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CPMKTSsm Press Releases
- August 1, 2008 - Only Modest Readjustments for U.S. Capital Markets
After several months of modest to significant fluctuations, the traditional investment grade U.S. capital markets hardly budged in July. A small loss among equities just barely overcame gains among short term bond and cash securities and in the long term U.S. bond markets. The traditional investment grade U.S. capital markets ended July down only 0.12% to $31.99 trillion.
- July 1, 2008 - Equity Dive Devastates U.S. Capital Markets
The U.S. equity markets witnessed the largest one month decrease in market capitalization in over 7 years. Slight gains in short term securities and modest gains in the longer term U.S. bond markets were no match for the widespread losses among equities. The U.S investment grade capital markets ended June with a 3.54% drop to $32.0 trillion.
- June 2, 2008 - Modest Growth Fueled by Bonds and Equities
Modest gains in bonds and equities kept the investment grade U.S. capital markets growing for a second straight month. The only down point was a trickle of money out of liquidity securities. The investment grade U.S. capital markets grew 0.92% in May to $33.2 trillion.
- May 1, 2008 - Equities End Down Streak in Dramatic Fashion
After five straight down months equities rebounded with their best month in 5 years. Liquidity was down some, the bonds were up by slightly more, but both changes paled in comparison to the growth of equities. The investment grade U.S. capital markets grew a robust 3.17% in April to $32.9 trillion.
- April 1, 2008 - Stocks Down Record-tying Fifth Consecutive Month
A fifth straight down month for equities matches the longest losing streak since 1980. Despite cash having another very strong month and bonds slightly up, the investment grade U.S. capital markets had their third straight losing month ending March at $31.9 trillion on a loss of 0.95%.
- March 3, 2008 - Equities Continue Losing Streak as T-Bills Reach New Records
The equity markets marked a fourth loosing month by dropping 1.61% to $15.6 trillion, now down to 48.34% of the investment grade capital markets. Significant gains in the liquidity markets and basically flat bond markets could not offset a downturn in equity markets resulting in a second down month for the total US investment grade capital markets which ended February valued at $32.2 trillion.
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CPMKTSsm in the News
- February 29, 2008 - IndexUniverse: The Long Road: Mother Of All Indexes
As a finance student at the University of Chicago exploring modern portfolio theory, Warren Schmalenberger wondered why current indexes didn't cover the entire efficient frontier. As years went by, he built some "baby models" seeking to track all U.S. stocks and fixed-income in a single benchmark. "In order to do this, I quickly realized that we'd have to download an immense amount of data from multiple sources," said Schmalenberger, now chief executive of Houston-based Dorchester Capital Management Co.
- February 12, 2008: The American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) today announced that it has launched trading in three new exchange traded funds (ETFs) from Claymore Securities, Inc.
The Claymore U.S. Capital Markets Bond ETF (UBD), the Claymore U.S. Capital Markets Micro-Term Fixed Income ETF (ULQ) and the Claymore U.S.-1 - The Capital Markets Index ETF (UEM). These three new ETFs bring the total number of ETFs listed on the Amex to 388.
- February 12, 2008 - IndexUniverse: New ETF Tracks Total Market for Stocks & Bonds
The move to slice and dice the market is getting a new challenge. On Tuesday, three new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are set to launch, each taking the total markets concept a step further.
- September 18, 2006 - MarketWatch: CPMKTS Pursues ETF
Meeting investors' needs for diversification, CPMKTS counters trends toward more specialized exchange traded funds with plans for an ETF that reflects the entire capital market.
- September 12, 2006 - Journal of Indexes: CPMKTS Inventor Warren Schmalenberger Interviewed
The Journal of Indexes interviews Warren Schmalenberger as one of the top 15 innovators and establishment leaders in the index industry.
- June 2, 2006 - Houston Business Journal: Advanced Technology, Broader Picture
Founder and CEO Warren Schmalenberger explains how technological advances have allowed Dorchester to process market data at the volume and speed necessary to capture minute-by-minute capital markets activity -- and why this information is important for investors.
- May 3, 2006 - Bloomberg News: New index debut
CPMKTS is designed to more accurately track U.S. financial markets. "This is one-stop shopping diversification," said index founder Warren Schmalenberger. "You buy this, you've bought a very good representation of the investment-grade market."
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