NSX Posts Growth In January ETF/ETN Trading Volume

National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX(R)) announces that net cash inflows into U.S. listed Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange Traded Notes (ETN) totaled $2.1 billion for January 2009, an increase of approximately 74% over $1.2 billion posted during January 2008.

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National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX(R)) announces that net cash inflows into U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) totaled $2.1 billion for January 2009, an increase of approximately 74% over $1.2 billion posted during January 2008.

At the end of January 2009, the number of listed products totaled a record 861, compared to 678 listed products one year ago.

ETF/ETN notional trading volume reached $1.7 trillion for January 2009, representing 37% of all U.S. equity trading volume. ETF/ETN assets totaled approximately $505 billion in January 2009, a decrease of 14% from January 2008 when assets totaled $587 billion.

This data is included in NSX’s January 2009 Month-End ETF/ETN Data Report released today. NSX began publishing monthly Data Reports in 2007 and has become a key industry source for ETF/ETN data.

The NSX monthly statistics include shares of open-end exchange-traded products, encompassing U.S. listed shares of investment companies, grantor trusts, ETNs and commodity pools.

NSX’s full report provides ETF data on Assets Under Management, Net Cash Flow and Notional Volume, broken out by Issuer, by Category, and the Top 10 ETFs by Size. Click here to view the full report.

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