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Sec Lending Makes These ETFs Profitable
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
Its all about Securities Lending aka Sec Lending for certain ETFs to outperform and be profitable for investors looking for ways to offset the fund’s expense fees. MarketsMuse salutes Eric Balchunas at Bloomberg for his a.m. report: “Hedge Funds Will Pay for You to Own Small-Cap ETFs” (Bloomberg)- With many exchange-traded funds already dirt cheap, […] Read More

18 February, 2016
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SEC Aims To Ban Geared ETFs
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
The US SEC apparently has its cross-hairs on so-called ‘geared ETFs,’  those high-testosterone, levered instruments that incorporate derivatives so as to deliver an advertised 2x or 3x return for certain strategies versus a typical 1:1 correlation provided by plain vanilla exchange-traded funds.  The SEC proposal would effectively ban the use of those products altogether. As […] Read More

12 February, 2016
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Only Idiots Use USO ETF to Trade Oil-It Can’t…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
For those who are confused as to the near-term, or even longer-term price direction of Oil, even J.R. Ewing would tell you there isn’t an oil man in Texas, including Boone Pickens, who can see far beyond the prices posted at the pump. Especially when one gas station in Oklahoma is now selling one gallon […] Read More

11 February, 2016
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Junk Bond ETFs-The Liquidity Debate Goes to SEC
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse ETF and Fixed Income curators have frequently spotlighted the ongoing debates as to whether corporate bond ETFs, and in particular, junk bond-specific exchange-traded-funds pose special risks. Some argue that a liquidity crisis could unravel the high yield bond sector if/when institutional investors decide that risk of recession continues to ratchet higher, leading all of […] Read More

8 February, 2016
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Global Macro Guru Says: Look Out Below
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse curators are often most inspired by views expressed by those dedicated to interpreting and positing financial market outlooks via a global macro lens. This ‘style’ requires a disciplined process and for those who are best in the practice of this dark art, the projections are often prescient. With that, we point to opening commentary […] Read More

8 February, 2016
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Professional Investors Are Impaired Says MarketsMuse
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
Referring to anyone as ‘being impaired’ is not a compliment. And, in the world of financial market punditry, where at least half of the experts are best at telling their audience what happened during the past 12 hours, while another 45% who position themselves as forecasters are right maybe 50% of the time, its no […] Read More

5 February, 2016

TradeWeb Muscles Into ETF Execution Space
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Fixed Income trading platform TradeWeb, best known for its dominant role administering OTC government securities trading between global banks and institutional customers is muscling into the world of ETFs. Tradeweb has just launched an electronic over-the-counter marketplace for trading exchange traded funds using a “request-for-quote” aka “RFQ”- based platform that is modeled after a platform […] Read More

3 February, 2016

Global Macro View-Friday’s Stock Rally In Perspective
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse curators have canvassed assortment of guru-types who have attempted to decipher Friday’s stock rally, along with tuning in to the abundance of Monday morning quarterback views. For those who turn to the cartoon channel (i.e. CNBC), some pundits call it a dead cat bounce, more optimistic professional traders and pontificators would like to believe […] Read More

1 February, 2016
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Invesco Pushes Canada’s Neo Exchange Into ETF Listing War
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Traders Magazine)- According to the ETF curators at MarketsMuse, “..If you’re going to dominate the ETF space, you should own your own exchange..” and with that,  Canada’s upstart Aequitas Neo Exchange has landed its first listed exchange traded fund in Canada – from mega money manager Invesco, whose Canada counterpart Invesco Canada is also an […] Read More

29 January, 2016
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Oil-Slippery Slope for Traders and Pundits Alike-Except One..
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(SubstantiveResearch.com). Trading oil or simply just talking about where, when and why this commodity will assert a more predictable pricing direction has proven to be a slippery slope for professionals and pundits alike. Expressing views via the actual barrel (WTI) or via an ETF (e.g. USO, BNO etc) has been challenging for the best of […] Read More

29 January, 2016
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NYSE Hold on ETF Business Slipping?
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg LP)-NYSE Group Inc. may still be the king of exchange-traded funds among U.S. stock markets, but their hold on the ETF business might be slipping as Issuers, including BlackRock seek other listing venues and challengers to the throne are gaining ground. Last year, a record 23 ETFs left the company’s NYSE Arca exchange, shifting […] Read More

27 January, 2016
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Even Blockheads Get Blockchain and Corporate Bond Issuance
In Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse fintech and fixed income curators are both noticing increasing upticks in stories relating to the use of blockchain technology specifically for use within the corporate bond issuance process. We might have been one of the first to focus on this application despite the early stage push back from IT blockheads within the securities industry who “didn’t […] Read More

21 January, 2016
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Global Macro-Don’t Shoot This Prescient Messenger
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(SubstantiveResearch.com) Neil Azous from Rareview Macro writes that many in the market still don’t get the joke of what’s going on – that is, a true exercise in risk reduction led by real money or that the bears are in charge. Indeed, he observes much of communications he and his team have been receiving is […] Read More

21 January, 2016
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Goldman Sachs in Whopping 5bil Settlement Over MBS Deals
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Announced after the close of trading on Thursday, Goldman Sachs $5.1 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, AGs from NY and IL and two other federal agencies in connection with the big bank’s underwriting and sale of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) sounds whopping, but seemed to have little impact on the Squid’s stock price […] Read More

14 January, 2016
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Options Mart’s CBOE To Make Major Overhaul
In Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMedia : not to be confused with Madmen Media, owner of MarketsMuse.com)– In order to keep up with the demands of today’s high-volume electronic markets and leverage their fintech muscles, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the top options mart player plans to migrate its CBOE and C2 options markets as well as its CBOE Futures […] Read More

14 January, 2016
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Chicago FinTech Firm: Secondary Market for Crowdfunding
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMuse courtesy of Chicago Tribune)-The notion of a secondary trading market for crowdfund investments is not new–a topic that MarketsMuse has profiled more than once during past several months, but those efforts have been more noticeable outside the US. That’s now changing. Chicago-based CFX Markets launched a platform Tuesday allowing crowdfunding investors to sell their shares […] Read More

6 January, 2016
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Credit Suisse Bids Adieu to Mr. Algo in Wake…
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg LP reporting via TradersMagazine) — Dan Mathisson, aka “Mr. Algo”, the executive who helped build Credit Suisse Group AG into an electronic-trading powerhouse over the past decade, plans to leave the bank at the end of next month, according to people familiar with the matter. Mathisson, who most recently served as head of U.S. […] Read More

6 January, 2016
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MarketsMuse 2016 Debt Market Outlook-The Caribbean Connection
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
To kick off the 2016 debt market outlook, MarketsMuse fixed income curators are looking forward to the next Caribbean boondoggle, and in that spirit, we extend a shout out to Ron Quigley, one of the primary debt capital market’s top pulse-takers who also goes by the title Head of Fixed Income Syndicate for boutique investment bank, Mischler […] Read More

5 January, 2016