Products April 7, 2011

Barclays Launches Research Tool for iPad

Barclays Capital has launched Barclays Capital Research for iPad, which provides the firm’s institutional clients with access to its research via iPad devices.
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Barclays Capital Research for iPad offers clients the ability to browse, search, filter, save and create alerts for their favorite publications.  

According to the company, key features include:  

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  • Dashboard: Aggregates information in real time, displaying featured articles alongside alerts
  • Research: Provides at-a-glance access to the latest headlines
  • Search: Locates relevant content by “auto-suggesting” tickers, analysts or publications and multi-layered filtering
  • Filters: Ability to drill down within a single asset class, across multiple asset classes or within a search, to easily view specific research
  • Briefcase: Stores documents on the iPad for reading offline
  • Alerts: Messages on the Home screen update users on new content meeting their saved criteria
Institutional clients of Barclays Capital can access the app through the iTunes App Store. A Barclays Capital Live username and password are required to use the application.
The Markets April 7, 2011

Dow Jones Indexes, UBS Add Eight Commodity Indexes

Dow Jones Indexes and UBS Investment Bank announced they are adding eight commodity subindexes to the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index family.
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The subindexes measure an opportunity set excluding commodities such as agriculture, livestock or grains. Also launching as subindexes of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Indexes family are indexes that exclude the other major commodity sectors within the broad index: industrial metals, precious metals, soft commodities, petroleum products and agriculture/livestock.  

“These new subindexes measure commodity markets from the perspective of investors that want zero exposure to certain sectors,” said Michael A. Petronella, President, Dow Jones Indexes.  

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In addition to the eight new subindexes, the DJ-UBSCI series consists of the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index comprising 19 commodities; the eight previously existing subindexes; and 28 single commodity subindexes, including: aluminum, Brent crude, cocoa, coffee, copper, corn, cotton, crude oil, feeder cattle, gas oil, gold, heating oil, lead, lean hogs, live cattle, natural gas, nickel, orange juice, platinum, silver, soybeans, soybean meal, soybean oil, sugar, tin, unleaded gasoline, wheat and zinc.  

More information is at http://www.djindexes.com.

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