Exchange-Traded Funds

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) on Thursday published the framework for the launch of UK pension superfunds, a new structure designed to ease the burden of Britain's 2 trillion pound ($2.5 trillion) final salary pension sector on cash-strapped firms.

The New York Federal Reserve's planned launch on Tuesday of a bond-buying facility could help ease the potential stigma for companies of asking for help and create an important framework for what the central bank steps in to purchase, analysts and investors said.

The United States Oil Fund LP, the largest U.S. oil-focused exchange-traded product, stated on Friday in a regulatory filing https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1327068/000117120020000430/i20391_uso-8k.htm that it has gained approval to resume offering new shares.

Argentina's stocks are rocketing, outpacing equity market peers around the world in the second quarter as growing risk appetite has lured investors to the country's listed firms despite biting economic and debt crises.

A rise in the cost of holding U.S. gold futures since the start of the coronavirus outbreak is pushing investors wanting exposure to the metal towards gold-backed exchange traded funds (ETFs), industry data shows.

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The Bank of Japan is likely to maintain this month its projection that the economy will gradually recover from the damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic in the latter half of this year, sources said.

Gold-backed exchange traded funds (ETFs) added 623 tonnes of the metal worth $34 billion to their stockpile from January to May, exceeding in five months every full-year increase on record, the World Gold Council said on Thursday.

The U.S. central bank now has a stake in the fortunes of a broad swath of corporate America after buying about $1.3 billion of bond funds with debt issued by firms in all walks of the world's biggest economy, from Apple Inc to a clutch of companies in bankruptcy.