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Dow Jones Indexes and UBS Announce 2011 Weights of Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index
December 29, 2010-- Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, and UBS Investment Bank announced the new target weightings for the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity IndexSM that will become effective in early January 2011.
The new target weights for the commodity components, which were determined and approved by the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Supervisory Committee following consultation with the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Advisory Committee, are listed below.
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Source: Dow Jones Indexes
BlackRock to launch trading platform
December 28, 2010--BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, expects to launch an internal trading platform next year in a move that would strike at the heart of the profit centres of many Wall Street firms.
BlackRock is hiring programmers and other high-tech workers to build the platform, expected to be one of the world’s largest.
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Source: FT.com
AllianceBernstein files with the SEC
December 28, 2010--AllianceBernstein has filed a first amended and restated application for exemptive relief with the SEC for index-based ETFs and actively managed ETFs.
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Source: SEC.gov
AdvisorShares files with the SEC
December 28, 2010--AdvisorShares has filed post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
SiM Dynamic Allocation Diversified Income ETF (DINC) and
SiM Dynamic Allocation Growth Income ETF
(DGRO)
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Source: SEC.gov
Claymore files with the SEC
December 28, 2010---Claymore has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
Guggenheim China Consumer ETF
and
Guggenheim China Infrastructure ETF
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Source: SEC.gov
Claymore files with the SEC
December 28, 2010--Claymore has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
Guggenheim BRIC ETF and
Guggenheim International Small Cap LDRs ETF
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Source: SEC.gov
WisdomTree files with the SEC
December 28, 2010--WisdomTree has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
WisdomTree Dreyfus Brazilian Real Fund (BZF)
WisdomTree Dreyfus Chinese Yuan Fund (CYB)
WisdomTree Dreyfus Commodity Currency Fund (CCX)
WisdomTree Dreyfus Emerging Currency Fund (CEW)
WisdomTree Dreyfus Euro Fund (EU)
WisdomTree Dreyfus Indian Rupee Fund (ICN)
WisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen Fund (JYF)
WisdomTree Dreyfus New Zealand Dollar Fund (BNZ)
WisdomTree Dreyfus South African Rand Fund (SZR)
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Source: SEC.gov
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
December 27, 2010--The CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports for the for the week of December 27, 2010 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
NASDAQ Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date December 15, 2010
December 27, 2010--- At the end of the settlement date of December 15, 2010, short interest in 2,371 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 6,527,169,027 shares compared with 6,732,687,149 shares in 2,386 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of November 30, 2010. The mid-December short interest represents 3.85 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.39 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 487 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 313,338,005 shares at the end of the settlement date of December 15, 2010 compared with 301,703,821 shares in 487 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.63 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.48.
In summary, short interest in all 2,858 NASDAQ® securities totaled 6,840,507,032 shares at the December 15, 2010 settlement date, compared with 2,873 issues and 7,034,390,970 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.84 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.39 days for the previous reporting period.
The open short interest positions reported for each NASDAQ security reflect the total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.
For more information on NASDAQ Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/MasterDataEntry.asppage=ShortInterest or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
Source: NASDAQ OMX
Emerging Markets Week in Review-12/20/2010 - 12/24/2010
December 27, 2010--The Dow Jones Emerging Markets Sector Titans Composite Index climbed 1.35% last week as all sectors were positive.
Materials and Consumer stocks, the two best performing groups this quarter, led the market up, increasing 2.27% and 1.74% respectively.
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Source: Emerging Global Advisors
