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Beige Book-August 2025
September 3, 2025-Overall Economic Activity
Most of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts reported little or no change in economic activity since the prior Beige Book period-the four Districts that differed reported modest growth. Across Districts,contacts reported flat to declining consumer spending because,for many households,wages were failing to keep up with rising prices.
Contacts frequently cited economic uncertainty and tariffs as negative factors. New York reported that "consumers were being squeezed by rising costs of insurance,utilities,and other expenses." Contacts observed the following responses to the consumer pullback. Retail and hospitality sectors offered deals and promotions to help price-sensitive consumers stretch their dollars-supporting steady demand from domestic leisure tourists but not offsetting falling demand from international visitors. The auto sector noted flat to slightly higher sales,while consumer demand increased for parts and services to repair older vehicles. Manufacturing firms reported shifting to local supply chains where feasible and often using automation to cut costs.
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Source: federalreserve.gov
AlphaBit Investments Launches DADS ETF: A Digital Asset Debt Strategy ETF Offering Risk-Managed Exposure to Digital Asset Revolution
September 3, 2025--AlphaBit Investments, LLC, in partnership with Tidal Investments LLC, announced today the launch of the Digital Asset Debt Strategy ETF (NASDAQ: DADS), an actively managed exchange-traded fund that provides investors with risk-managed exposure to the digital asset ecosystem through a diversified portfolio of debt securities.
We believe the DADS ETF addresses a critical gap in the market by offering professional investors and financial advisors a structured pathway to participate in the digital asset revolution without the extreme volatility typically associated with direct cryptocurrency investments. The fund seeks to combine the growth potential of the rapidly expanding digital asset sector with the stability potential typically associated with fixed-income investing.
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Source: AlphaBit Investments
Defiance Launches LLYZ: The First 2X Short ETF for Eli Lilly
September 3, 2025--Defiance ETFs, a leader in thematic and leveraged exchange-traded funds, today announced the launch of the Defiance Daily Target 2X Short LLY ETF (Ticker: LLYZ). This fund provides investors with amplified 2X inverse daily exposure to the performance of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), enabling retail investors to seek enhanced downside exposure without the need for a margin account.
LLYZ seeks to deliver daily investment results. before fees and expenses, of -200% of the daily performance of Eli Lilly and Company. The Fund utilizes derivatives such as swaps and options to achieve its leveraged objectives, offering precise exposure to this issuer.
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Source: Defiance ETFs
Tidal Investments LLC, a Tidal Financial Group company, Announces Recapitalization with Insignia. Fuels Next Phase of Growth
September 3, 2025--Tidal Investments LLC, a Tidal Financial Group company, the ETF Masters, today announced it has concluded a recapitalization with Insignia Capital, a private equity firm based in California.
This recapitalization comes at a time of strong momentum for Tidal. As of September 1, 2025, the platform supports more than 270 ETFs, including 89 new launches in 2025 alone, and has surpassed $45 billion in assets under management. Tidal serves over 80 asset managers, with rapid momentum evidenced through a series of high-profile client wins and continues to expand its breadth of services.
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Source: Tidal Financial Group
GraniteShares Launches ETORO and WEBULL Leveraged Single-Stock ETFs: ETRL & BULX
September 3, 2025--GraniteShares 2x Long ETOR Daily ETF (ETRL) and GraniteShares 2x Long BULL Daily ETF (BULX) Launch Today.
GraniteShares, a provider of exchange traded funds (ETFs), today announced the launch of two new leveraged single-stock ETFs:
GraniteShares 2x Long ETOR Daily ETF (NASDAQ: ETRL), and GraniteShares 2x Long BULL Daily ETF (NASDAQ: BULX)
An investment in these ETFs provides investors daily leveraged exposure to the two respective underlying stocks: eToro Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: ETOR) and Webull Corporation (NASDAQ: BULL).
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Source: GraniteShares
SoFi Announces the Agentic AI ETF, Providing Access to Next Wave of AI
September 3, 2025--SoFi Announces the Agentic AI ETF, Providing Access to Next Wave of AI
SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI) is announcing the availability of a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the SoFi Agentic AI ETF (NYSE Arca: AGIQ). AGIQ will invest in U.S. companies included in the BITA US Agentic AI Select Index, which is designed to track businesses involved in developing, providing, or utilizing agentic AI technologies.
The index currently includes companies such as Salesforce, Tesla, and NVIDIA, though holdings are subject to change.
The emergence of agentic AI -autonomous systems capable of making decisions, initiating actions, and collaborating with other agents or humans - is marking a paradigm shift for its potential to drive real-world productivity gains across sectors. According to the World Economic Forum, the market for agentic AI is projected to expand significantly by 2030.
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Source: SoFi
Global X Selects ICE Indices for Four New ETFs in Canada
September 3, 2025--Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, today announced that ICE indices have been licensed by Global X Investments Canada Inc. ("Global X") for four BetaPro ETFs. The ETFs provide three times (300%) and inverse three times (-300%) daily exposure to the performance of key U.S. market segments ranging from semiconductors to U.S. treasuries.
"We are excited to work with ICE indices for the benchmarks underlying Canada's latest 3X leveraged and inverse ETFs," said Chris McHaney, Executive Vice President, Investment Management & Strategy at Global X. "With a built-in currency hedge to help neutralize U.S. dollar movements, our BetaPro 3X and -3X ETFs can offer Canadian investors a more refined tool for dynamic trading and portfolio diversification.”
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Source: Intercontinental Exchange
Nottingham Shareholder Services Introduces ETF Lighthouse: A Patent-Pending Solution for ETF Share Class Exchanges
September 3, 2025--Automated platform bridges the gap between mutual fund and ETF systems, eliminating next-day market risk and accelerating readiness for the dual shares class structure.
Nottingham Shareholder Services today announced the launch of ETF Lighthouse, a patent-pending platform purpose-built to solve one of the biggest barriers facing fund sponsors preparing for ETF share class exchanges: operational readiness.
Regulators are nearing approval of ETF share class exchanges, but most firms remain unprepared to execute them. The most significant obstacle lies in the back-end operations, ensuring seamless communication and reconciliation between intermediaries, transfer agents, custodians, and fund sponsors. Without a standardized process, fund families risk costly delays, errors, and exposure to next-day market risk.
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Source: Nottingham Shareholder Services
LionShares Launches Debut ETF, TOT, to Capture U.S. Equities' Total Return
September 3, 2025--Newly founded issuer introduces an innovative tax-advantaged solution targeting investors' real return on the U.S. equity market
LionShares, a newly established ETF issuer led by former quantitative trader Sofia Massie, announces today the launch of the LionShares U.S. Equity Total Return ETF (NYSE Arca: TOT).
The actively managed fund is designed to give investors streamlined access to the broad U.S. equity market while aiming to pay no dividends, thereby minimizing tax drag.
TOT aims to provide long-term capital growth by investing in exchange-traded funds that track the broad U.S. equity market, with the flexibility to use futures or options when needed for efficiency. What makes its strategy innovative is that, unlike traditional equity ETFs that pass taxable dividends to shareholders, TOT actively minimizes dividend distributions to eliminate the tax drag that chips away at performance year after year. Through this approach, TOT seeks to help investors keep more of their returns compounding within the fund, removing the need to reinvest dividends and enabling full-time investment.
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Source: LionShares
Polymarket receives green signal from CFTC for US return
September 3, 2025--The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday approved Polymarket,the world's largest prediction market,to relaunch in the country,more than three years after its exit.
The decision comes amid a debate in the financial sector,with some experts highlighting prediction markets as superior to traditional polls,while others argue that these markets are little more than "digital casinos".
Polymarket allows users to profit from predictions on a wide range of events,including sports,entertainment,politics and the economy. Trading in such event contracts has surged in popularity since the U.S. presidential election last year.
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Source: reuters.com
