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Stocks fell for the first month in six in October as earnings disappointments from technology companies and rising bond yields drove investors to take profits from this year’s rally.

The ETF was launched in December 2022 and follows a unique patents-based stock selection methodology targeting innovators that are creating and deploying the Metaverse.

STOXX uses a lifecycle framework to identify investable themes based on their conceptual and business evolution. Depending on the point in that cycle, either patents and/or revenues may provide the best signal to select the key contributors and main beneficiaries of that theme.

Stocks gyrated in August, with benchmarks ending in positive territory for the month, as concern about a US economic slowdown was outweighed by optimism that interest rates will be cut this month. The STOXX World AC index rose 2.6% last month when measured in US dollars and including dividends, taking its 2024 gain to 16.4%. The STOXX Global 1800 index added 2.8% in the month.

A year ago, Invesco switched the underlying strategies for three US-listed ETFs that target technology themes to three STOXX indices. Since then, the ETFs have shown very strong performance as investors expect companies exposed to those themes to benefit from increasing demand in new technologies.

Stocks gyrated in August, with benchmarks ending in positive territory for the month, as concern about a US economic slowdown was outweighed by optimism that interest rates will be cut this month. The STOXX World AC index rose 2.6% last month when measured in US dollars and including dividends, taking its 2024 gain to 16.4%. The STOXX Global 1800 index added 2.8% in the month.

Stocks rose in July amid expectations that the Federal Reserve is getting close to its first interest-rate cut since 2020. The STOXX World AC index rose 1.7% last month when measured in US dollars and including dividends, taking its 2024 gain to 13.4%. The STOXX Global 1800 index added 1.9% in the month.

Eurex’s Mezhgan Qabool explains how demand to invest in chipmakers drove the launch of the STOXX Semiconductor 30 index futures in March, and what the new product offers for portfolios.

Eight STOXX Thematic indices underlying ETFs in Europe had their annual rebalancing in June, with six of them seeing updates to the business sectors associated with the targeted theme. The ‘purity’ ratio, or theme-related revenue, remains above 80%.

US stocks rose in June as investors weighed the prospects for interest-rate cuts amid slowing inflation. European shares fell as results from the European Parliamentary elections increased political risk.

Nvidia’s formidable stock performance has lifted the company atop many indices. Thematic strategies can offer a more nuanced, and larger, exposure to the chipmaker’s shares.

STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX GmbH group of companies and a leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions to global institutional investors, has licensed the STOXX Digital Asset Blue Chip Index to the Zurich-based Swiss private bank, Maerki Baumann & Co. Ltd. The index will serve as an underlying for the “ARCHIP Crypto Certificate” and “Crypto Focus Module” that are actively managed by the private bank.