Posts for Ticker ‘IPK’

State Street International Technology ETF Launch (STT, IPK)

State_street_ssga_logo_7State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) has announced that its State Street Global Advisors unit is launching 10 new SPDR exchange-traded funds, which are supposed to begin trading on the American Stock Exchange today.

SPDR(R) S&P(R) International Technology Sector ETF (AMEX: IPK)
      

  • This index includes more than 650 non-US technology companies with market caps of $100 million or more.

These ETF’s are benchmarked to a series of the S&P(R) World ex-U.S. Broad Market Indices, which are market cap weighted with only non-US holdings.  The expense ratio on each of these ten ETF’s is listed as 0.50%.

Jon C. Ogg
July 22, 2008