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PowerShares To Begin Trading The PowerShares DB 3x Italian Treasury Bond...
PowerShares will begin trading its new “PowerShares DB 3x Italian Treasury Bond Futures Exchange Traded Notes” (NYSE:ITLT) Wednesday, March 23, 2011. The PowerShares DB 3x Italian Treasury Bond Futures...
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Deutsche Bank and Invesco PowerShares Launch First Exchange Traded Notes...
Deutsche Bank and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, LLC today announced the launch of six Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) linked to the foreign sovereign bond futures. These will be the first ETNs...
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Country-Specific Bond ETNs Debut
PowerShares and Deutsche Bank have teamed up on a new suite of exchange-traded notes offering exposure to debt issued by the governments of Japan, Italy, and Germany, marking the first time U.S....
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ProShares Debuts Two Leveraged Bond ETFs
ProShares continued to build out its suite of leveraged and inverse bond ETF offerings, debuting two new products on Thursday that offer leveraged exposure to corporate bonds. Those new additions to a...
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Highlighting The PIIGS ETFs (CUT, EWI, ITLY, ITLT, EIRL, IHI, PXN, EWP)
While reports of jobless rates in the U.S. or the pace of inflation in China occasionally pop to the top of the headlines, the last several months have seen the spotlight focused on European markets as...
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Euro Unity Was Always An Illusion (ITLT, VGK, EZU, EWG, EPV)
Ron Rowland: Last week Mike Larson told you how Europe is an economic basket case. And today I want to talk about that a little more. Why? Because Europe is the epicenter of an earthquake that rocked...
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Italian Stocks Rejoice, But Bonds Waver As Berlusconi Nears The End (EWI,...
Scott Martin: After losing the majority in the Italian parliament, Silvio Berlusconi has signaled that he will in fact step down after the country passes an ambitious austerity budget. Stocks in Milan...
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Italian Bond Yields Cross 7% Pain Threshold (ITLY, ITLT, FXE, EWZ, VGK)
Scott Martin: Everything on the Italian yield curve is trading above 7% this morning, revealing traders’ anxiety about the future of the world’s third-biggest credit market, while clearinghouses try to...
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Some Context: How Bad Is It In Italy? (ITLY, ITLT)
Tim Seymour: We all know at this point that Italy is the third-largest bond market in the world, so the fact that its sovereign yield curve blew out yesterday has truly massive implications. But just...
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PowerShares Rolls Out Inverse, Leveraged Japanese Bond ETNs (JGBL, JGBT,...
Michael Johnston: PowerShares rolled out a pair of ETNs offering inverse exposure to Japanese government bonds, rounding out a suite of products delivering targeted exposure to one of the world’s...
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Italy Is Next On The Chopping Block; How To Profit From Italy’s Fall With...
Kevin McElroy: Italy (NYSEARCA: EWI) is next on the chopping block. I’ve been saying it for a long time, but the Euro is in big trouble. Long term, it will fail. In the intermediate term, we’ll see...
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Is The Anglo-Saxon Mafia Killing Italians? (ITLY, VGK, EEM, VWO, EUO)
Kevin McElroy: I’ll get right into it: many of my readers had some questions about my piece earlier this week on shorting Italian bonds to profit from the country’s debt crisis. The premise: Italian...
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Is The Best Performing Bond ETF Really In Europe? (ITLY, ITLT, TYD, TENZ, IEF)
Eric Dutram: Despite low rates and a now more dovish Federal Reserve, investors continue to pile into fixed income ETFs. In fact, over the trailing one year period, fixed income funds have seen...
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