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Tokyo Commodity Exchange: Circuit Breakers In And After February 16th, 2016

Date 28/01/2016

Circuit breakers in and after February 16th 2016 will be handled as follows for the time being; provided, however, that the Exchange might change the Initial CB Trigger Levels, CB Expansion Amounts, and number of expansion, etc., when it deems necessary.

FIA Rings Closing Bell At New York Stock Exchange To Celebrate Global Merger

Date 28/01/2016

FIA leadership joined president and CEO Walt Lukken today to celebrate FIA’s recent merger by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The bell ringing took place during the first board meeting under FIA’s new global structure, where board members and global executives gathered to discuss priorities and strategy for the newly merged organization in 2016.  

New Study On Weekly, Monthly S&P 500 PutWrite Indexes Released

Date 28/01/2016

• Compares Performance of Two Benchmarks with Traditional Stock, Bond Indexes
• First Comprehensive Study to Examine Strategy Benchmark Incorporating Weeklys Options

BATS ETF Marketplace Welcomes New Proshares ETF - EMDV Begins Trading Today On BATS

Date 28/01/2016

BATS Global Markets (BATS), the #1 U.S. market for the trading of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), today welcomed the ProShares MSCI Emerging Market Dividend Growers ETF (BATS: EMDV), which began trading today on The BATS ETF Marketplace.

Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks As Of Settlement Date January 15, 2016

Date 27/01/2016

At the end of the settlement date of January 15, 2016, short interest in 2,308 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 8,194,947,190  shares compared with 7,935,162,458 shares in 2,304 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of December 31, 2015. The Mid-January short interest represents 5.32 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.26 days for the prior reporting period.

NYSE, NYSE Arca And NYSE MKT Report Short Interest

Date 27/01/2016

NYSE today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of January 15, 2015.

CFTC Signs MOU With Two German Authorities To Enhance Supervision Of Cross-Border Clearing Organizations

Date 27/01/2016

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) and Deutsche Bundesbank (Bundesbank) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of clearing organizations that operate on a cross-border basis in the United States and in Germany.

Board Of Governors Of The Federal Reserve System: Federal Open Market Committee Reaffirms Its "Statement On Longer-Run Goals And Monetary Policy Strategy"

Date 27/01/2016

As part of its annual organizational meeting actions, the Federal Open Market Committee reaffirmed its "Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy," with a revision to clarify that it views its inflation objective as symmetric, and with an updated reference to participants' estimates of the longer-run normal unemployment rate in the most recent Summary of Economic Projections (December 2015).

Federal Reserve Issues FOMC Statement

Date 27/01/2016

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that labor market conditions improved further even as economic growth slowed late last year. Household spending and business fixed investment have been increasing at moderate rates in recent months, and the housing sector has improved further; however, net exports have been soft and inventory investment slowed. A range of recent labor market indicators, including strong job gains, points to some additional decline in underutilization of labor resources. Inflation has continued to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run objective, partly reflecting declines in energy prices and in prices of non-energy imports. Market-based measures of inflation compensation declined further; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations are little changed, on balance, in recent months.

Office of Financial Research Update: 2015 Annual Report To Congress

Date 27/01/2016

The OFR released its 2015 Annual Report to Congress today, fulfilling its statutory responsibility to report on potential threats to U.S. financial stability, key research findings, and progress in meeting its mission. The report also describes the 2016 agenda of the Office. The report says threats to U.S. financial stability have edged higher since last year's report, but remain in the medium, or moderate, range; that assessment has not changed since the Federal Reserve incrementally increased short-term interest rates last month.