PKN - PowerShares Global Nuclear Energy Portfolio ETF

CHICAGO, IL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- -- PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today the anticipated listing of a global nuclear energy portfolio. The ETF is expected to begin trading on April 3, 2008 on the NYSE Arca, Inc.

"Since 2001, nuclear power plants have achieved lower production costs than coal, natural gas and oil,"(1) said Bruce Bond, president and CEO of PowerShares Capital Management LLC. "We believe higher oil prices, rising standards of living, and demand for cleaner sources of energy are favorable trends powering worldwide growth for the nuclear energy industry. The PowerShares Global Nuclear Energy Portfolio provides investors exposure to the performance of the global nuclear energy industry in the benefit-rich ETF format."

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PKN closed it's second day of trading on Monday at $26.43, up 6 cents.

iShares Silver Trust (NYSE SLV)

The objective of the investment is to reflect the price of silver owned by the trust less the trust's expenses and liabilities. The fund is intended to constitute a simple and cost-effective means of making an investment similar to an investment in silver. Although the fund is not the exact equivalent of an investment in silver, they provide investors with an alternative that allows a level of participation in the silver market through the securities market.

Note: SLV closed 65 cents below the 50 day moving average on Monday.

ETFs which benefit from a decline in the U.S. Dollar, such as UDN, continue to appreciate as the USD declines.

The PowerShares DB US Dollar Bearish Fund (Symbol: UDN) is based on the Deutsche Bank Short US Dollar Index (USDX®) Futures Index™ (DB Short USD Futures Index). The Index, which is managed by DB Commodity Services LLC, is a rules-based index composed solely of short USDX® futures contracts. The USDX® futures contract is designed to replicate the performance of being short the US Dollar against the following currencies: Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc.

Victoria Bay Asset Management, LLC
and the American Stock Exchange(R) (Amex(R)) announced today the launch of
the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNG), an exchange traded security
based on natural gas, which will list on the Amex under the ticker "UNG."
 
The investment objective of UNG is to have the changes in percentage
terms of the unit's net asset value reflect the changes in percentage terms
of the price of natural gas delivered at the Henry Hub, Louisiana, as
measured by the changes in the price of the futures contract on natural
gas. It is not the intent of UNG to be operated in a fashion such that its
NAV will equal, in dollar terms, the dollar price of spot natural gas or
any particular futures contract based on natural gas.
  
UNG intends to invest primarily in those futures contracts that are in
the two months closest to expiration because we feel those contracts will
permit the fund to best achieve its investment objective," said John
Hyland, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Director of Portfolio Research. The
partnership does not seek to use leverage in the portfolio to achieve its
investment goals.

Barclays Global Investors on Wednesday launched on the American Stock Exchange the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (AMEX Stock Symbol HGY), billed as the first exchange-traded fund investing in high-yield bonds.

The fund uses for its benchmark the iBoxx $ Liquid High Yield Index, developed by the International Index Company.

The fund will hold 50 liquid securities representing a cross section of the high-yield market. The index will be re-balanced at the end of each month, and the number of holdings could deviate from 50 at times.

The Barclays Global Investors iShares exchange-traded fund group plans to launch an ETF tracking mortgage-backed securities, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The iShares Lehman Mortgage Backed Securities Fund will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange on or around Friday with the ticker MBB.A.

According to Financial Research Corp., a Boston-based firm, BGI had net inflows of $44.5 billion last year, second in the U.S. fund business to American Funds, which took in a net $74.0 billion.

The iShares ETFs ended 2006 with nearly $300 billion of assets, making Barclays by far the largest ETF player.

Net inflows into the iShares ETF group so far this year are tracking closely with the last three years, when the annual pace was roughly $45 billion to $50 billion, iShares Chief Executive Lee Kranefuss said in an interview on Wednesday.

"The ETF market as a whole continues to grow at a very good clip," Kranefuss told Reuters.

A recent study by Morgan Stanley projected that global ETF assets will grow to $2 trillion by 2011.

UltraShort QQQ ProShares (AMEX Stock Symbol QID) seek daily investment results that correspond to twice (200%)the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index. The Fund employs leveraged investment techniques to achieve its investment objective, which may expose the Fund to potentially dramatic changes (losses) in the value of its portfolio holdings and imperfect correlation to the index underlying the Fund's benchmark.

First Trust Advisors L.P. on Wednesday launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on an index tracking clean-energy companies.


The First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Index Fund ETF (NASDAQ QCLN) consists of 46 stocks of companies involved in various areas or clean energy, such as solar and bio-fuels.

The NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Liquid Series Fund is designed to correspond to the price and yield performance of the index upon which it is based. ETFs are financial products that trade like shares of stock and can be bought and sold throughout the trading day.

"As the world's economy shifts away from fossil fuel dependency towards efficient, renewable energy sources, investment opportunities are being created daily in this new industry," explains NASDAQ Executive Vice President John Jacobs. "This index, and the ETF based on it, will provide the tools needed to capture the investment opportunities created by this economic shift."