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  Dealers absorbing junk bonds as ETF demand drops

  By Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg  |  May 24, 2013

  Wall Street banks are expanding holdings of speculative-grade bonds as prices fall from record highs with investors retreating from exchange-traded funds that buy the debt.

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  Financial markets and the role political scandals play

  By Jeff Greenblatt  |  May 20, 2013

  Headlines recently have been dominated by political scandal. Here's how these revelations play out in the markets.

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  JPMorgan packages notes linked to bank loan ETF to tap demand

  By Kevin Dugan and Sridhar Natarajan  |  May 18, 2013

  JPMorgan Chase & Co. is capitalizing on growing investor appetite for risky assets by selling securities betting on corporate debt.

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  Gold ETF outflows drag on metal as holdings drop to 4-year low

  By Austin Kiddle  |  May 17, 2013

  As inflation is low and equity markets are rising, gold-backed ETP investors have been rotating out of gold. The SPDR Gold Trust holdings dropped to a four-year low to 1,041 metric tons yesterday.

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  BOX Exchange gets SEC OK to trade jumbo S&P 500 ETF options

  By Nina Mehta and Nikolaj Gammeltoft  |  May 6, 2013

  BOX Options Exchange will be the first to begin trading larger-size contracts on the most-active U.S. equity derivatives product.

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  Politics playing key role in financial market trends

  By Jeff Greenblatt  |  April 29, 2013

  Like market patterns, the political landscape and its impact on prices takes on different meanings as contexts shift.

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  Global markets driving skepticism, exuberance

  By John L. Caiazzo  |  April 28, 2013

  A level of skepticism pervades the global marketplace as economic and geopolitical events are largely set aside in favor of "irrational exuberance."

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  Lurching gold ETF veers from metal most in year amid selloff

  By Inyoung Hwang and Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg  |  April 17, 2013

  Ten days of pessimism flared into gold’s worst rout since 1980 this week, with selling so strong it knocked the world’s third-biggest exchange-traded fund further below its asset value than any time in a year.

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  Financial markets defy key technicals, sentiment with surge

  By Jeff Greenblatt  |  March 25, 2013

  Last week, sentiment turned nasty during a critical time window as Cyprus news broke, but this market just won't quit.

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  Fidelity relying on BlackRock’s IShares for push into ETFs

  By Alexis Leondis and Christopher Condon  |  March 13, 2013

  Fidelity, whose ETF assets went from zero to $1.4 trillion in 20 years, is increasing reliance on BlackRock Inc.’s iShares to compete.