LONDON — August 10, 2015 — ETFs and ETPs listed in the United States are gathering net new assets 8% percent faster than in prior years according to ETFGI. A record level of US$125.1 billion in net new assets (NNA) was gathered by ETFs and ETPs listed in the United States in the first seven months of 2015, surpassing the prior record of US$115.9 billion gathered in the same period in 2013. At the end of July 2015, the US ETF/ETP industry had 1,764 ETFs/ETPs, Read more [...]

TODAY Loyal Order of Moose Day Admission: $4; parking $2 7 a.m. - Gate opens 7 a.m.-4 p.m. - Entry time for Youth and Open Dairy 8 a.m. - Model Horse Show registration 8-10 a.m. - Registration for PA Preferred Chocolate Baking Contest, Blue Ribbon Apple Pie Contest, and Angel Food Cake Contest, Open Show exhibit building 10 a.m.-10 p.m. - Commercial and exhibit buildings open 10 a.m. - 4-H and FFA Goat Show 10 a.m. - Model Horse Show, exhibit building 11 a.m. - Judging of baking contests Read more [...]

They started the official one-year countdown clock on Aug. 5 — 365 days/8,760 hours/525,000 minutes/31,536,000 seconds until the Games of the XXXI Olympiad begin in Rio de Janeiro next summer. Not that the city ever has been off the clock since the Lords of the Rings in 2009 chose the global capital of sun, surf, sand, and samba as their 2016 host in a landslide ahead of Madrid.After five years of dawdling and dithering and a frantic year of catch-up, the Olympic Read more [...]

The recent bird deaths at a Syncrude oilsands facility in northern Alberta along with last month's Nexen Energy pipeline spill — one of the biggest in the province's history — show the need for better oversight, a local First Nation says. Alberta pipelines: 6 major oil spills in recent history "In less than one month, we have seen two major events that clearly demonstrate that something is seriously wrong," said Allan Adam, chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), Read more [...]