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Global stocks plunge as COVID-19 fear accelerates, oil crashes

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... Arabia and Russia will persist... we will likely be looking at low oil prices for the rest of 2020." Meanwhile in the UK, the FTSE 100 suffered its biggest intraday fall since 2008, with benchmark bond yields dropping below zero for the first time. Germany's ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... London to Rio and ol' London town dropping: The S&P/ASX 200 index dropped by 2.3%; the Euro Stoxx-50 index lost 4%; the FTSE-100 index went down by 3.3%; and the S&P 500 index lost 3.4%. Yes Virginia, you'll fear for your health - mortal and ...

Global index creates new ESG role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
FTSE Russell has announced a new head of sustainable investment, Asia Pacific, in a newly-created role. Helena Fung will take on the role, being responsible for FTSE Russell's sustainable investment indexes and data services across the Asia Pacific ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... rate is currently at the same level as Mark found it (notwithstanding the sharp depreciation post-Brexit referendum); the FTSE-100 index has gained by 18.4% since July 2013 to date; and, the unemployment rate has dropped from 7.7% (June 2013) to a 45-year ...

SSGA to scrutinise ASX 100 directors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... voting. "Beginning this proxy season, we will take appropriate voting action against board members at companies in the S&P 500, FTSE 350, ASX 100, TOPIX 100, DAX 30, and CAC 40 indices that are laggards based on their R-Factor scores and that cannot ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... Japan's Nikkei falling 2%. Meanwhile in Europe, the composite European Stoxx 600 fell 1.7% at the open, while London's FTSE 100 dropped 1.6%, and Germany's Dax suffered a 1.7% blow. US benchmarks fell sharply too, with the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Most traded stocks, ETFs of 2019 revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... proved the most popular amongst Saxo clients. That was followed by the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF and Vanguard FTSE Emergind Markets Shares ETF. In fourth place, iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and rounding out the top five was the SPDR S&P ...

VanEck changes ETF portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... portfolios have been changed, removing the SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate Fund. This has been replaced with the VanEck Vectors FTSE International Property (Hedged) ETF (ASX: REIT). "REIT tracks the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed ex Australia Rental Index ...

ETFS Capital backs indexing startup

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... that are more nimble that the traditional ones. It was set up by Gareth Parks, who was one of the four founding staff of FTSE and Tobias Sproehnle who was previously Thomson Reuters Benchmarks' chief executive. Its services include index strategy and ...

Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... - taking the economy's annual growth rate down from 1.8% in the first quarter to a seven-year low of 1.2%. While the FTSE-100 index continues to produce a positive return (7.7%) this year-to-date - supported by the weak currency - it has fallen by ...