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Argentina To Have Its First Gold Futures Contract - On November 8, The New Gold Futures And Options Contract Will Begin Trading In ROFEX.
November 4, 2010--As from November 8, gold futures and options will be traded for the first time in Argentina. This new hedging tool, approved by the National Securities Commission, will be listed next week and will be part of ROFEX´s Financial Derivatives Division.
“The launching of the gold contract sprang from an initiative of Banco Ciudad, the main participant of the local gold market, which will also act as the product’s Market Maker, allowing traders to find a liquid market”, stated Luis Ossola, ROFEX´s president.
Taking as a reference the most important markets in the world, ROFEX will be the first local derivatives market to offer gold futures contracts, whose reduced size as compared to international contracts will offer the retail investor the possibility to participate. It will be quoted in US dollars per troy ounce (31.103 grams), in line with international trading.
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Source: Rofex
Mutual funds losing favour
November 4, 2010--Actively-managed mutual funds in Canada and elsewhere are losing favour compared to Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and Index Funds. Why is this? For the answer, look no further than the online quarterly update from Standard & Poor’s Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard (SPIVA).
According to the latest SPIVA report, only 30.4 per cent of Canadian Equity Mutual Funds were able to outperform the TSX Composite Index in 2009. The report further concludes that these funds outperformed the index in only 12.5 per cent and 7.4 per cent of cases over the previous three- and five-year periods, respectively.
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Source: Peninsula News
Global X Funds Launches First Gold Explorers ETF
November 4, 2010--Global X Funds, the New York based provider of exchange traded funds, launched today the Global X Gold Explorers ETF (Ticker: GLDX). This is the world's first ETF offering access to a unique segment of the gold mining life cycle: gold exploration companies.
"Gold exploration companies offer high risk-return characteristics with the potential to strike a gold mine, literally," CEO Bruno del Ama said.
Global X Gold Explorers ETF tracks the Solactive Global Gold Explorers Index, which is designed to track the performance of the largest and most liquid listed companies globally active in the exploration of gold.
"We believe an ETF is a fantastic structure to provide access to this segment of the gold mining industry," said Jose C. Gonzalez, Head of Operations. "This is the venture capital of gold, and GLDX offers the opportunity to capture the fantastic returns of one company striking gold while smoothing over the losses generated by failed projects."
Global X Funds will follow with a Global X Uranium ETF (Ticker: URA) launch tomorrow.
Source: Global X Funds
SEC Extends New Short Sale Rule Compliance Date
November 4, 2010--The Securities and Exchange Commission has extended the date for compliance with the Commission's new short sale rule to Feb. 28, 2011. The extension was granted to give certain exchanges additional time to modify their market opening, reopening, and closing procedures for individual securities covered by the rule, and in order to provide additional time to market participants for programming and testing of systems for implementation.
The Commission's new short sale rule will restrict the prices at which a stock can be sold short if the stock's price drops 10 percent or more in one day.
The Commission's extension of the compliance date from Nov. 10, 2010, to Feb. 28, 2011, is available on the SEC website (www.sec.gov).
Source: SEC.gov
PowerShares files with the SEC
November 4, 2010--PowerShares has filed a post effective amendment, registration statement with the SEC for
PowerShares S&P® Bank Loan Portfolio
Investment Objective
The Fund seeks investment results that correspond (before fees and expenses) generally to the price and yield of an index called the S&P/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index.
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Source: SEC.gov
Latin America: Climate for Doing Business Improving in Most of the Region
November 4, 2010- Twelve of 20 economies in Latin America reformed business regulation to expand opportunity for local firms in the past year, according to Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, the eighth in a series of annual reports published by IFC and the World Bank.
Peru improved business regulation the most in the region, moving up 10 places in the global ranking on the overall ease of doing business, to 36 (among 183 economies). Peru was also among the world's 10 most active economies, improving in four of nine areas covered by the report. It created an online one-stop shop for business registration, improving the ease of business start-up more than any other economy. Peru also streamlined permits for construction, introduced fast-track procedures at the land registry, and eased trade with a new Web-based electronic data interchange system.
Economies in Latin America are improving regulation with faster, transparent, electronic systems. For example, Nicaragua improved electronic payment of taxes and expedited trade by migrating to an electronic data interchange system for customs. "New technology underpins regulatory best practice around the world," said Sylvia Solf, lead author of the report. "Technology makes compliance easier, less costly, and more transparent."
Chile, the region's runner-up regulatory reformer, moved up from 53 to 43 in the global ranking on the ease of doing business by introducing an online system for business registration and strengthening investor protections. Brazil eased business start-up by enhancing electronic synchronization between federal and state tax authorities. Colombia made it simpler to obtain permits for construction by improving the electronic verification of prebuilding certificates.
view Doing Business 2011 Fact Sheet – Summary of Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Source: World Bank
NSX Releases October 2010 ETF Data Reports
November 3, 2010--Highlights from the October report include:
Assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) reached a record of $940.4 billion at October 2010 month-end. This is an increase of approximately 33% over October 2009 month-end when assets totaled $707.4 billion.
ETF/ETN notional trading volume during October 2010 totaled $1.35 trillion, representing 28% of all U.S. equity trading volume.
Total Global/Int'l Equities and Total U.S. Equities led all product categories with approximately $8.3 billion and $2.1 billion, respectively, in net cash inflows.
ETF net cash flows for the month totaled over $13 billion, bringing the year to date total to approximately $88.7 billion.
At the end of October 2010, there were 1066 listed products.
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Source: National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX)
Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Mary Miller
November 3, 2010- The U.S. Department of the Treasury is offering $72 billion of Treasury securities to refund approximately $13.8 billion of privately held securities maturing on November 15, 2010. This will raise approximately $58.2 billion. The securities are:
A 3-year note in the amount of $32 billion, maturing November 15, 2013;
A 10-year note in the amount of $24 billion, maturing November 15, 2020; and
A 30-year bond in the amount of $16 billion, maturing November 15, 2040.
The 3-year note will be auctioned on a yield basis at 1:00 p.m. EST on Monday, November 8, 2010. The 10-year note will be auctioned on a yield basis at 1:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, and the 30-year bond will be auctioned on a yield basis at 1:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 10, 2010. All of these auctions will settle on Monday, November 15, 2010.
The balance of Treasury financing requirements will be met with the regular weekly bill auctions, the regular monthly nominal coupon security auctions, the November 10-year TIPS reopening auction and the January 10-year TIPS auction.
view Average Maturity of Treasury Marketable Securities--Total Outstanding (in months)
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury
SEC Proposes New Whistleblower Program Under Dodd-Frank Act
November 3, 2010--The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose a whistleblower program to reward individuals who provide the agency with high-quality tips that lead to successful enforcement actions.
The SEC’s proposed rule under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act maps out a simple, straightforward procedure for would-be whistleblowers to provide critical information to the agency. It conveys how would-be whistleblowers can qualify for an award through a transparent process that provides them a meaningful opportunity to assert their claim to an award.
view Proposed Rules for Implementing the Whistleblower Provisions of Section 21F of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Source: SEC.gov
ELX Market Share Soars in Two-Year U.S. Treasury Futures Contract
November 3, 2010--ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX) announced today that it has set a new market share record in its two-year U.S. Treasury Futures contract, with market share soaring to 13.4% on Tuesday, November 2, 2010.
This milestone follows new records in open interest (OI) and volume for ELX's Eurodollar Futures contract, which exceeded 100,000 contracts in October, with OI more than doubling every month since its launch in June 2010.
Neal Wolkoff, Chief Executive Officer of ELX Futures, said, "ELX has seen a surge in momentum in our futures products, achieving several new milestones in recent weeks. The surge in volume in our two-year Treasury note and new records in our Eurodollar Futures contract is a testament to the great interest by market participants for an alternative futures marketplace."
Source: ELX Futures
