin, founder and CEO of Liquidnet. “Investors are clearly concerned that their long-term investment styles are at odds with the speculative, nano-second profit taking approach utilized by high frequency traders.”
Source: Liquidnet
EDI and the Commodities Research Bureau Team Up to Deliver the Best Quality Commodity Pricing Data
September 12, 2011--Exchange Data International (EDI), a well established provider of Securities Corporate Actions and Reference Data, today announced a new commodity pricing service in collaboration with the Commodities Research Bureau (CRB), the world’s leading commodity and futures research, data and analysis firm since 1934.
With this partnership, EDI is now able to offer its clients comprehensive End-of-Day commodity pricing and fundamental date services covering over 1000 markets worldwide. The new commodity pricing service provides daily global Futures, Futures Options and Cash pricing data as well as commodity fundamental data covering global supply and demand, production, stocks etc…
“Since 2007 we have been providing clients with equity and bond end-of-day prices. Adding commodities to our pricing suite was the next step.” says Jonathan Bloch, CEO at EDI. “We are happy to partner with CBR, one of the biggest names in commodities data, and ensure our clients receive clean accurate historical data and timely updates.”
Source: Barchart
China says "trust" main challenge for relations with EU
September 10, 2011--The main challenge for China-EU relations lies in the lack of trust produced by Europe's "double standards", China's vice minister for foreign affairs Fu Ying said here on Saturday.
"The main challenge is the problem of trust, of suspicion of each other, of political rejection," Fu said in a a debate on EU-China relations at a conference in Slovenia's lake resort of Bled.
"For many Europeans China is politically incorrect but, at the same time, it is economically correct," Fu said, speaking in English. "I do not know how that logic works, how can an incorrect political system produce correct economic results?"
Source: EUbusiness
Egypt, Kazakhstan Exchanges To Be Added to Dow Jones FEAS Index Universe
September 9, 2011-- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced that the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) will be added to the Dow Jones FEAS Index universe, effective after the close of trading on September 16, 2011.
The Dow Jones FEAS Indexes measure the performance of companies across the Euro-Asian region. There are three indexes in the family: a composite and two regional sub-indexes. With the addition of Egypt (77) and Kazakhstan (7), 84 new component stocks will be added to the index, making for a total of 472 component stocks.
The Dow Jones FEAS Composite Index includes component stocks of 16 of the 34 member states of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges. The exchanges include Abu Dhabi (UAE), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Amman (Jordan), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Belgrade (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania), Cairo (Egypt), Nablus (Palestine), Istanbul (Turkey), Karachi (Pakistan), Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), Muscat (Oman), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Skopje (Republic of Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Zagreb (Croatia).
Source: Dow Jones Indexes
ETF Securities surpasses US$30 billion in assets under management
Compounded annual growth rate of 53% in AUM over 3 years
Most traded commodity ETPs in Europe (56% of market share)
ETFS Physical Gold most traded commodity ETP in Europe
September 9, 2011--ETF Securities, pioneers in specialist exchange-traded products (ETPs), has seen its assets under management (AUM) surpass the US$30 billion mark.
Over the past 12 months, ETF Securities’ AUM have increased by 52% as investors seek the safe-haven status of gold against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and financial market volatility.
Thematic ETFs and currency ETCs have also seen strong growth recently. Together they contributed around 25% of the company's total AUM growth in the first half of 2011, up considerably from 5% in the first half of 2010.
Commenting, Mark Weeks, Managing Director, ETF Securities, said:
'Not only is our US$30bn AUM a milestone for the company, but it's also telling of the changing environment in the way investors are using commodities to form their portfolios. In recent years, it has become increasingly important to consider investment ideas that are different from traditional strategies and asset classes.
Source: ETF Securities
Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium, Among Five New Additions to Dow Jones China 88 Index
Focus Media Holding, Brilliance China Automotive Holdings, Air China Join Dow Jones China Offshore 50 Index
Changes Follow Regular Index Review
September 8, 2011--Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group
Co. Ltd. (600887.SH) and Pangang Group Steel Vanadium & Titanium Co. Ltd.
(000629.SZ) will be among five stocks added to the Dow Jones China 88 Index
following a regular semi-annual review, it was announced today by Dow Jones
Indexes.
The Dow Jones China 88 Index tracks the largest and most liquid 88 stocks in China's Class-A market and reflects about 39.56% of the float-adjusted market capitalization of both the Shanghai and Shenzhen Class-A markets.
Inner Mongolian Baotou Steel Union Co. Ltd. (600010.SH), China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. (000758.SZ) and XCMG Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (000425.SZ) will also be added to the index as part of its semi-annual (March and September) review.
Source: Dow Jones Indexes
BASF, Pearson, PPG Industries Added to Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index
Taiwan's HIWIN Technologies, KCC of South Korea, Australia's SAI Global Among Stocks Added to Dow Jones Islamic Market Asia/Pacific Index
Changes Follow Regular Periodic Reviews Of Dow Jones Islamic Market Indexes
September 8, 2011--BASF of Germany, the U.K.'s Pearson PLC and PPG Industries Inc. of the U.S.will be added to the Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index, following a regular quarterly review, Dow Jones Indexes announced today.
A total of 130 stocks will be added to the index, while 103 will be deleted, increasing the number of components in the index to 2,618 from 2,591. Following BASF (BAS.XE), Pearson (PSON.LN) and PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), the largest new components (by free-float market capitalization) in the index are Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. of the U.S. (NYSE:IR) and The Netherlands' Akzo Nobel N.V. (AKZA.AE).
The free-float market capitalization of the reconstituted Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index increased to US$12.8 trillion from US$12.6 trillion.
Source: Dow Jones Indexes
Economic growth perspectives weakening as recovery slows, OECD says
September 8, 2011-- Economic recovery appears to have come close to a halt in the major industrialised economies, with falling household and business confidence affecting both world trade and employment, according to new analysis from the OECD. Growth remains strong in most emerging economies, albeit at a more moderate pace.
“Growth is turning out to be much slower than we thought three months ago, and the risk of hitting patches of negative growth going forward has gone up,” OECD Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan said during a presentation of the OECD’s latest Interim Economic Assessment.
Economic growth in the G7 economies excluding Japan will remain at an annualised rate of less than 1% in the second half of 2011.
Source: OECD
General Mills Added To Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index
Number of Index Components Increases to 38 Following Regular Quarterly Review
September 8, 2011-- General Mills, a new official supplier to the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, will be added to the Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index, Dow Jones Indexes announced today.
The Dow Jones Summer/Winter Games Index measures the performance of all publicly traded securities of companies that are official partners, sponsors or suppliers of the next Olympiad – in this case, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games inLondon.
Source: Dow Jones Indexes
Deutsche Börse AG and NYSE Euronext announce that Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V. will not pursue a takeover law squeeze-out of the remaining Deutsche Börse AG shareholders who have not tendered
September 8, 2011--Deutsche Börse AG (XETRA:DB1) and NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) today announced that the holding company of the merged group, Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V. (“Holdco”) will not pursue a takeover law squeeze-out under, Section 39a and b of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act, of the remaining Deutsche Börse shares that were not tendered in the original exchange offer made by Holdco.
In addition, the Companies also said that Holdco was not currently contemplating the implementation of a corporate squeeze-out under Section 327a et seq. of the German Stock Corporation Act, and that it was anticipated that Deutsche Börse would enter into a domination agreement. The companies encouraged all holders of the untendered Deutsche Börse shares to tender their shares under the terms of the original offer. Shareowners who tender their shares into the original offer will be eligible to receive the one-time special dividend of €2.00 per Holdco share from Holdco’s capital reserves anticipated to be paid shortly after closing of the transaction.
In July 2011, NYSE Euronext achieved overwhelming support from its shareholders for the proposed combination with Deutsche Börse in a special shareholder meeting. Shortly thereafter, 95.41 percent of the shares in Deutsche Börse AG were tendered under the exchange offer made by Alpha Beta Netherlands Holding N.V. to the shareholders of Deutsche Börse by the end of the additional offer acceptance period on August 1, 2011 (midnight, CEST) 2011.
Source: Deutsche Börse
