August 25, 2008—Claymore Securities, Inc., the third-fastest growing exchange-traded fund provider in 2007*, today announced the launch of the Claymore/Delta Global Shipping Index ETF (NYSE Arca: SEA) on NYSE Arca. SEA is the first shipping ETF that provides investors with a cost-efficient means of accessing the rapidly growing global shipping sector.

"Our proud celebration of these funds' three-year anniversary is improved as we recognize their compelling performance and five-star ratings from Morningstar," said Bruce Bond, president and CEO of Invesco PowerShares. "Both PWV and PWJ are based on quantitative, rules-based Intellidexes designed to maximize the potential for outperformance. Invesco PowerShares is committed to delivering value and market-leading ideas to investors, as we seek to enhance their portfolios with our pioneering family of ETFs."

"Our proud celebration of these funds' three-year anniversary is improved as we recognize their compelling performance and five-star ratings from Morningstar," said Bruce Bond, president and CEO of Invesco PowerShares. "Both PWV and PWJ are based on quantitative, rules-based Intellidexes designed to maximize the potential for outperformance. Invesco PowerShares is committed to delivering value and market-leading ideas to investors, as we seek to enhance their portfolios with our pioneering family of ETFs."

The German lender which counts itself as the No. 3. ETF provider in Europe, is looking to enter the Hong Kong market within "weeks, not months" and later move into Singapore and Japan, said Thorsten Michalik, head of the firm's db x-trackers unit.

The new funds are:

The Global Sector Series is initially focusing on the following four sectors:

Effective today, NASDAQ listed the iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index Fund (Nasdaq:AAXJ). The Fund is based on the MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan Index which consists of the following 11 developed and emerging market country indices: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Horizons BetaPro COMEX(R) Gold Bull Plus Fund was merged into the Horizons BetaPro COMEX® Gold Bull Plus ETF; the Horizons BetaPro NYMEX(R) Oil Bear Plus Fund was merged into the Horizons BetaPro NYMEX(R) Oil Bear Plus ETF; the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX 60 Bear Plus Fund was merged into the Horizons BetaPro S&P/TSX 60(R) Bear Plus ETF; and the Horizons BetaPro S&P 500 Bear Plus Fund was merged into Horizons BetaPro S&P 500(R) Bear Plus ETF.

The gold ETF is one of the largest and most liquid commodity ETFs globally with total net assets of approximately $148 billion. The listing of the gold ETF on the Stock Exchange will give investors an additional channel to access the international gold market.

The SGAM ETF Private Equity LPX 50 (ISIN FR0010413518) allows investors to participate for the first time in the performance of the LPX 50 index. The LPX 50 index tracks the performance of the 50 largest and most liquid private equity companies in the world. It represents approximately 70 percent of the overall market for exchange-traded private equity companies.

The FTSE Coast Kuwait 40 Index is designed to represent the performance of the Kuwait Stock Exchange in real time, for the purpose of trading exposure and derivative trading on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Companies listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange are ranked by free float adjusted market-cap and liquidity with the top 40 ranked companies entering as constituents of the index.

UniCredit has signed up as an Authorised Participant to the range of SPA MarketGrader ETFs and is now able to create and redeem ETF units in SPA’s European funds on behalf of clients in Europe. SPA ETFs’ European range of funds are currently listed in the UK and Italy.

"The NASDAQ OMX Global Agriculture Index is comprised of many of the world's most innovative companies that are committed to meeting growing worldwide demand for increased agricultural and farming productivity," said NASDAQ OMX Executive Vice President John Jacobs.

Conventional mutual funds that follow these strategies have been a big hit with investors, particularly in 401(k) retirement accounts, since the government made it much easier for plans to use the funds as default investments as part of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. But the move could represent a gamble by Barclays, because many experts regard these strategies as particularly ill-suited to ETFs.

July 22, 2008--TMB Asset Management Co., Ltd. (TMBAM) will manage MTrack Energy ETF, SET President Patareeya Benjapolchai said.

“The ETF provides investors with increased choice and another risk management instrument. Because the ETF is underpinned by diverse stocks in a sector with large market capitalization and high liquidity, it will attract investors wishing to avoid the risks entailed in individual stock investment. It will also increase trading volume, Ms Patareeya added.

MTrack Energy ETF’s IPO price, or par value, will be calculated by dividing the SET Energy and Utility Sector Index by 4,000, and should be around THB 4, TMBAM CEO Jotika Savanananda said.

The FTSE/JSE Shariah Top 40 Index is a selection of Shariah compliant companies from the FTSE/JSE Shariah All-Share Index. The calculation of the index and the treatment of corporate actions are similar to the FTSE/JSE Top 40.

Effective today, NASDAQ listed the WisdomTree Middle East Dividend Fund (Nasdaq:GULF). The WisdomTree Middle East Dividend Fund is based on the WisdomTree Middle East Dividend Index. GULF provides investors with exposure to approximately 70 dividend-paying companies listed in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

During June 2008, NASDAQ's average daily matched volume in NYSE-listed stocks was a record 1.06 billion shares, a 107% increase compared with the same period last year. NASDAQ's matched market share in NYSE-listed securities last month was a record 23.0%, up from 15.9% in June 2007.

The vast majority of the fund's assets will be in ETFs. It's designed to track the performance of hedge funds as a group. If hedge funds perform well, so does the fund.

“Over the last 20 years, DAX has established itself as a global brand for the German economy and its best companies. An inclusion in the DAX-Index is a synonym for the most exclusive club for German enterprises. This draws international attention and also the focus of investors on those companies ,” said Deutsche Börse AG Executive Board Chairman Reto Francioni.

Why Global Wind Energy? Energy demand is expected to rise 53% between 2006 and 2030, with 30% of this demand coming from developing nations like China and India.1 As a result of this rising demand, attractive clean energy alternatives have become multi-billion dollar markets.2

A price index fund on the German blue chip index DAX becomes tradable on Xetra for the first time, with the ETFlab DAX (price index), ISIN DE000ETFL060. The new distributing ETF complements the existing tradable performance index funds with automatic dividend reinvestment on the DAX index. DAX comprises the top 30 German public limited companies with the highest turnover listed on the Prime Standard on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB®).

As a blue-chip index, the SMI® is Switzerland’s most recognised stock index. It reflects the price action of the 20 largest and most liquid shares included in the Swiss Performance Index (SPI®) and represents roughly 84% of the entire free-float capitalisation of the Swiss equity market.

ETFs aim for "asset management linked to specified stock price indexes, etc.," and as such, have the quality of very closely tracking the market prices of the underlying stock price index, etc.

The NASDAQ OMX(r) Clean Edge(r) Global Wind Energy Index is a modified market-capitalization index and includes companies that are primarily manufacturers, developers, distributors, installers, and users of energy derived from wind sources. "Wind energy is one of the world's fastest growing energy industries and the launch of this index brings more focus and definition to this important source of clean energy," said NASDAQ OMX Executive Vice President John Jacobs. "This index is also a valuable addition to NASDAQ OMX's current offering of environmental sustainability indexes."

“We are delighted to have NASDAQ OMX develop the HKMEx trading platform,” said Barry Cheung, Chairman of HKMEx. “In order to create and handle high liquidity and trading volumes on our exchange, we need to operate on a secure and scalable high-end platform. Our selection of NASDAQ OMX was based on their proven technology as well as their long and successful experience in both the commodity and Aspac markets.”

The BGI-sponsored ETFs are trading on the NASDAQ ETF Market. This market is designed specifically to support ETFs and Index Linked Notes (ILNs) during their critical period of incubation and further strengthen NASDAQ's leadership position in the U.S. ETF sector.

June 25, 2008 – WisdomTree (WSDT ) announced today the listing of the WisdomTree Dreyfus New Zealand Dollar Fund (BNZ) and WisdomTree Dreyfus South African Rand Fund (SZR) on the NYSE Arca.

June 24, 2008--Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today announced the kickoff of an ambitious effort to examine fundamental questions about the way the SEC acquires information from public companies, mutual funds, brokers, and other regulated entities, and the way it makes that information available to investors and the markets.

The aim of the wide-ranging internal inquiry will be to outline the attributes of the disclosure system for the future that incorporates technology, the new ways in which investors get their information, and recent developments in how companies compile and report the information in their SEC-mandated disclosures.

June 23, 2008--Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX Limited, two leading global index providers, today announced the Dow Jones Luxury Index — which launched today, and existing Dow Jones STOXX 600 Index have been licensed to BNP Paribas to serve as the basis for two exchange-traded funds. Both the EasyETF DJ Luxury and EasyETF STOXX 600 are available today at Euronext.

The Dow Jones Luxury Index is a new index designed to measure the market performance of companies worldwide that derive a sizeable portion of revenues from providing “luxury” goods and services.

Preliminary results indicate that the AMC memberships voted 695 to 7 in favor of the transaction. The number of AMC memberships voted in favor of the transaction represented approximately 84% of the total AMC memberships outstanding and entitled to vote on this transaction.

June 17, 2008--NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced that eight new PowerShares Deutsche Bank Metals and Oil ETNs issued by Deutsche Bank began trading on NYSE Arca.

June 16, 2008-- With the start of trading on 16 June, the Bulgarian Stock Exchange has been using Xetra® – the fully electronic trading system of Deutsche Börse Group. The contract governing the technical market control of the stock exchange in Sofia has an initial term of five years. Deutsche Börse will be responsible for organizing trading in approximately 500 securities listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange.

June 16, 2008 - First Trust Advisors L.P. (“First Trust”) today announced the anticipated launch of the First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy Index Fund. The industry’s first wind energy exchange-traded fund (ETF) is anticipated to begin trading on June 18th on the NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol (NYSE Arca: FAN). First Trust will be the investment advisor for the ETF.

“First Trust is pleased to introduce an ETF product that focuses entirely on wind energy,” said Robert Carey, CFA, and Chief Investment Officer of First Trust.

European Last Sale will provide real-time intra-day trade data from the NASDAQ OMX system for OMX Nordic and Baltic exchange-listed securities. Upon the launch of the NASDAQ OMX Pan-European Market, the European Last Sale will also include access to real-time intra-day trade data from the Pan-European Market as well.

“Within a short space of time, ETCs have become a successful new product group on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange,” said Rainer Riess, Managing Director and Head of Cash Market Development at Deutsche Börse. “We are pleased to have the opportunity to further expand our investment range in the ETC segment with the innovative products from ETF Securities and to enable investors to implement new strategies in commodities.”

"Recognizing the demand in the marketplace for investments that satisfy the specific needs of retirees, we designed Retirement Payout Portfolios to also provide active risk management in two distinct ways," says John Ciampaglia, Vice President of Product Development. "First, the Portfolios follow a built-in 'GlidePath' asset allocation strategy that becomes gradually more conservative over time. Plus, they offer investors the rich benefits of global investing with the added comfort and protection of currency hedging."

"This is an important, and in many ways, overdue development in the U.S. securities markets," stated Adena Friedman, Executive Vice President, NASDAQ OMX. "With universal access to the Internet and the real-time nature of the web, investors need real time data, and now they don't have to pay for it, thanks to CNBC, Google, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network and Xignite."

The exit may have something to do with cutbacks at Morgan Stanley, IndexUniverse speculates. It had been reported last month that the bank's ops in the U.K., where Fuhr worked, could eliminate at least 350 positions as part of reductions worldwide.

This strong outperformance was based on the fundamental selection of stocks at the last quarterly re-balancing of the portfolio in February, when the MG 40 was overweight Energy, Information Technology, Basic Materials and Industrials relative to the S&P 500. These have been the best performing sectors over the past 3 months with particularly strong returns coming from stocks in the Energy and Information Technology sectors. The MG 40 was also underweight Financials relative to the S&P 500, which was the worst performing sector.

May 28, 2008--Recent market turmoil has again highlighted the importance of a sound and well functioning financial market organization. Consequently, market transparency and effective risk management are key aspects of the current public debate to improve market integrity and efficiency. Given that background, Deutsche Börse and Eurex have published the White Paper “The Global Derivatives Market – An Introduction” with the aim to contribute an objective and fact-based foundation to the debate. The paper discusses the fundamentals and characteristics of the derivatives market as well as the imperatives for its well-functioning.

The S&P Global Natural Resources Index is designed to provide diversified, highly liquid and investable exposure across the primary commodity sectors of energy, agribusiness and metals & mining. Each of these sectors has two clusters – energy (oil, coal and gas), agribusiness (agriculture & livestock) and metals and mining (precious and industrial). The index offers focused coverage of the 60 largest companies across these six clusters, and is designed primarily for structured product providers and ETFs.

The new exchange-traded funds will enable investors to gain exposure to such diverse sectors as banking and water as well as to trade growth and value companies. Investors also will have the chance to increase their exposure to Brazil with the Lyxor ETF Brazil, the second ETF to be listed on the market after the ETF on the FTSE Latibex Brasil, which was listed in February 2007.

The funds launched today on NYSE Arca are part of Northern Trust’s NETS™ suite of ETFs, which are designed to offer exposure for U.S. investors to international equity indexes by tracking the following major foreign market indexes:

April 16, 2008--The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced consolidated market performance statistics for its U.S. and Nordic exchanges for the month of April 2008.

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The db x-trackers II Short iBoxx € Sovereigns Eurozone TR Index ETF (ISIN: LU0321463258) enables investors to participate in the opposite performance of the index of the same name. The iBoxx € Sovereigns Eurozone TR Index reflects the performance of all euro-denominated government bonds issued by governments in the euro zone. It covers all maturity ranges of government bonds issued in the euro zone.

Among the certificates are 2 classified as "outperformance", 1 linked to the BBVA underlying asset and another one on Santander. In addition to this, 3 other twin win certificates were listed that are linked toTelefónica, Santander and BBVA. The expiration date for all the certificates is April 2011.

NSX completed its move last week to its new headquarters at 101 Hudson Street, Suite 1200, Jersey City, NJ, from its former Jersey City location at 525 Washington Blvd. Phone numbers are unchanged. The main phone number for NSX Jersey City office remains 201-499-0159.

No changes were made to the allocation models this month.The moderate portfolio has a 35% allocation to mortgage-backed securities, 30% to investment-grade corporates, 15% to federal agencies, 15% to preferreds, and 5% to non-USD sovereign debt.

Changes were made to 3 of the 10 sector weightings in the model. Our US equity strategy team made three changes to its sector model today. With the S&P 500 hovering around the top of its recent trading range (1260 - 1400), these changes partially reflect the team's view that they see no strong case for a decisive move to the upside in equities.

TMBAM’s team consists of Phatra Securities PCL (PHATRA) as market maker, and Capital Nomura Securities PCL (CNS) and TISCO Securities Co., Ltd. (TISCO) as participating dealers, SET President Patareeya Benjapolchai said.

“This ETF will be our first based on a sector index and widens the variety of investment tools available on the market. As energy stocks are highly liquid and attractive to investors, this new product is expected to appeal to locals and foreigners, and hence increase market competitiveness,” Ms. Patareeya said.

PowerShares Autonomic Global Asset Portfolios

The PowerShares Autonomic Global Asset Portfolios are designed to provide investors convenient access to long-term, core asset allocation strategies based on three targeted-risk profiles: balanced, balanced growth and growth. They are based on indexes composed of PowerShares ETFs representing a range of asset classes.1

ETF industry assets rose approximately $22.9BN and 16 new ETFs were launched during the month of April.

May 6, 2008--Deutsche Börse achieved its best quarter ever in the first three months of financial year 2008. At €644.5 million, sales revenues were up by 19 percent on Q1/2007 (€543.1 million) reflecting record trading volumes and the full consolidation of the International Securities Exchange (ISE). A further €64.3 million was generated from net interest income from banking business (Q1/2007: €46.1 million). Total costs in the first quarter amounted to €316.1 million (Q1/2007: €313.3 million), including some €10 million in depreciation of intangible assets related to ISE. EBITA rose to a new record of €425.8 million in the first quarter (Q1/2007: €300.3 million), up by 42 percent. The net financial result of the Group in the first quarter was positively impacted by a non-realized currency gain of some €25 million related to the ISE financing. Earnings per share for the average of 192.1 million shares in the first quarter rose 61 percent to €1.58 (Q1/2007: €0.98 for 195.3 million shares).

Deputy Head of Media Relations is Heiner Seidel (36). He holds a degree in business administration and has been working for Deutsche Börse in various positions within the Corporate Communications department since 2001. Seidel joined the Media Relations in 2006. In addition to his role as Deputy Head of Media Relations he acts as a spokesperson for Eurex (derivatives market) and Deutsche Börse Systems. The Media Relations team is part of Corporate Communications which is headed by Rüdiger Assion (41).

The five WisdomTree Dreyfus ETFs are:

Chinese Yuan Fund , Indian Rupee Fund (CDNX:ICN.V - News), Euro Fund , Brazilian Real Fund and Japanese Yen Fund .

They invest in money markets of the associated currencies.

ETF net cash inflow for the month of April 2008 totaled $36 million and notional trading volume during April 2008 totaled $1.6 trillion. The current number of U.S. listed ETFs has increased 49 percent to 740 compared to April 2007 when 496 ETFs were trading. In addition, there are currently 33 issuers of ETFs/ETNs compared with 18 issuers at the same time last year.