NYSE Euronext (NYX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, NYSE Arca, today began trading the Global X China Materials ETF (Ticker: CHIM). The ETF is sponsored by Global X Funds.
The fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the S-BOX China Materials Index. The Index is a free float adjusted, liquidity tested and market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure performance of the investable universe of companies in the Materials sector of the Chinese economy, as defined by Structured Solutions AG, which generally includes companies whose businesses involve: chemicals; metals and mining; and forestry and paper products.