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Many new exchange-traded funds face a problem. That being they are new. In what amounts to nothing more than warped Wall Street wisdom, with wisdom probably not the best word to use there, investors flock to hot IPOs or new stocks, but wait months for new ETFs to gather what they deem to be an...

Jeffrey Gundlach's DoubleLine Capital and State Street Corp (NYSE: STT)'s State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, tripled the size of their ETF partnership Thursday with the introduction of two new funds. The two new actively managed ETFs,...

The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday afternoon that Bats Global Markets's initial public offering raised $252.7 million from the sale of 13.3 million shares at $19. The company initially planned on selling 11.2 million shares between $17 and $19 per share but was upsized due to strong...

Investing in European equities and exchange-traded funds has been tricky this year. The European Central Bank (ECB) has yet to give demanding investors something to really cheer about, and with the Federal Reserve still sounding dovish tones, the dollar's upside against the euro is seen as...

In what is shaping up to be another trying year for emerging markets equities and the relevant exchange-traded funds, investors opting to remain long developing world stocks should prize factors such as consistent dividend growth and quality. Due to a variety of factors, including rising debt loads...

WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ: WETF), the fifth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, introduced on Thursday the latest in the company's long line of dividend-focused funds with the debut of the WisdomTree Global SmallCap Dividend Fund (BATS: GSD). GSD is another boon for Kansas-...

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, made a major splash Monday in the marriage of two hot ETF themes – currency hedging and low volatility – with the introduction of five such funds. “Four of the five funds are...

DAS (Direct Access Software) Trader is an industry leader in direct access trading technologies. The company, founded 10 years ago by Karen Gentile, offers an end-to-end electronic trading solution to market participants of all sizes and expertise. Benzinga had a rare opportunity to have a...

By Bryan Wiener, Sang Lucci contributor When the US option exchanges, headed by the CBOE, ISE and PHLX, set out to expand the US equity options market via the introduction of the mini-option classes in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), SPDR Gold (NYSE: GLD), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)...

By: Bryan Wiener Early next year, assuming that the ineptitude of the US regulatory system stands, the two largest US non-NYSE or NASDAQ stock exchanges will merge in a deal that has yet to be defined financially. The two exchanges, each of which trade approximately 11 percent of the average...

Monday, August 5, marked the launch of the International Securities Exchange’s secondary marketplace, Gemini. Originally filed with the SEC under the name Topaz, Gemini is now the twelfth U.S. options market and the third launched within the past 12 months (Miami Options Exchange and Nasdaq BX...

Spain's benchmark Ibex 35 Index was halted for nearly five hours earlier Monday after a trading glitch caused trading in Madrid to stop. The Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles SA, the company that oversees the stock exchange, could not comment on the nature of the glitch and only said that trading had...