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November 2024 Financial Stability Report (FSR) is as follows: Even after recent declines in equity prices, prices remained high relative to analysts' earnings forecasts, which adjust more slowly than market prices. Treasury yields across maturities remained at the higher end of their levels since 2008. Spreads between yields on corporate bonds and those on comparable-maturity Treasury securities were at moderate levels compared to their history, despite recent increases. Liquidity across many financial markets remained low through the end of March and deteriorated further in April, but market functioning was generally orderly. In U.S. property markets, home prices remained elevated, and the ratio of house prices to rents continued to be near the highest levels on record. Source: federalreserve.gov |
April 15, 2025-This landmark launch of the 3iQ Solana Staking ETF (TSX: SOLQ), backed by robust lead investment, underscores 3iQ's track record as a trailblazer in delivering fully regulated, first-to-market digital asset investment products, including Canada's first publicly traded Bitcoin and Ether funds, The Bitcoin Fund (TSX: QBTC) and The Ether Fund (TSX: QETH).
April 14, 2025--Commission-Free Trading on 11,000+ U.S.-Listed Stocks and ETFs Now Available to Select U.S. Clients
Kraken, one of the longest standing and most secure cryptocurrency platforms, today announced the initial rollout of commission-free trading for over 11,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs to clients in New Jersey, Connecticut, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, Iowa, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Alabama and the District of Columbia.
April 14, 2025--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division today issued an interpretation to clarify the types of assets that qualify as eligible margin collateral for certain uncleared swap transactions under CFTC regulations.
April 14, 2024-- Desjardins Investments Inc. (DI), acting as manager for Desjardins Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), announces the launch of four (4) new index exchange traded funds.
April 11, 2025--Precidian Investments, an industry leader in the creation of innovative financial products, today announced that, effective April 23, 2025, it will be moving its suite of ADRdedgedTM ETFs to NYSE Arca, the top U.S. exchange for ETFs.
April 10, 2025--SS&C ALPS Advisors, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC), has partnered with Ladenburg Thalmann Index, LLC to launch the ALPS Electrification Infrastructure ETF (Nasdaq: ELFY) (the "Fund").
April 10, 2025—Division of Corporation Finance
As part of an effort to provide greater clarity on the application of the federal securities laws to crypto assets,[1] the Division of Corporation Finance is providing its views[2] about the application of certain disclosure requirements under the federal securities laws to offerings and registrations of securities in the crypto asset markets.
April 9, 2025--New tool from Bloomberg Electronic Trading enhances ETF list trading
Bloomberg today announced the launch of Strategy Optimizer, a tool that increases the efficiency of the ETF trading workflow, and helps reduce overall cost of execution.
April 8, 2025--Teucrium launches the Teucrium 2x Long Daily XRP ETF (Ticker: XXRP), designed to offer investors leveraged exposure to the daily price movements of the cryptocurrency XRP.
Teucrium, a provider of innovative exchange-traded funds (ETFs), is excited to announce the launch of the Teucrium 2x Long Daily XRP ETF (Ticker: XXRP), which is designed to offer investors leveraged exposure to the daily price movements of XRP, a widely traded cryptocurrency within the digital asset market.1
April 8, 2025--The federal budget deficit totaled $1.3 trillion in the first half of fiscal year 2025, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. That amount is $245 billion more than the deficit recorded during the same period last fiscal year. Revenues increased by $71 billion (or 3 percent), and outlays rose by $317 billion (or 10 percent).