Global Macro Trading Theme: Focus on Fixed Income
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com update provides insight for those who are focused on the global macro approach to a topic that many of the world’s leading hedge funds and professional investment managers are fixated on: fixed income. Below thoughts are courtesy of the 27 March a.m. edition of “Sight Beyond Sight”, the  investment newsletter authored by Neil Azous […] Read More

27 March, 2015

Electronifying Corporate Bond Trading Chapter 12: Electronifie
In Fixed Income, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com merges Fixed Income and FinTech with continuing coverage of the corporate bond market’s effort to evolutionize via electronification with a focus on yet the latest innovator initiative courtesy of Goldman Sachs alumni Amar Kuchinad and his start-up“Electronofie.” Our hats are off in salute to the catchy company name and extracts below are courtesy of […] Read More

26 March, 2015

LSE Scores Listing of China’s First ETF
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse blog update profiles the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) Wednesday announcement that it had welcomed their first China ETF, Commerzbank CCBI RQFII Money Market UCITS ETF. This is an exciting new step as China hopes to have more offshore trading in the very near future. This ETF offers the abiltiy for those in the LSE to invest in […] Read More

26 March, 2015

London Likes The Dollar-PowerShares Lists New ETFs on LSE
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse ETF update profiles the latest entry to land of exchange-traded-funds with spotlight on Invesco PowerShares listing of U.S. dollar share class versions of its three exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the London Stock Exchange, allowing investors to access U.S. equity markets and trade in the rising domestic currency. Giving credit when due, below is […] Read More

26 March, 2015

ETF Land: Its All About the US Dollar
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse ETF update profiles the most talked about topic: the US Dollar courtesy of extract below from March 25th coverage from Todd Shriber of ETFtrends.com. Here’s the snippet: For over a year, exchange traded funds tracking the U.S. dollar have been the stars of the currency ETF group, but recent weakness in the greenback could […] Read More

26 March, 2015

Global Macro View From the Perch of Saxo Group:…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Uncategorized> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse Global Macro update profiles perceived opportunities from the perch of Denmark’s Saxo Group Mads KoefoedIt and his view that interest rate increases probably won’t happen during the second quarter, but the market will very likely be dominated by speculation on the likely timing of a US Fed interest rate hike. Focus on the Fed, […] Read More

26 March, 2015

Survey Says: Retail Investors Need An ETF Education
In Uncategorized> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update profiles a recent study done by Fidelity Investments and BlackRock, inc., have discovered a huge reason why retail investors are not comfortable investing in ETFs. The study which survey 1,000 individual investors and 250 advisors found that in order for retail investors to get on board the ETF train, they need some basic […] Read More

25 March, 2015

Contango Could Be Killer For Those Who Want Oil…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update profiles the close watch oil traders currently have on oil related ETF products such as the DNO or the USL. As investments into oil ETF products have continued to soar, resulting in a more stable oil market price, there is a risk that oil prices could drop and as a result cause people […] Read More

25 March, 2015

An ETF-only Exchange? BATS at Bat
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
They say you should always shoot for the moon and that is exactly what BATs exchange is doing. MarketMuse update profiles BATS exchange looks to hit it out of Nasdaq’s and the New York Stock Exchange’s parks. The ETF-only exchange out of Kansas City, BATS, is planning on becoming the number one ETF trading venue by […] Read More

24 March, 2015

Nasdaq Agrees To Power New Bitcoin Marketplace
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse blog update profiles Nasdaq recent agreement to power a new marketplace from bitcoin trading. Bitcoins are the largest decentralized digital currency in the market and has been taking the investment world by storm since its introduction in 2009 by its founder,  Satoshi Nakamoto. MarketMuse blog update is courtesy of Nasdaq’s article, “Nasdaq to Provide Trading Technology for […] Read More

24 March, 2015

The Survey Says: As Options Market Liquidity Wanes, Top…
In Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com Options market update focuses on recent industry report canvassing the perch of buyside managers perspective as to the good, the bad and the ugly sell-side broker elements they encounter in the course of increasing use of listed options products is courtesy of recent report issued by industry think tank, TABB Group. Not surprisingly, buy-side […] Read More

23 March, 2015

Vanguard To Launch Its First Ever Muni Bond ETF
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update profiles the largest mutual funds provider, Vanguard push to become the top ETF provider. Currently,  Vanguard is the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world, with about $451 billion in ETF assets under management, as of March 2015. Now Vanguard seeks to become the top ETF provider with its first ever muni bond, the Vanguard […] Read More

23 March, 2015

5 Reasons To Be High on High Yield Bonds
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
While high-yield bond followers are seemingly caught between a rock and a hard place as interest rates may be poised to pick up, some expert investors are positing that high yield positioning is precisely the tactical approach to maintain.. The following MarketsMuse.com fixed income fix is courtesy of contributed article “5 Reasons to Hold High […] Read More

22 March, 2015

ETFs To Hedge Against Strong Dollar-Currency Swinging
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com profile of ETFs intended to provide global-macro-focused investors with a hedge against a continuing strong dollar and currency swings is courtesy of below extract from Mar 20 WSJ column by reporter Carolyn Cui. Exchange-traded funds that protect against currency swings are attracting U.S. investors concerned that the strong dollar will erode their gains. Currency-hedged […] Read More

22 March, 2015

And, The Winner Is…According to ETF.com…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com ETF coverage profiles ETF.com Awards Ceremony courtesy of opening extract from ETF.com news release. Category winners for “best” and respective ‘runners up’ extend across best issuers, best strategists, best capital markets desk, and best products across equity, fixed income, and currency and include the following products: HEDJ, DXJ, CHNB, ZROZ, BNDX, VTI, EMQQ, FV, […] Read More

20 March, 2015

This Expert Says: “RISK OFF re High Yield Bond…
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com update courtesy of coverage by TheStreet.com Investors should avoid the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLU) despite the recent dovish talk by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, said Mohit Bajaj, Director of ETF Trading Solutions at WallachBeth Capital. Bajaj added that rising rates will hurt the XLU because power companies are levered to debt […] Read More

19 March, 2015

Risk Off or Risk On for Sweden ETF $EWD…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse.com update profiling iShares MSCI Sweden ETF ($EWD) and a global macro view is courtesy of extract from March 18th coverage by ETFtrends.com’s Todd Shriber Shares of the iShares MSCI Sweden ETF (NYSEArca: EWD) were modestly higher Wednesday after the Riksbank, the world’s oldest central bank, surprisingly took Sweden’s repo rate deeper into negative territory […] Read More

19 March, 2015

BlackRock New Bond ETF To Trade Like Common Stock
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager with over $4.59 trillion in assets under management. iShares is a section of BlackRock that is in control of hundreds of ETFs. As noted on iShares page and continued to ring true today, Many people are turning to ETFs for diversified, low-cost and tax efficient investing. ETFs can be a […] Read More

19 March, 2015