National Stock Exchange(SM) (NSX(R)) today announced that U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) assets reached $572.8 billion at the end of February 2008, an increase of 29 percent over $443.1 billion at month-end February 2007.
The current number of U.S. listed ETFs has increased 52 percent to 690 compared to February 2007 when 453 ETFs were trading. ETF net cash outflow for the month of February 2008 totaled $12.9 billion and notional trading volume during February 2008 reached a total of $1.5 trillion.
This data is included in NSX's February 2008 Month-End ETF/ETN Data Report released today. NSX began publishing Data Reports with the release of the June 2007 Report. These Data Reports are published following the end of each calendar month.
The NSX monthly statistics include shares of open-end exchange-traded products, encompassing listed shares of investment companies, grantor trusts, ETNs and commodity pools.
NSX's full report provides ETF data on Assets Under Management (AIM), Net Cash Flow and Notional Volume, broken out by Issuer, by Category, and the Top 10 ETFs by Size. To view this report go to: http://www.nsx.com/marketdata_monthly_etf.html.
In addition, NSX publishes a product-by-product breakdown of the 690 ETFs on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/marketdata_monthly_etf2.html.
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