{"id":7398,"date":"2008-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"merrill-lynch-and-socgen-launch-emissions-indexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/merrill-lynch-and-socgen-launch-emissions-indexes.html","title":{"rendered":"Merrill Lynch and SocGen launch emissions indexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters)- U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch and France&#8217;s Societe Generale both launched global carbon indexes on Wednesday to track the international carbon markets, which were worth some $60 billion (30 billion pounds) last year. <\/p>\n<p>The indexes will allow investors to access the world&#8217;s carbon markets, including the European Union&#8217;s emissions trading scheme and carbon trading markets under the United Nations&#8217; Kyoto Protocol.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The (Merrill Lynch indexes) come in response to strong demand from our institutional, asset management, and wealth management clients who seek exposure to the rapidly growing global carbon market,&quot; Abyd Karmali, managing director and global head of emissions markets at Merrill Lynch, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/258830414\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/258830414\/idUKNOA72848420080327\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters)- U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch and France&#8217;s Societe Generale both launched global carbon indexes on Wednesday to track the international carbon markets, which were worth some $60 billion (30 billion pounds) last year. The indexes will allow investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}