NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) today announced that WisdomTree Investments listed 10 new International Sector exchange traded funds on the NYSE. As the first ETFs to offer pure international sector exposure in a fundamentally-weighted dividend index, the WisdomTree sector ETFs focus on specific industry sectors and consist of only international equity securities.
Nokia's third quarter 2006 net sales increased 20% to EUR 10.1 billion, compared with EUR 8.4 billion in the third quarter 2005. At constant currency, group net sales would have increased 18%.
With the Chinese government’s emphasis on the application of green technologies, manufacturing industries are realizing the need for energy-efficient electric drives. This is significantly enhancing the growth of the electric drives market in China.
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ®: NDAQ) today announced its consolidated market performance statistics for the NASDAQ Market Center, INET and Brut trading platforms for the month of September.
The New York Stock Exchange today released its weekly program-trading data submitted by its member firms. The report includes trading in all markets as reported to the NYSE for Oct. 2-6.
According Research and Markets in the first half of 2005, the Chinese farm chemicals market maintained the growth levels of 2004. July saw the beginning of a gradual decline but was still better than the same period in 2004.
According the Research and Markets In 2005 the Chinese Dairy Industry maintained a strong growth rate and its operations improved compared with 2004. Dairy cattle inventory and raw milk production both also increased over 20%.
Mortgage rates rose this week following investors' concerns of inflation. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose this week to 6.42 percent, up from 6.31 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the 30-year fixed rate mortgages had an average of 0.32 discount and origination points.
The Conference Board announced today that the leading index for the U.K increased 0.2 percent, and the coincident index increased 0.1 percent in August.
Varied economic indicators produced by The Conference Board are now pointing to slow growth ahead in the U.S., but not a recession, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board, the global research and business membership organization.
