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Week Four: Round-up
WealthManagerWeb.com  |   News  |   Podcasts  |   Webinars December 23, 2009

New this week at WealthManagerWeb.com

Lawmakers Unable to Pass Estate Tax Reforms
  As of December 17th, the House and Senate have been unable to move forward on estate tax reform (or extension of the current law) to avoid the quagmire of the 2001 Tax Act's (EGTRRA) sunset provision… Read More
Risk Management and the Holiday Full House
  Before inviting people into their homes, there's a list of potential exposures clients should consider. A client's home will never be more vulnerable than it is during the holidays… Read More

Blog: Regulatory Reason

See Knut Rostad's newest blog post in Regulatory Reason, exploring the regulatory and compliance issues that affect wealth managers.

Knut Rostad

Partisanship on Steroids
Passage of the financial reform legislation in the House is historic and important. It may also be, unfortunately, short-lived in the current, toxic partisan environment… Read More


Also at WealthManagerWeb.com

New Bank of America CEO
  Bank of America has appointed Brian Moynihan to fill the CEO and president slots that Ken Lewis will leave on December 31 Read More
Fed's Rates Same; Training Wheels Come Off in 2010
  The Federal Reserve will leave its target Fed funds range at 0.0% to 0.25%. The Fed will also said it will begin to phase out some of the programs that helped add liquidity to the credit markets during the financial crisis Read More





All Select Sector SPDRs: Weekly Flows


Source: Select Sector SPDRs

Select Sector SPDRs summary for the week ended December 18:

The S&P 500 was down slightly, -0.36% for the week; up 22.06% year-to-date.

Assets in Sector SPDRs rose $659 million, up 2.28% for the week.

Shares of Sector SPDRs were up by 51,100,000 for the week, or 4.52% more shares.

Volume was "slow," with 777 million Sector SPDR shares trading during the week.

Energy (XLE), was the best sector for the week, up 1.66%. Consumer Staples (XLP), was the worst, down 1.89%.

Sector SPDRs went x-dividend on 12/18.

For more weekly net flows charts for Select Sector SPDRs please click here.

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