State Street ETF Launch: International Consumer Staples Sector (STT, IPS)

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Published: July 22, 2008 8:42 am

Last Updated: April 28, 2020 5:29 am

State 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 Consumer Staples Sector ETF (AMEX: IPS)

The index includes over 330 non-US companies in consumer staples with market caps over $100 million.

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

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