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SPACs

SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, are sometimes referred to as "blank-check companies." That's because SPACs raise money in an initial public offering, then put it in a trust earning interest. The SPAC's sponsors search for an operating company to merge with and negotiate a deal. If they fail to find a target within a set period, typically two years, they return the money to investors. 
Special purpose acquisition company transactions may be considered as a capital-raising alternative to initial public offerings (IPO) or other financing activities. SPAC transactions result in the private operating company involved becoming a public company. 
== New-found Popularity ==
Although SPACs have been used for decades as alternative investment vehicles, they came into vogue in 2020 as seasoned investors and management teams turned to SPACs to mitigate the increased market volatility risk of traditional IPOs. The year 2020 was a record-breaking one for SPAC IPOs, with the surge driven by the influx of high-profile investors and management teams entering the SPAC space, coupled with an abundance of uninvested capital that had largely sat out the first half of 2020.
SPACs accounted for about half the money raised on U.S. exchanges in 2020, after being just a fraction in previous years, according to a Financial Times report on November 1, 2020. 
The FT said companies had raised $66 billion through listings on the New York Stock Exchange by November 2020, compared with $61 billion on Nasdaq, with nearly two-thirds of the proceeds raised on the NYSE coming from SPACs. The two exchanges have attracted a similar number of SPACs, but the NYSE has raised twice as much as Nasdaq by landing the larger deals.
According to research from Bloomberg Intelligence, SPAC IPOs raised about $140 billion from first-quarter 2020 into first-quarter 2021, and the investment class is forecast to top $53 trillion by 2025. However, some analysts have questioned whether SPACs listings are appropriate for certain sectors. Investors in environmental, social and governance (ESG) businesses, for example, want to verify their environmental and social impact but unless a SPAC's planned ESG-related acquisition is identified upfront, that kind of evaluation is not possible. 
Chicago-based SPAC Research estimated U.S. SPACs raised some $89.7 billon in capital in 2021 by March of that year, up from $83.4 billion in 2020. 
"Howard Lutnick, the CEO of brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald LP and Donald Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, raised a $100 million blank check in August and then, days before the elections, filed for what would be a 10th SPAC; Michael Klein pooled $287.5 million in May; and Harry Sloan and Eli Baker’s Eagle Equity Partners debuted its ninth SPAC in late October." 
== References ==
SPA ETF

SPA ETFs is a specialist provider of Exchange Traded Funds. SPA's ETFs use the performance of stock indices created by MarketGrader, an independent research provider used by some of the world's leading investment houses.
SPA recently began listing ETFs on the American Stock Exchange. They are designed to outperform the standard US market indices (S&P, Russell, etc…) during appreciating markets, and to minimize downside risk during declining markets. 
== History ==
* On 17 September, 2008 SPA ETF announced the signing of an agreement with NYSE Euronext and Portuguese bank Caixa - Banco de Investimento(CaixaBI), to list and distribute the first ever ETF in Portugal.
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
SPDR Barclays Capital Long Term Credit Bond ETF

The SPDR Barclays Capital Long Term Credit Bond ETF measures the short term fixed rate, investment grade debt issued by foreign governments of investment grade countries. It uses a strategy based on the price and yield performance of the Barclays Capital 1-3 Year Global Treasury ex-US Capped Index. It was available for trading at NYSE Euronext on March 11, 2009. 
== References ==
Category:S&P
Category:ETFs
Category:Bonds
SPDR DJ Wilshire Total Market ETF

The SPDR DJ Wilshire Total Market ETF, managed by State Street Global Advisors, is an exchange-traded fund that seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index SM (ticker: DWCFT). The fund's approach is designed to provide portfolios with low portfolio turnover, accurate tracking, and lower costs. 
The fund trades on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX). 
== References ==
Category:S&P
Category:ETFs
SPDR Gold Shares

The SPDR Gold Trust, which is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), issues SPDR Gold Shares that represent a fractional, undivided interest in gold bullion held by the SPDR Gold Trust. 
It was launched in response to increasing interest in gold as an investment and portfolio diversification tool. The introduction of CBOE Options on SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) (and simultaneously at other U.S. options exchanges) in June 2008 provided investors with another tool for portfolio and risk management.
In its first month of trading, June 2008, CBOE claimed 50 percent of the market for GLD options of all U.S. exchanges. Total volume for CBOE GLD options in the 20 business days in June reached just less than 250,000 contracts of the roughly 477,000 GLD contracts traded in the U.S. On July 11, 2008, CBOE GLD volume exceeded 92,000 contracts, a record in just a six-week period.
== Key Facts about SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) ==
*Inception Date: The GLD ETF was launched on November 12, 2004 (originally with the name streetTRACKS® Gold Trust). 
*Year-end Prices for the GLD ETF were 51.58 in 2005, 63.21 in 2006, and 82.46 in 2007.
 
*Asset Size: In April 2008 the GLD ETF was the sixth largest US-based ETF, with more than $16 billion in assets.
== CBOE Options on GLD Specifications ==
*Underlying: 100 shares of SPDR Gold Shares 
 
*Strike Price Intervals: Minimum of one-point increments 
 
*Strike (Exercise) Prices: In-, at- and out-of-the-money strike prices are initially listed. New series generally will be added when the underlying shares trade through the highest or lowest strike price available 
*Expiration Date: Saturday immediately following the third Friday of the expiration month 
*Expiration Months: Generally, two near-term months and two months from the March quarterly cycle (March, June, September and December) 
*Last Trading Day: Trading in GLD options ordinarily ceases at the close on the business day (usually a Friday) preceding the expiration date 
 
*Exercise Style: American exercise 
*Settlement of Option Exercise: Physical Delivery. Exercise notices properly tendered on any business day will result in delivery of GLD Shares on the third business day following exercise 
*Margin: Uncovered writers must deposit 100% of the options proceeds plus 15% of the aggregate contract value (current ETF price multiplied by $100) minus the amount by which the option is out-of-the-money, if any. Minimum margin is 100% of the option proceeds plus 10% of the aggregate contract value. Long puts or calls must be paid in full
 
*Trading Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. (Chicago time)
== Also See ==
CBOE GLD Delayed Quotes
Price Charts/Introductory Information
== References ==
Category:ETFs
Category:Metals
Category:Gold
SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF

Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPDRS, with symbol SPY), commonly referred to as "Spiders," is the world's first and largest exchange traded fund (ETF), in terms of assets under management. As of January 2013, it also was the most traded US-listed equity. 
SPY is listed on the New York Stock Exchange's Arca Exchange, and investors are able to trade the ETF on multiple platforms. The trustee of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust is State Street Bank and Trust Company, and its distributor is ALPS Distributors Incorporated.
Created to track the value of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, SPY was launched on the American Stock Exchange on January 29, 1993. The fund grew from $461.5 million assets under management in 1993 to more than $125 billion in January 2013, according to Index Universe, which tracks ETFs.
One SPDR unit is valued at about one-tenth of the value of the S&P 500. Dividends are distributed quarterly, and are based on the accumulated stock dividends held in trust, less any expenses of the trust. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust allocates almost all of its funds into common stocks, which are included in the S&P 500 Index.
The creation of SPY is credited to Nate Most, attorney Kathleen Moriarty and Jim Ross who worked with the team from State Street Global Advisors and Cliff Weber and Steven Bloom from AMEX, among others. The product was the first of its kind, in that no one previously had tried to build a physically backed vehicle that could be traded in real time, closely following the value of the index.
The SPY ETF carries a fee of 0.095%, which is roughly triple the cost of investing in three of its largest competitors.
== Scope of Products ==
 
There are scores of SPDR ETFs of different stripes managed by SSgA. State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) lists more than 76 ETFs worldwide, with SPDRS being the dominant leader in that group. 
Other SPDRs track domestic and international stock indexes (such as Dow Jones Wilshire indexes) or particular industry groups or asset classes. More specifically, offerings can be viewed by market cap, style, sector/industry, specialty (e.g., real estate), international focus, region, and fixed income (as well as pricing and performance). 
The SPDR Trust Series 1, known as the Spiders, is structured as a unit investment trust, but Select Sector SPDRs that track various sector indexes by carving up the S&P 500 Index into separate industry groups are open-ended funds. 
In May of 2013, the Boston Options Exchange (BOX) was approved by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to trade a jumbo version of the SPDR S&P 500 Exchange Trade Fund ("Jumbo SPY Options"). "Jumbo SPY Options are a new options contract overlying 1,000 SPY ETF shares per contract, as compared to 100 shares per contract for standard options." Trading on Jumbo SPY is expected to begin on May 10, 2013.
== Where Are SPYDRs Traded ==
Spiders were first listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol SPY and are now traded only on NYSEArca. Options on SPDRs are offered for trading on several U.S. options exchanges.
== Resources ==
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== References ==
 
Category:S&P
SPIKES Volatility Index

The SPIKES volatility index measures the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), one of the most actively traded securities in the world. Additionally, SPIKES is equipped with proprietary design features such as "price-dragging" to help stabilize the index during times of market stress. It was created by T3 Index, a financial indexing firm.
In February 2019, MIAX Options Exchange and T3 Index launched options on the SPIKES Volatility Index on MIAX Options.
In September 2019 the company partnered with the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) to list and clear futures on the SPIKES Volatility Index. After the contract's first week of trading, trading was halted on November 29, 2019, except for liquidation of open positions. In a notice posted on the MGEX website, the exchange said the closure "results from conversations the Exchange has had with both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission." 
The SPIKES Volatility Index is calculated using live prices on options linked to SPY and represents the market’s expectation of price movements in SPY over the next 30 days. SPY sees more than $32.5 billion in daily notional value as of early 2018. A by-product of SPY’s popularity is a highly liquid market for its associated options, which account for nearly half of the $110 billion in notional value traded per day across all US equity options.
== References ==
Category:Volatility Indexes
Category:SPIKES
Category:Miax
SPRE / Small precious Metals

Small Precious Metals combines and weights the three most popular metals by global production, US consumption, and trade volume to give you one comprehensive perspective. It is offered by The Small Exchange.
SPRE / Small Precious Metals	SPRE / Small Precious Metals 	SPRE / Small Precious Metals 	SPRE / Small Precious Metals
Symbol 	SPRE 	SPRE 	SPRE
Intraday Limits 	7% and 13% 	7% and 13% 	7% and 13%
Daily Limit 	20% 	20% 	20%
Initial Margin 	$550.00 	$550.00 	$550.00
Maintenance Margin 	$500.00 	$500.00 	$500.00
Trading Hours 	Monday - Friday from 7am-4pm CT 	Monday - Friday from 7am-4pm CT 	Monday - Friday from 7am-4pm CT
Termination 	The contract expires at 3pm CT on the 3rd Friday of the contract month. If the 3rd Friday is a market holiday, expiration is on the Thursday prior to the Friday holiday.	The contract expires at 3pm CT on the 3rd Friday of the contract month. If the 3rd Friday is a market holiday, expiration is on the Thursday prior to the Friday holiday.	The contract expires at 3pm CT on the 3rd Friday of the contract month. If the 3rd Friday is a market holiday, expiration is on the Thursday prior to the Friday holiday.
Size 	$7,200 	$7,200 	$7,200
Contract Size 	100x current price 	100x current price 	100x current price
Tick Size \ Dollar per Tick 	$0.01 tick = $1.00 per tick 	$0.01 tick = $1.00 per tick 	$0.01 tick = $1.00 per tick
Available Contracts 	All Smalls are available for current and following month 	All Smalls are available for current and following month 	All Smalls are available for current and following month
Settlement 	Cash-settled 	Cash-settled 	Cash-settled
== Notes ==
==References==
Category:Sponsored Pages
Category:Reserved Pages
Category:Futures Contracts
Category:Futures Data in Template
SPXpm

SPXpm is a fully-electronic version of the CBOE's flagship S&P 500 Index options (SPX), the most actively traded U.S. index option product. The options launched Oct. 4, 2011 on C2, CBOE Holdings' electronic options exchange, which began operating in September 2010. The product is identical in structure to the traditional SPX index option except that it has a "p.m" settlement. It received SEC approval (on a pilot basis) on Sept. 2, 2011. 
The contract has a 100 multiplier and is ten times larger than SPY (SPDR ETF) options. It is cash-settled and has European-style exercise, like SPX and most other index options.
On Nov. 29, 2012, CBOE Holdings announced it would transition its SPXpm product from the C2 Options Exchange to Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), where it will be traded on CBOE’s Hybrid Trading System. The transition will consolidate the company’s entire S&P 500 options product line on one exchange. The pm-settled SPX options (including SPXpm, SPX Weeklys and SPX Quarterlys) will trade under ticker "SPXPM" and the flagship SPX option, which is a.m.-settled, will continue to trade in open outcry under ticker "SPX."
Market makers in the contracts are charged 17 cents per contract while brokers and active traders deemed professionals pay 40 cents. These groups will also pay a 10-cent surcharge per contract to offset C2’s licensing fees for the index. 
== References ==
SS&C Technologies

SS&C Technologies, founded in 1986, is a provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software for the global financial services industry. 
SS&C, a publicly traded company, says it serves about 11,000 financial services organizations around the world ranging from fund administration, insurance, pension funds, asset and wealth management accounting and operations. 
The company has grown largely through acquisitions aimed at expanding its products and services. Since 1995, the company has acquired 46 businesses. It has more than 8,200 employees with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
 
== Background ==
The firm was founded in 1986 by William C. Stone, who still serves as CEO and chairman.
In 1996, the company went public and in November 2005, it was acquired by entities affiliated with The Carlyle Group and taken private.
On March 31, 2010, SS&C Technologies went public again, listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. 
The company has grown dramatically through dozens of acquisitions. It closed a major deal in April 2018, acquiring DST Systems, a processing and servicing software company, for $5.4 billion, extending SS&G's products to the wealth management sector, including 40 Act Funds, also known as managed futures mutual funds. The combined companies create one of the largest compliance, regulatory, data & analytics, digital transformation and solutions firms in the industry. The company announced a public stock offering to pay for the purchase.
The company was also named as a bidder for Fidessa in April 2018, competing with an accepted offer from ION, which surpassed a bid from Temenos Group AG. It later declined to make a counter-offer for Fidessa.
== Products and Services ==
SS&C serves a wide swath of financial services sectors including: alternative investments, asset management, banking and lending, wealth management, insurance, property management and REIT accounting and administration.
The firm has software products and services including:
*Accounting
*Data Management
*Employee Benefits Administration
*Performance Measurement & Attribution
*Portfolio Management
*Reconciliation & Data Collection
*Risk & Compliance
*Trading & Settlement
*Training Solutions
== Key People ==
* William C. Stone, found, CEO and Chairman
== References ==
STIX / Small Technology 60

Small Technology 60 gives comprehensive access to the tech sector by tracking the most active stocks from information, retail, media, and biotechnology. It is offered by The Small Exchange.
STIX\Small Technology 60 	STIX\Small Technology 60 	STIX\Small Technology 60 	STIX\Small Technology 60
Symbol 	STIX 	STIX 	STIX
Intraday Limits 	9% and 13% 	9% and 13% 	9% and 13%
Daily Limit 	20% 	20% 	20%
Initial Margin 	$550.00 	$550.00 	$550.00
Maintenance Margin 	$500.00 	$500.00 	$500.00
Trading Hours 	Monday - Friday from 7am-4pm CT 	Monday - Friday from 7am-4pm CT 	Monday - Friday from 7am-4pm CT
Termination 	The contract expires at 3pm CT on the 3rd Friday of the contract month. If the 3rd Friday is a market holiday, expiration is on the Thursday prior to the Friday holiday.	The contract expires at 3pm CT on the 3rd Friday of the contract month. If the 3rd Friday is a market holiday, expiration is on the Thursday prior to the Friday holiday.	The contract expires at 3pm CT on the 3rd Friday of the contract month. If the 3rd Friday is a market holiday, expiration is on the Thursday prior to the Friday holiday.
Size 	$6,900 	$6,900 	$6,900
Contract Size 	100x current price 	100x current price 	100x current price
Tick Size \ Dollar per Tick	$0.01 tick = $1.00 per tick 	$0.01 tick = $1.00 per tick 	$0.01 tick = $1.00 per tick
Available Contracts 	All Smalls are available for current and following month. 	All Smalls are available for current and following month. 	All Smalls are available for current and following month.
Settlement 	Cash-settled 	Cash-settled 	Cash-settled
== Notes ==
==References==
Category:Sponsored Pages
Category:Reserved Pages
Category:Futures Contracts
Category:Futures Data in Template
STO

STO is an acronym for "Security Token Offering," a term meant to rebrand ICO or Initial Coin Offering. The concept of a STO was popularized by Overstock's former CEO, Patrick Byrne.
STOs mimic traditional equity shares and may give investors some rights within the company. They replace traditional shares, but involve registering with regulators for the traditional initial public offering process. STOs may even include dividends and governance rights.
Tokens may be backed by equity, limited partnership shares or commodities.
==References==
 
Category:Securities
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Category:Digital Asset
STOXX Europe 600 Sector Indexes

As of January 8, 2008, Eurex lists futures and options on 18 STOXX Europe sectors. Although the underlying indexes are different, the contract specifications for all Stoxx Europe 600 Sector Index futures and options are the same.
The 18 STOXX Europe 600 Sector Indexes are:
*STOXX Europe 600 Automobiles & Parts Futures and Options
*STOXX Europe 600 Banks Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Basic Resources Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Chemicals Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Construction & Materials Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Financial Services Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Food & Beverage Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Health Care Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Industrial Goods & Services Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Insurance Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Media Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Oil & Gas Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Personal & Household Goods Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Retail Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Technology Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Telecommunications Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Travel & Leisure Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Utilities Futures and Options 
== Notes ==
STOXX Europe 600 Sectors Futures Home Page at Eurex:
http://www.eurexchange.com/trading/products/IDX/STX/SIF/products_en.html
STOXX Europe 600 Sectors Options Home Page at Eurex:
http://www.eurexchange.com/trading/products/IDX/STX/SIO/OSTB_en.html
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== Notes ==
== References ==
STOXX Ltd.

ALSO SEE: STOXX futures
STOXX Ltd. is an index provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Boerse Group. Formed in 1997, in advance of the completion of the European Economic and Monetary Union, the introduction of the Euro and the creation of the Eurozone, STOXX indices have become Europe's leading indices. STOXX Ltd. operates as a globally integrated index provider. 
The indices of STOXX Ltd. are licensed to over 500 companies around the world as underlyings for exchange traded funds (ETFs), futures and options, structured products and passively-managed investment funds. 
== History ==
STOXX Ltd. began as a joint venture between Deutsche Boerse, Dow Jones & Company and SIX Swiss Exchange.
In November 2009, Dow Jones announced a deal to sell its one-third interest in the Stoxx Ltd. stock-indexing business for $308.8 million to joint venture partners Deutsche Boerse and SIX Group AG. 
In 2015, Deutsche Boerse acquired all of the remaining shares of STOXX from SIX to become the sole owner.
In April 2019, Deutsche Boerse announced the acquisition of Axioma for $850 million. Axioma, a cloud-based portfolio and risk management software firm, will be folded into Deutsche Boerse's STOXX index business. General Atlantic is a minority investor in the deal.
== Products and Services ==
Besides STOXX's offerings that range from blue-chip indexes to strategy and style indexes, STOXX also markets the DAX and SMI indexes. 
== Key People ==
*Matteo Andreetto, CEO
*Steffen Hermanns, COO 
*Michael Hyzik, CFO
 
== References ==
Category:Indexes
Category:Indices
STOXX futures

STOXX futures can mean any of several Eurex products:
*EURO STOXX 50 Index Futures and Options 
*EURO STOXX Sector Index Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 50 Index Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Index Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 600 Sector Index Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe Mid 200 Index Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe 50 Index Weekly Options
*STOXX Europe Large 200 Index Futures and Options 
*STOXX Europe Small 200 Index Futures and Options
*EURO STOXX Select Dividend 30 Index Futures and Options