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Consumer, business spending support U.S. third-quarter growth
December 22, 2015--The U.S. economy grew at a fairly healthy clip in the third quarter as strong consumer and business spending offset efforts by businesses to reduce an inventory glut, underscoring its resilience despite a raft of headwinds.
Gross domestic product grew at a 2.0 percent annual pace, instead of the 2.1 percent rate reported last month, the Commerce Department said in its third estimate on Tuesday
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Source: Reuters
SEC exam questions dive deeply into retirement-account advice
Through its queries to financial advisers, the regulator is asserting its presence in an area normally associated with the Labor Department
December 22, 2015--The Securities and Exchange Commission is diving deeply into the retirement-account advice that investment advisers and brokers are giving to their clients, asserting the agency's presence in an area normally associated with the Labor Department.
As part of its examination sweep, the SEC is sending to financial advisers a 13-page information request that includes 75 queries.
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Source: investmentnews.com
The National Stock Exchange Re-Launches Trading Operations
A No-Conflict Exchange Focused on Clients and Innovation
New Fee Structure Immediately Delivers Client Savings
December 22, 2015--This morning the National Stock Exchange, Inc. ("NSX") re-launched trading operations for equity securities and ETFs.
The NSX is now under the direction of a new ownership group and management team, which recapitalized and restructured NSX after it ceased trading operations in May 2014.
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Source: National Stock Exchange, Inc.
Invesco PowerShares Announces Changes to ETF Product Lineup
December 22, 2015-Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading
global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with more than $100 billion in franchise assets, announced today changes to its product lineup.
As part of the firm's commitment to aligning its fund offerings to meet an evolving investment landscape, Invesco
PowerShares announced it will change the underlying indexes, but not the index provider for four ETFs.
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Source: Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC
strategy provides European equity exposure with potential for better risk-adjusted returns
December 21, 2015--J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced that its newest ETF, the JPMorgan Diversified Return Europe Equity ETF (JPEU), will officially begin trading today. Further expanding J.P. Morgan's strategic beta suite, JPEU is the fifth product offered since the launch in June 2014.
JPEU is designed to serve as the foundation of a developed Europe equity portfolio, combining portfolio construction with stock selection in an effort to produce higher returns with lower volatility than traditional market cap-weighted indices.
Source: J.P. Morgan Asset Management
December 21, 2015--JPMorgan Asset Management is making its first push into the active exchange traded fund market with an alternative-strategy
fund in an effort to build momentum in the fledgling ETF business.
Source: FT.com
Two executives suspended and fined
December 21, 2015--The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ordered investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. to pay $7.3 million in sanctions for allegedly selling billions of unregistered microcap shares and having inadequate supervisory policies and anti-money laundering programs in place, the regulator announced on Monday.
Two executives were also suspended and fined.
Source: investmentnews.com
December 21, 2015--For the week of December 14-December 18
Macro
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised rates
for the first time in nine years as was widely telegraphed by Fed governors if not overtly stated yet somehow markets
reacted on Thursday and Friday as if they'd been hit in the face with a frying pan.
Wednesday, both equity prices and
treasury yields moved higher but then Thursday and Friday equity prices tumbled lower perhaps questioning growth
prospects while treasury yields moved lower too giving fuel to the deflationary argument that exists and includes the dramatic and ongoing decline in West Texas Intermediate
Crude which was down 2.68% this past week after a 10% drop the week before.
Source: AdvisorShares
December 21. 2015---Indxx LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the Indxx Global Natural Resources Income Index (the "Index"). The Index has been licensed to noted Wheaton, Illinois-based ETF issuer First Trust Advisors L.P. for their exclusive use as the underlying benchmark for the First Trust Indxx Global Natural Resources Income ETF, which began trading today (NASDAQ: FTRI).
The ETF previously traded under a different symbol (NASDAQ: CU), and tracked a different underlying benchmark.
Source: Indxx LLC
December 19, 2015--US regulators are getting another three months to weigh the hotly debated efforts of IEX, the US trading venue at the heart of Michael Lewis's book Flash Boys, to become a registered exchange.
A successful application would put IEX on an equal footing with the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and BATS Global Markets.
Source: FT.com
