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OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index Policy Trends up to 2025

February 12, 2025- Abstract
The OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) provides annually updated, comparable information on regulations affecting trade in services across 51 countries and 22 sectors from 2014 to 2024.

The OECD's quantification of services regimes across countries and over time seeks to inform the decisions of policy makers and regulators, to convey transparent and accessible information to exporters, and to provide a source of data for academic research on drivers and impediments to services trade.

This report highlights key policy developments up to 2025 and the latest trends affecting services trade. It also indicates best practices and the countries that lead in services reforms.

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Uranium: Canada aims to become World's Biggest Uranium Producer as demand soars!

January 8, 2025--Canada is racing to become the world's biggest uranium producer as prices for the radioactive metal surge in response to soaring demand for emissions-free nuclear power and geopolitical tensions threaten supplies.

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The Global Cooperation Barometer 2025-Second Edition

January 7, 2025--Global cooperation is at a crossroads. While overall collaboration has flatlined, driven by heightened geopolitical tensions and instability, positive momentum in areas of climate and nature, innovation and technology, and health and wellness offer hope.

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Americas


February 13, 2025 Cboe BZX files landmark SEC request to enable staking for 21Shares' Ethereum ETF
February 12, 2025 Invesco Actively Managed Exchange-Traded Fund Trust files with the SEC-Invesco SteelPath MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF
February 12, 2025 Simplify Exchange Traded Funds files with the SEC-Simplify High Yield PLUS Credit Hedge ETF
February 12, 2025 Amplify ETFs to Liquidate Two ETFs
February 12, 2025 Sprott Funds Trust files with the SEC-Sprott Active Gold & Silver Miners ETF

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Europe ETF News


February 05, 2025 Goldman Sachs Asset Management Expands Fixed Income ETF Range with Two Active High Yield Bond ETFs
February 05, 2025 Abrdn and JPMorgan move to bolster European active ETF suites

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Asia ETF News


February 13, 2025 Mirae Asset's spot gold ETF tops $2.5b in net assets
February 11, 2025 CTBC Launches CTBC U.S. Innovation Technology ETF, Tracking the Solactive U.S. Innovation Technology Index
January 31, 2025 India's economy likely to grow 6.3%-6.8% in 2025/26, government report says
January 31, 2025 Hong Kong to open door to first single-stock leveraged ETFs in Asia

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Global ETF News


February 12, 2025 Bybit and Block Scholes Report: Timing Altcoin Season in a Sea of Uncertainty Bybit Logo (PRNewsfoto/Bybit)
January 17, 2025 As One Cycle Ends, Another Begins Amid Growing Divergence
January 15, 2025 WEF-These are the biggest risks we face now and in the next 10 years

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Middle East ETF News


January 17, 2025 Economic growth in MENA, on track as oil production cuts ease

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Africa ETF News


January 21, 2025 South African growth outlook has improved but inflation risks abound, central bank says at Davos
January 14, 2025 JSE plunges to lowest level in four months

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