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SEC kicks the bitcoin ETF approval decision down the road
October 13, 2016--The Securities and Exchange Commission late Wednesday declined to make a ruling on a bid to launch what would be the first exchange-traded fund that exclusively tracks the digital currency bitcoin.
The regulator said it was instead seeking additional public feedback on the proposal.
The decision is the latest delay for Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, whose proposed ETF is designed to trade baskets of shares tied to the digital commodity.
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Source: marketwatch.com
SEC approves fund liquidity rules, goes easy on ETFs
October 13, 2016--The top U.S. securities regulator on Thursday approved major new rules designed to protect mutual fund investors from the effects of a sudden sell-off, but it left for another day some of the dicier issues involved.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rules take aim at liquidity issues of the $18 trillion traditional mutual fund market.
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Source: Reuters
Infographic-How Does the U.S. Stock Market Perform in Election Years?
October 13, 2016--In just a few weeks time, the ballots will be in for one of the most controversial elections in U.S. history.
Whether the tally ends in a Clinton or Trump presidency, it's difficult to know the potential range of implications that the 2016 election will have on markets.
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Source: visualcapitalist.com
CFTC, SEC officials clash over source of thinner trading activity view
November 12, 2016--Federal regulators' lack of research into waning market liquidity is getting frustrating, J. Christopher Giancarlo, a commissioner at the Commodity Future Trading Commission, said.
Giancarlo, speaking on an Oct. 12 panel discussion at Georgetown University's McDonough Business School, made his criticisms just a few days after the most recent "flash crash" in which the British pound dropped 6 percent against the U.S. dollar.
October 12, 2016--The United States has a $18 trillion economy, which makes it the world's largest by GDP.
To show its tremendous size, we previously published a visualization of the global economy that carved the world’s economic production into slices based on each country's contribution to GDP. While this visualization helps to show how large the U.S. economy is in comparison to other nations, it still doesn't seem to tell the full story.
Source: visualcapitalist.com
