Tuesday April 15 2025
News Source: Global Exchanges
Focus: Derivative Market Segment
Type: General
Country: US
On 14th April 2025, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe) announced that it has launched for trading S&P 500 Equal Weight Index (EWI) options. The new options are the latest addition to Cboe’s S&P 500 toolkit and provide investors additional choice and diversification opportunity through broad-based U.S. equity market exposure.
The S&P 500 EWI (Bloomberg index ticker: SPW) is the equal-weight version of the S&P 500 Index, with each constituent of the S&P 500 EWI allocated a fixed weight of 0.2% of the index total at each quarterly rebalance. While including the same constituents, the S&P 500 EWI and the capitalization-weighted S&P 500 Index often differ in sector and factor exposures including smaller-cap vs. mega-cap stocks, momentum bias, and realized volatility.
The S&P 500 EWI options are designed to provide different exposure and complement Cboe’s S&P 500 Index (SPX) options, which are one of the most actively traded and liquid options in the world. Market participants will be able to utilize the S&P 500 EWI options to make directional trades based on their views of macro trends and shifts in equity market dynamics and for additional hedging and income-generating opportunities.
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