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2 02, 2015

CHF Mishap Results in CFD Brokers Altering Their Margin Requirements

Financial services firms that are providing CFDs on Swiss Instruments were playing with the lack of liquidity during the middle of one of the biggest currency moves in the Swiss franc. The CHF's immense drop affected its peers with shares and the benchmark SMI index faltering which resulted with CFD [...]

17 01, 2015

VIX Market calls expectancy caused by wavering positions

It's the agreement view of most options analysts that the daily turbulence in the U.S. stock market will soon increase this year following the fall back in 2011. So far, nothing has happened to prove the contrary. Deutsche Bank AG was the third major bank that told their equity derivatives [...]

17 10, 2014

How to remain calm in a unpredictable market

Following a five-year bull market, investors are apprehensive that a large drop is imminent around the corner. Market swings are basically are among the top things in the mind of people who can't seem to relax following the 2008-2009 stock market crisis. Investors are weary that another event in the [...]

3 10, 2014

FOREX – FXCM spearheads new pricing model

The NYC:FXCM, which is the leading online provider of foreign exchange trading recently announced that its U.S. subsidiary FOREX Capital Markets LLC ("FXCM US") has established the new retail FX pricing model. FXCM U.S. platforms will be displaying raw spreads and succeeding mark-ups previously consisting of spreads that will be [...]

1 10, 2014

ETX turn over Gresham CTC settlement tech

Gresham Computing plc, a leader in transaction control solutions to international financial institutions and corporate industries, in which it announced that the ETX Capital (ETX) is turning over Gresham's Clareti Transaction Control (CTC) solution. The CFD and spread betting company will at the outset be using CTC to automate the [...]

11 07, 2014

Analysing the most recent trade figures

Figures that were produced last week by the Office for National Statistics reveal that the United Kingdom's trade deficit for the month of April was greater than March due to the deteriorating of the manufacturing export. Initially, the projected deficit was believed to be almost be £10 billion; up from [...]

24 06, 2014

A press of the button for lower volatility

In the attempt to explain this year's fall in volatility and volume in financial trading, one newly-nominated culprit central bank's plan to use every available strategic short of raising interest rates were revealed too soon. It appears to be a deeply contrary view on last week's comment's by the Bank [...]

30 05, 2014

FC Markets propose stock CFDs of London Stock Exchange

IFC Markets earlier last week made public the release of new stock CFDs of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). This new set of mechanisms were added to the prior obtained stocks of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSC) markets as well as NASDAQ. Much attention was seen towards stock trading [...]

30 10, 2013

Surging Cost of US share dealing – risks could lead to investor damage

The expenditures of maintaining the intricacy of the U.S. equity market are damaging the individual savers according to a report from one of the global leaders in institutional investing firms. The costs incurred by the buyside companies in order to stay afloat and keep up with the technological advances in [...]

9 10, 2013

LSE spearheaded the launch of new derivatives market with FTSE futures

The London Stock exchange has recently launched its brand new derivatives markets after its long awaited summer takeover of the Turquoise derivatives. During the third quarter, the LSE which at that time owned a 51 % stake in Turquoise, swapped its derivatives into its regulated markets as part of its Recognised [...]

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