BURSA MALAYSIA: KL Share Prices Close Broadly Lower (Bernama)

ETF start-up's shares jump on key new hire (CBS Market Watch)
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of pink-sheet-listed Index Development Partners Inc. vaulted as much as 8% Wednesday after the company said it had hired the former senior counsel at exchange-traded-fund powerhouse Barclays Global Investors.

Clean-energy ETF gets boost from Katrina (CBS Market Watch)
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- An exchange-traded fund tracking an index of alternative-energy companies has rallied after Hurricane Katrina virtually brought Gulf Coast oil facilities to a standstill.

Ministry Tasks ETF on Education (This Day)
Federal Ministry of Education has called on the Education Trust Fund (ETF) to help arrest the deplorable condition of all the Unity Colleges in the country.

(AFX UK Focus) 2005-09-06 17:54 GMT: NYSE removes restrictions on ETF trading (Interactive Investor)
BOSTON (AFX) -- The New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that as of Sept. 1, it has approved amendments removing order size and frequency restrictions for all exchange-traded funds trading on the Big Board.

BURSA MALAYSIA: KL Share Prices Close Broadly Lower (Bernama)
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 (Bernama) -- Share prices on Bursa Malaysia closed lower across the board in moderate trade following profit-taking activities on selected index-linked counters, said analysts.