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Corgi On Pace to Launch 500 ETFs In First Year

Bloomberg's Isabelle Lee joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Corgi is on pace to launch roughly 500 ETFs within its first year, more than BlackRock accumulated over many years. It already ranks among the largest US issuers by product count and says its eventual goal is 1,000 funds spanning leveraged stocks, buffered strategies, semiconductors and narrowly targeted themes.

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US Back and Forth on Iran Confused Everyone in Region, Says Michael Allen

Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies and a former national security aide to President George W. Bush, said that America's inability to stick to a coherent message on Iran has confused the American people and the MidEast region, including US adversaries. Allen also discussed the tentative agreement to rebuild Gaza, saying there is a low likelihood that it is enacted how it looks on paper but that the President and his team deserve credit for trying.

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Banks Offload Risk from Leveraged ETFs with 'Crash Puts'

Bloomberg's Yiqin Shen joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Leveraged ETFs that offer the tantalizing prospect of doubling or tripling the daily returns of an individual stock are famously risky for investors who buy them. The result has been a quiet surge of activity in an exotic corner of the derivatives market, where investment banks, hedge funds and other institutional investors trade what are often known as "crash puts" and sometimes referred to as cliquets or stability notes.

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