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Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, June 16-17, 2015
July 8, 2015--A meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee was held in the offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. and continued on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at 9:00 a.m.
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Source: Federalreserve.gov
New pressure on city as Wall Street jobs sail away
New Jersey is offering a bucketful of tax breaks if JPMorgan Chase will move jobs across the Hudson. It's a movie we've all seen many, many times.
July 8, 2015--Twenty years ago, if you wanted to work on Wall Street, odds are you ended up in Manhattan.
After all, it was where the jobs were, with 27% of the industry's workforce huddled around the warrens of the financial district or the office towers of midtown. Today, New York is still where the action is. But it's not where the jobs are.
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Source: Crain's New York
In Day's Second Big Computer Glitch, NYSE Halts Trading
July 8, 2015--It's a heckuva day for IT professionals. At around 11:30 am today, trading on the New York Stock Exchange came to an abrupt halt,
and while the reasons for the disruption are still unclear, in a statement, the NYSE confirmed that "technical issues" are to blame.
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Forensic Accounting ETF To List On NASDAQ view more Compass EMP Lists Three New Exchange-Traded Funds on The Nasdaq Stock Market The funds will begin trading today, July 8, 2015.
ALPS Adds Sprott Gold Miners ETF to Schwab ETF OneSource Program IMF Country Report-United States: Selected Issues This creates not only fiscal but also financial risks: moral
hazard from coverage of credit losses by the government or the government-
sponsored enterprises, a distorted competitive landscape due
to the dominant footprint of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and large subsidies for homeownership that create
incentives to take on excessive levels of household debt. view more CBO-H.R. 2354, Streamlining Excessive and Costly Regulations Review Act
Based on information from the SEC, CBO estimates that the new review and reporting activities required under the bill would not have a significant effect on the agency's
workload. view more Warren, McCain introduce bill to bring back Glass-Steagall view more Delayed reporting seen boosting U.S. bond liquidity view more
Source: Wired
July 8, 2015--The Forensic Accounting ETF (NYSE Arca: FLAG) announced today that it has filed an application to list its common stock on the NASDAQ.
Upon approval of its application, the Forensic Accounting ETF expects that its shares of common stock will begin trading on the NASDAQ on July 20, 2015 under the symbol, FLAG.
Source: Exchange Traded Concepts, LLC
July 8, 2015--Alternative Approach Combining Fundamental Criteria With Broad Market Volatility Weighting of Individual Securities
July 8, 2015--Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that Compass EMP, a Victory Capital investment franchise, will list three new exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Compass EMP US Small Cap 500 Volatility Weighted Index ETF (Symbol: CSA),
Compass EMP US Large Cap High Dividend 100 Volatility Weighted Index ETF (Symbol: CDL) and Compass EMP US Small Cap High Dividend 100 Volatility Weighted Index ETF (Symbol: CSB) on The Nasdaq Stock Market(R).
July 7, 2015--ALPS, a DST Company announced that the Sprott Gold Miners Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) SGDM, is available on Schwab ETF OneSource(TM)-the program that provides investors and advisors with access to the most commission-free ETFs1 in the industry.
The industry's first factor-based gold mining ETF, the Sprott Gold Miners ETF, was created with Sprott Asset Management LP, a globally renowned investor in precious metals.
July 7, 2015--HOUSING FINANCE
While a number of important steps
have been taken to address the structural weaknesses exposed by
the crisis in mortgage markets, comprehensive housing finance reform remains the largest piece of unfinished business.
In particular, it is not clear when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will
exit conservatorship and what an end point for a reformed housing finance system will look like.
Source: IMF
July 7, 2015--H.R. 2354 would require the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review its regulations every five years to determine whether they are outmoded, ineffective, or excessively burdensome.
Using the results of the review, the agency would then need to
consider modifying or repealing such rules and submit a report to the Congress for each rule change.
Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
July 7, 2015--Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) are reintroducing legislation to revive the Glass-Steagall Act, which would force big banks to split their investment and commercial banking practices.
Glass-Steagall was first passed in 1933 but repealed during the Clinton administration, leading many progressives to argue that it contributed to the 2008 financial collapse.
Source: TheHill.com
July 7, 2015--Relaxing the required reporting time for bond trades might help restore some of the liquidity that the $8 trillion U.S. corporate debt market has lost, dealers and large investors said.
The fear is that declining liquidity, stemming from tougher capital rules on large banks, in this and other debt sectors poses growing risk for the entire bond market in times of distress, or if investors reduce bond holdings once the Federal Reserve begins raising interest rates.
Source: Reuters
