Exchanges
Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced on 29 June the launch of the PIMCO commodity real return DJ-AIGCI Trakr product, the eleventh in a series of non-traditional futures products developed jointly with Merrill Lynch. In a special opening procedure concluded on 28 June, nearly 17m contracts were traded. The exchange said that the contracts had been "designed to provide investors with an effective way to gain exposure to the Dow Jones/AIG Commodity Index".
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has been added to the Russell 1,000 Index following the annual reconstitution of the index, as announced on 3 July by Russell Investment Group. The reconstituted index was set to be effective...