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'Education Is Great, But Regulation Is Bigger': Experts From BlackRock, Grayscale, FTSE Russell, Galaxy Discuss Crypto's Future
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 12:36pm | 563At the Benzinga Future of Digital Assets event, a panel featuring industry heavyweights explored two essential themes shaping the future of digital currencies: the impact of regulation and the ongoing challenge of educating investors. Moderated by Erik LaPaglia, the discussion brought together...
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Women Trailblazers In Digital Finance To Share Insights At Benzinga's New York Event
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 10:15am | 778As the digital asset industry transforms, Benzinga’s Future of Digital Assets event in November, set in New York City, will gather some of the most influential voices in the field. This one-day event offers a thorough look at what's ahead for digital finance and will feature a distinguished...
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Grayscale Partners With FTSE Russell To Launch New Crypto Sector Indices
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 3:51pm | 644While awaiting a Spot Bitcoin ETF approval, Grayscale announced the FTSE Grayscale Crypto Sector Index Series, a novel way to look at the digital asset market and measure the performance of the rapidly growing crypto space. What Happened: Digital currency asset manager, Grayscale...
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FTSE Russell Launches First Multi-Asset Digital Asset Index Series
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 3:48pm | 489FTSE Russell announced on Tuesday the launch of its first multi-asset, market cap index series covering the digital asset market. What Happened: The newly launched FTSE Global Digital Asset Index series covers eight indices from micro-cap to large and is the second FTSE Russell index...
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WM Technology And Compass Diversified Both Join Russell 2000 And 3000 Indexes
Monday, June 27, 2022 - 10:55am | 403WM Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPS) has been added to the Russell 3000, Russell 2000 and Russell Microcap indexes and Compass Diversified (NYSE: CODI) has been added to the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes at the conclusion of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US...
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Leafly To Join Russell 3000 And Russell 2000 Index
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 9:48am | 322Leafly Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LFLY), is set to join the broad-market Russell 3000 Index at the conclusion of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US market opens on June 27, 2022, according to a preliminary list of additions posted earlier this month. Annual Russell...
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Cannabis Co. Clever Leaves Holdings To Join Russell Microcap Index: 'An Important Milestone'
Monday, June 14, 2021 - 12:11pm | 293The multinational cannabis company Clever Leaves Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CLVR) confirmed Monday it will become a member of the Russell Microcap Index, effective June 28 at the market opening in the U.S. When a stock joins the Russell Microcap Index it automatically becomes included in the...
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FTSE Russell To Drop 8 Chinese Companies From Some Indices, In Response To US Blacklist
Saturday, December 5, 2020 - 6:34pm | 314FTSE Russell will remove eight Chinese companies from some if its indexes, Financial Times has reported. What Happened: The U.K.-based index provider plans to remove the companies on Dec. 21 from its FTSE global equity indices and the FTSE China A Inclusion index. This is in response to a U.S....
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Fintech Focus For August 24, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020 - 12:13am | 2395Quote Of The Day: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson Fintech Movers: A group of Congressional lawmakers have sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that urges the U.S. tax agency to write policy that does not...
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What's Ailing Small-Caps? A Sector Differential Solves The Mystery
Thursday, August 22, 2019 - 7:32am | 546Small-cap stocks and exchange traded funds are lagging their large-cap counterparts this. A comparison of the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE: IWM) and the large-cap iShares Russell 1000 ETF (NYSE: IWB) confirms as much. What's Happened Entering Wednesday, IWB was 17.2% year to date, outpacing...
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The Companies Set To Join The Russell Index July 1
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - 4:35pm | 278OncoCyte Corporation (NYSE: OCX) is set to join the Russell 2000, Russell 3000 and Russell Microcap Indexes July 1. The Russell 3000 Index is a capitalization-weighted stock market index maintained by FTSE Russell that seeks to benchmark the entire U.S stock market. The following ...
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Survey Says Global Adoption Of Smart Beta ETFs Reaches New High
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - 3:22pm | 571A new survey published by FTSE Russell, one of the largest providers of indexes for use by issuers of exchange traded funds, indicates adoption of smart beta ETFs, those funds using weighting schemes beyond market capitalization, is reaching new heights. The index provider's sixth annual survey...
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Feelin' Free Cash Flow With This ETF
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 3:10pm | 468A company's ability to generate free cash flow and maintain a solid balance sheets are important considerations in the stock selection process. The Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (CBOE: COWZ) is one exchange traded fund that puts the benefits of prodigious cash flow generation to work for investors...
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No Surprise: FAANG's A Big Deal For Growth Indexes, ETFs
Monday, August 13, 2018 - 1:14pm | 553July was the first month in some time that large-cap value stocks outperformed their growth rivals. Growth fans may be apt to say some company-specific issues plagued growth stocks last month. But with a small number of stocks accounting for significant portions of widely followed growth indexes,...
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Russell 1000 ETFs To Increase In Health Care, Tech Exposure
Friday, June 22, 2018 - 12:41pm | 535Index provider FTSE Russell finalizes its annual index reconstitution today, making for brisk trading activity as well as some changes for some well-known exchange traded funds. Each year on the final Friday of June, “stocks are added or deleted to the Russell 1000 large cap and Russell 2000...