NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) today announced that WisdomTree Investments listed 10 new International Sector exchange traded funds on the NYSE. As the first ETFs to offer pure international sector exposure in a fundamentally-weighted dividend index, the WisdomTree sector ETFs focus on specific industry sectors and consist of only international equity securities.
“The NYSE is proud to add these new WisdomTree funds to our growing family of NYSE listed ETFs,” said Catherine R. Kinney, NYSE Group President and co-COO. “Our partnership with WisdomTree expands upon our commitment to building the ETF marketplace. We are proud to continue to add more groundbreaking WisdomTree products to our roster of exchange traded funds.”
WisdomTree International Sector ETFs:
With the addition of these listings, the NYSE Group will have 116 primary ETF listings. Combined with ETFs trading on an unlisted trading privilege basis (UTP), the NYSE Group handled 44% of all ETF shares traded in the U.S. market, the largest single exchange liquidity pool for ETF trading through third-quarter 2006.