CHICAGO, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- National Stock Exchange(SM) (NSX(R)) today announced that U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) assets reached $609 billion at the end of April 2008, an increase of 27 percent over $478 billion at April 2007 month-end.
ETF net cash inflow for the month of April 2008 totaled $36 million and notional trading volume during April 2008 totaled $1.6 trillion. The current number of U.S. listed ETFs has increased 49 percent to 740 compared to April 2007 when 496 ETFs were trading. In addition, there are currently 33 issuers of ETFs/ETNs compared with 18 issuers at the same time last year.
This data is included in NSX's April 2008 Month-End ETF/ETN Data Report released today. NSX began publishing Data Reports with the release of the June 2007 Report. These Data Reports are published following the end of each calendar month.
The NSX monthly statistics include shares of open-end exchange-traded products, encompassing listed shares of investment companies, grantor trusts, ETNs and commodity pools.
NSX's full report provides ETF data on Assets Under Management (AUM), Net Cash Flow and Notional Volume, broken out by Issuer, by Category, and the Top 10 ETFs by Size. To view this report go to: http://www.nsx.com/marketdata_monthly_etf.html.
In addition, NSX publishes a product-by-product breakdown of the 740 ETFs on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/marketdata_monthly_etf2.html.
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