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By Katie Greifeld

March 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM UTC

Updated on

March 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM UTC

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Welcome to ETF IQ, a weekly newsletter dedicated to the $19 trillion global ETF industry. I’m Bloomberg News reporter and anchor Katie Greifeld.

US regulators wrangled a group of intrepid ETF issuers onto the phone this week to deliver a pretty straightforward message: don’t launch your hyper-leveraged funds.