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Growth Returns to Latin America and Counter-Cyclical Policies Increase
April 18, 2017--Nearly half of the countries followed counter-cyclical policies: spending in bad times and saving in good times
Market watchers expect that the region's average growth will turn positive this year
Yet fiscal accounts have deteriorated after six years of economic slowdown
In a positive development, today more than ever before, Latin American and Caribbean countries are pursuing counter-cyclical fiscal policies- spending more in bad times and saving in good times, according to a new World Bank semiannual report for the region.
view the Leaning Against the Wind: Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in a Historical Perspective report
Source: World Bank
The FORUM at ETF Research Center-Energy Powers Q1 S&P Earnings Growth
April 17, 2017--Energy is likely to have been the biggest contributor to overall S&P 500 (SPY, IVV) earnings growth in Q1, the first time that sector has made any significant contribution since the downturn in oil prices several years ago.
That's one of several bright spots in our analysis of earnings expectations as Q1 reporting season gets under way (we've used actual results in place of consensus estimates for the few firms that have already reported).
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Source: AltaVista Research
CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update
April 14, 2017--The current reports for the week of April 11, 2017 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined
April 14, 2017--The Vanguard trading floor is the epicenter of one of the great financial revolutions of modern times, yet it is a surprisingly relaxed place.
A few men and women gaze at Bloomberg terminals. There is a muted television or two and a view of verdant suburban Philadelphia. No one is barking orders to buy or sell stock. For a $4.2 trillion mutual fund giant that is still growing rapidly, it occupies a small fraction of the space of a typical Wall Street trading hub.
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Source: New York Times
The Nasdaq Stock Market(R) Welcomes Seven New ETPs in the First Quarter of 2017
April 13, 2017--Paul Roland appointed head of ETP Listings
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ), the single largest U.S. equity exchange by market share, announced seven new exchange-traded products (ETP) listings from five different issuers during the first quarter of 2017.
Nasdaq n0w has a total of 332 products listed from 39 unique issuers as of March 31, 2017, representing a 38 percent increase in products versus the first quarter of 2016.
Additionally, Nasdaq announced that Paul Roland, Associate Vice President at Nasdaq, has been appointed to lead the U.S. ETP Listings business. He will report to Tal Cohen, Senior Vice President and Head of North American Equities.
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Source: Nasdaq.com
Institutional investors boost ownership of ETFs
April 13, 2017--Institutional investors increased their ownership of US exchange traded funds by $213bn in 2016 to $1.4tn, accounting for 59 per cent of all ETF assets, according to analysis from Deutsche Bank.
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Source: FT.com
IMF working paper-Demographic Changes in Latin America: The Good, the Bad and ...
April 13, 2017--The paper develops a simple, integrated methodology to project public pension cash flows and healthcare spending over the long term. We illustrate its features by applying it to the LAC5 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico), where public spending pressures are expected to increase significantly over 2015-50 due to demographic trends and rising healthcare costs.
We simulate alternative pension reforms, including the transition from a defined benefit to a defined contribution pension system and the fiscal burden of a minimum guaranteed pension under the latter. We also analyze public healthcare outlays in the LAC5, which is likewise expected to increase significantly over 2015-50 due to aging and the so-called excess cost growth factor of healthcare services, showing that curbing the evolution of the latter (e.g., through enhanced competition in the healthcare sector) could aid in containing spending pressures. Despite its simplicity, the methodology yields projections that compare well with other approaches. It therefore provides a good benchmark for assessing alternative reform scenarios, particularly in data-constrained countries.
view the IMF Working paper-Demographic Changes in Latin America: The Good, the Bad and ...
Source: IMF
Bats Welcomes New iShares Fund to Bats ETF Marketplace
April 13, 2017--Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company, and a leading market for exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading globally, today welcomed a new iShares iBond fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace.
The iShares iBonds Dec 2023 Term Muni Bond ETF (Bats: IBML) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of investment-grade U.S. municipal bonds maturing after December 31, 2022 and before December 2, 2023.
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Source: Bats Global Markets
SEC: Payments for Bullish Articles on Stocks Must Be Disclosed to Investors
April 10, 2017--The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced enforcement actions against 27 individuals and entities behind various alleged stock promotion schemes that left investors with the impression they were reading independent, unbiased analyses on investing websites while writers were being secretly compensated for touting company stocks.
SEC investigations uncovered scenarios in which public companies hired promoters or communications firms to generate publicity for their stocks, and the firms subsequently hired writers to publish articles that did not publicly disclose the payments from the companies. The writers allegedly posted bullish articles about the companies on the internet under the guise of impartiality when in reality they were nothing more than paid advertisements.
view the SEC Investor Alert: Beware of Stock Recommendations on Investment Research Websites
Source: SEC.gov
Reality Shares DIVS ETF (DIVY) Attracts $50 Million in Assets
April 7, 2017--The Reality Shares DIVS ETF (NYSE Arca: DIVY), the flagship fund from exchange-traded fund issuer and research firm Reality Shares, crossed the $50 million in assets under management threshold, less than three years after its debut
Since its inception over two years ago, in addition to its historical low volatility and low correlation qualities to both equities and bonds, DIVY has exhibited a historically low standard deviation.
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Source: realityshares.com
