TrimTabs - Press Release - Nov 23, 2004

Spectacular Success of Gold Exchange Traded Fund Sets Stage for More Commodity-backed ETFs

Santa Rosa, CA – Nov 24, 2004 – Although ETF flows turned negative on Monday, the unstoppable streetTRACKS® Gold fund (GLD) got another $419 million, bringing total assets to $1.3 billion in just three days of trading, according to TrimTabs Investment Research. “There’s been nothing like it in the history of ETFs,” stated Carl Wittnebert, Director of Research. “The spectacular success of this fund guarantees creation of more commodity-backed ETFs in the near future.”

On the first day the fund was offered to the public, Thursday, Nov 22, TrimTabs tracked net issuance of $589 billion with an additional inflow of $241 million on Friday, Nov 23rd. TrimTabs Exchange Traded Funds research published hard numbers on the two-day total of $830 million while estimates in some media were closer to $500 million. TrimTabs obtains the current day's issuance numbers for almost all ETFs, including GLD, and provides them to subscribers seven to eight hours after the market closes.

TrimTabs Investment Research announced their new daily research product on Nov 9, TrimTabs Exchange Traded Funds, which enhances its stock market liquidity product line. TrimTabs now tracks the net issuance in exchange traded funds by market segment and individual ETF, reporting daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly flows.

In related news, TrimTabs Daily Liquidity reported that US equity funds have received an estimated $4.5 billion over the five days ended Monday, November 22. It is estimated that US funds have received $12 billion of new cash so far in November.

StreetTRACKS® is a State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) sponsored family of exchange traded funds.

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