Currency

The ETF provider, Lyxor, indicated that the volume of ETFs and other exchange-traded products rose significantly last week by approximately 75% as investors looked to protect their money in money market ETFs. Due to recent market volatility, many investors have shifted out of fixed-income instruments and into equities funds reported Lyxor in its weekly market [...]

FAZ the leveraged inverse ETF for the financial sector has moved upward over 18% thus far intraday in today’s trading action thus far, as a barrage of continuing downgrades in the financial sector have driven the financial sector downward, resulting from Friday’s downgrade of US debt by Standard and Poor’s. UPDATE: FAZ the bear oriented [...]

Today Deutsche Bank has launched five new currency-hedged ETFs which attempt to reduce risk for investors who invest in international equities, but may face currency risk from a strengthening dollar. The five new ETFs are: DBJP – db-x MSCI Japan Currency-Hedged Equity Fund DBBR – db-x MSCI Brazil Currency-Hedged Equity Fund DBCN – db-x MSCI [...]

Fund issuer State Street Global Advisors has launched two ETFs – S&P Emerging Markets Dividend Fund (EDIV) and Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Bond Fund (EBND). The new ETFs are designed the fill the gap created by absence of funds that help investors control exposure to debt and dividend investments in a precise manner. The [...]

PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish Fund (trading symbol: UUP), which has roughly $1 billion in assets, has seen some sharp changes in 2010, but has settled within a narrower range since about the middle of August says John Spence of Dow Jones in a Wall Street Journal article.

Next ETFs has plans for a new series of ETFs. The issuer is expected to start with a unique US ETF which would track the premier Nikkei 225 Japanese index. The Nikkei 225 Index is a leading Japanese benchmark made up of 225 liquid stocks within the Tokyo Stock Exchange. According to the press release, [...]

WisdomTree has just launched a new actively managed ETF that provides access to local emerging market debt. The exposure to the emerging market debt will be in that market’s local currency. The fund, known as WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD), has begun trading on the NYSE Arca and has $125 million in assets, [...]

WisdomTree has just launched a new actively managed ETF that provides access to local emerging market debt. The exposure to the emerging market debt will be in that market’s local currency. The fund, known as WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD), has begun trading on the NYSE Arca and has $125 million in assets, [...]

Investors will now have additional access to many emerging markets through the use of a new ETF issued by Van Eck Global. The new ETF, known as Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond ETF (EMLC), is described in the press release as tracking a “basket of bonds issued in local currencies by emerging market [...]

Twelve new currency ETNs are now available for trade on Xetra. ETF Securities has issued the unique group of ETNs, which focus on foreign exchange rates with the euro, as well as emerging market currency. According to the press release, the new ETNs will allow investors the ability to capture exchange rates of the euro [...]