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New Treasury ProShares Now Trading: UST, UBT

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:30:21 -0500

Two new leveraged ProShares ETFs came on the market as of Thursday, 1/21/2010. ProShares Ultra 20+ Year Treasury (UBT) and ProShares Ultra 7-10 Year Treasury (UST) both offer 200% leverage to the daily performance of their underlying long-term and intermediate-term Treasury bond indexes.

ProShares already offered three leveraged and unleveraged ETFs tracking Treasury bonds on an inverse basis. Proshares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TBT) has been particularly successful, attracting $4.6 billion in less than two years according to the ProShares news release.

UBT and UST are the firm’s first long-side Treasury offerings. The closest competitors are the 3X leveraged Treasury ETFs from Direxion…

ProShares Launches Ultra Treasury ETFs (UBT, UST)

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:41:26 -0500

ProShares made an addition to its line of leveraged fixed income products on Thursday, launching the Ultra 7-10 Year Treasury (UST) and Ultra 20+ Year Treasury (UBT). UST seeks daily investment results that correspond to 200% of the daily performance of the Barclays Capital 7-10 Year U.S. Treasury Index, while UBT will seek to deliver [...]

ProShares Launches Ultra Treasury ETFs (UBT, UST)

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:41:26 -0500

ProShares Launches Two Leveraged U.S. Treasury ETFs

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:59:00 -0500

Buy These Three Dividend Stocks, Cramer Says (WM, MO, MMM)

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:26:41 -0500

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Hershey, Target, housing data in focus

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:00 -0500

U.S. stock-market futures edge lower as data show a sharp drop in U.S. housing starts in October and a 0.3% rise in consumer prices.

General Motors’ Loss Subsides

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:20:12 -0500

General Motors (hereafter, GM) — presently, Motors Liquidation Company (MTLQQ) — posted a narrower loss in the third quarter (Jul 10 – Sep 30) compared with the results depicted by “Old GM” in the first quarter, before the company was transformed by a stay in Chapter 11. GM, which began operations as a new company on [...]

General Motors’ Loss Subsides

Thursday's biggest gaining and declining stocks

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:41:00 -0400

Among the stocks expected to see active trading Thursday are the European food, drink and tobacco firms as well as ASML, Comcast, Corning, General Mills, Menâ??s Wearhouse, Monsanto, Smith & Wesson, TI, Time Warner Cable and Williams Cos.

KB Home Names Silcock Finance Chief

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:28:00 -0400

KB Home Names Silcock Finance Chief