NYSE Euronext (NYX) today announced the launch of 11 new Barclays iPath® Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) on NYSE Arca, including the first ETN linked to carbon. ETFs and ETNs listed on NYSE Arca - an industry leader in ETF and ETN listings and trading - represent 56% of ETF and ETN assets under management in the U.S., nearly $609 billion, the most of any exchange.
Linked to the Barclays Capital Global Carbon Index Total ReturnTM, the iPath® Global Carbon ETN (NYSE Arca: GRN) is the first ETN designed to provide investors with exposure to the global price of carbon.
The following ten ETNs are designed to offer exposure to sub-indices of the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Total ReturnSM.
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Tin Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: JJT)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Sugar Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: SGG)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Softs Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: JJS)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Precious Metals Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: JJP)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Platinum ETN Total Return Sub-IndexSM (NYSE Arca: PGM)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Lead ETN Total Return Sub-IndexSM (NYSE Arca: LD)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Cotton Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: BAL)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Coffee Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: JO)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Cocoa Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: NIB)
iPath® Dow Jones-AIG Aluminum Total Return Sub-IndexSM ETN (NYSE Arca: JJU)
As the first fully electronic platform to utilize designated liquidity providers, NYSE Arca sets the national best bid and offer nearly 85% of the time, leading all U.S. exchanges. NYSE Arca remains an established leader in the ETF and ETN market place offering investors some of the industry’s fastest and most innovative trading tools to access liquidity. Including today’s listings, NYSE Arca has 274 ETF primary and 76 ETN listings and trades all other eligible ETFs on a UTP basis. NYSE Euronext remains the global exchange of choice for Exchange-Traded Products with a total of 674 primary listings.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) operates the world’s leading and most liquid exchange group, and seeks to provide the highest levels of quality, customer choice and innovation. Its family of exchanges, located in six countries, includes the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest cash equities market; Euronext, the Eurozone's largest cash equities market; Liffe, Europe's leading derivatives exchange by value of trading; and NYSE Arca Options, one of the fastest growing U.S. options trading platforms. NYSE Euronext offers a diverse array of financial products and services for issuers, investors and financial institutions in cash equities, options and derivatives, ETFs, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions. NYSE Euronext's nearly 4,000 listed companies represent a combined $28.5 / 18.4€ trillion (as of May 31, 2008), in total global market capitalization more than four times that of any other exchange group. NYSE Euronext's equity exchanges transact an average daily trading value of approximately 157.5 /103.4 billion (as of May 31, 2008), which represents more than one-third of the world's cash equities trading. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 index and the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index. For more information, please visit www.nyx.com.
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Contacts:
Stephanie Scotto, 212-656-4896
sscotto@nyx.com
