StateStreet Investor Confidence Index falls to 91.2 in May (26-Jun-2007)
State Street Global Markets, the investment research and trading arm of State Street Corporation has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index for May 2007.
StateStreet comments on Investor confidence index in May (26-Jun-2007)
State Street Global Markets has commented that the lines -it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...- from Charles Dicken’s -A Tale of Two Cities- could be retold as -A Tale of Two Economies given the dramatic way in which the fortunes of the US and Europe continue to diverge. The Conference Board had announced that the US leading index is 0.7% below its April 2006 level. By contrast, the German ZEW Center announced its index of economic sentiment hit an 11-month high of 24, beating expectations.
State Street re-brands its Exchange Traded Funds (18-May-2007)
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation has incorporated its ASX-listed streetTRACKS series of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), under State Street’s new global ETF umbrella brand –SPDRs.