The large spread betting group, IG Group, is predicting a thinning out in the ranks of spread betting exchanges. Their theory is that the new Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulations mean that the spread betting groups are going to need to keep large amounts of cash on hold and that [...]
There is a common misconception that Spread bets and Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are immune from the laws that govern insider trading. This is simply not the case. Anyone who is investing in spread bets or CFDs should be doing this because of their opinion on the market, and not [...]
With the current debate about the rise of Capital Gains Tax many people are looking at spread bets as a way of getting around capital gains tax while still being exposed to the share market. Another area where both contracts for difference and spread bets really work well is with [...]
David Laws has been lost as the UK’s Chief Secretary of the Treasury. And verily there was much gnashing and wailing of teeth. According to George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, this was the job that David Laws was “put on earth to do”. So what does this mean [...]
It used to be so simple, if your country had a problem with keeping its house in order you could let your currency devalue. This would mean that everyone in the country would get poorer as they could buy less with their currency with holidays and imports becoming more expensive. [...]
Britain’s new coalition government has found that the public finances to be an even bigger mess than they were warning the public about. This has meant that they have had to look at new ways of raising taxes, and revenue raising measures will include some quite steep hikes to capital [...]
