MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends' Tom Lydon.  The U.S. exchange traded products industry hit a major milestone last year, eclipsing $2 trillion in assets under management, but industry observers do not see that growth slowing. Rather, it is expected that ETFs will continue their exponential growth rate in the…Read More

Greenwich Associates study reveals difficulty in executing corporate bond trades; Transparency and Liquidity are Lacking MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from Jan 23 Wall Street Letter, followed by our own comments (thanks to our Exec Editor’s providing more than average knowledge of corporate bond trading and the assortment of electronic…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from BrokerDealer.com and Traders Magazine via Bloomberg LP (Bloomberg) -- China is considering allowing international investors to buy bonds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through the link between the Hong Kong and Shanghai bourses. “We can offer more diversified products,” Huang Hongyuan, president of the Shanghai…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Inside Bitcoins' Kyle Torpey.  Much of the bitcoin community is excited at the prospect of a bitcoin ETF due to the assumption that it could bring many new speculators into the market. After all, if everyone with access to assets traded on the NASDAQ can just as easily trade bitcoin…Read More

“And the nominees are…” MarketsMuse update profiles ETF industry portal ETF.com annual awards for ‘Best Of’ across 25 different categories, with more than 100 nominees. Winnners will be announced at an awards dinner that will take place March 19 at Pier 61 in New York City. Below please find the…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Zacks.com from Nasdaq. The U.S. aviation industry has been on cloud nine since the oil price succumbed to gravity.  Moreover, a pickup in the domestic economy, rising cargo demand, a boost to tourism and the subsiding Ebola scare put the industry in the top-performing category.  The…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Tom Lydon from ETF Trends. This update acts as a follow up from one of yesterday's posts. Thursday’s biggest financial market headlines came courtesy of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), which opted to drop the franc’s peg to the euro, a move that sent the Swiss…Read More

Marketsmuse.com update profiling Swiss National Bank (SNB) lowering of deposit rate to a -0.75% has, as noted by Neil Azous of global macro think Rareview Macro LLC,  “shocked the markets” and "will be booked into the Black Swan record books as an event to be remembered. " Below update starts…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Todd Shriber from ETF Trends. The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (NYSEArca: GREK) is off 3% to start 2015 and with anxiety running high that Greece is still a candidate for departure from the Eurozone, global equity market volatility and investors’ skittishness is on the rise. With Greek…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon.   In 2014, just over 200 new exchange traded products launched in the U.S., more than double the nearly 90 that closed, but even with launches continuing to easily outpace closures, some major ETF issuers are getting choosy about the new number…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Nasdaq’s Len Zacks. 2015 has started out week for the US equity market but Direxion has a plan to change that. After delivering handsome returns last year, the U.S. equity markets have started the year on a weak note.  Slumping crude oil prices, strong dollar and global…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of AsiaAsset News The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) will unveil its first ETF option next month as a testing ground for the pilot stock option trading program in China. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said it has authorized the SSE to launch the pilot program with…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Reuters in CNBC The NYSE has recently come close to completing a deal with some big banks to take over running the banks’ dark pools. Now, NASDAQ is proposing an alternative solution as they eye running dark pools for banks as well. Nasdaq OMX Group has…Read More

Below extract courtesy of global macro trading think tank Rareview Macro LLC 's  Jan 13 edition of daily commentary via "Sight Beyond Sight" [caption id="attachment_2349" align="alignleft" width="200"] Neil Azous, Rareview Macro[/caption] To Russia Without Much Love: Crude Catalyst and Credit Impact With another day of lower Crude Oil prices, the…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Reuters. Egypt prepares for the first ETF to be traded on their stock exchange for the first time ever on Wednesday, January 14. They hope that this will help gain more foreign investors and boost cash flow.  Egypt's stock exchange will allow trading in Exchange Traded…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF.com’s Cinthia Murphy Steven Wallman was a commissioner with the SEC in the mid-1990s. An authority on securities markets and trading, today he leads an ETF-centered online brokerage, Folio Investing. Wallman is also keen on seeing the SEC start using a thoughtful “holistic” method to evaluate…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends’ Todd Shriber. After finishing lower for a second consecutive year in 2014, diversified emerging markets exchange traded funds are off to decent though not spectacular starts in 2015. Off to a more impressive start than broader peers, such as the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF…Read More

MarketsMuse update on the downtick in oil prices and impact on high yield bond ETFs, including energy-sectory junk bonds includes extract from Institutional Investor Jan 7 coverage by Andrew Barber. MarketsMuse editor note: The recent implosion of crude oil prices has triggered a conundrum for almost every investment analyst who…Read More