LR: Your growth has been meteoric. What were the key milestones? Raj: For the first two years we focused heavily on client acquisition and, based on the strength of our offering, quickly attracted many of the largest brokers in the world including from ASIC, CYSEC and FCA regulated entities. After trading for two years, we…
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EUROPEAN SHARES European stock markets registered a light retreat on Wednesday following a mixed trading session in Asia, while U.S contracts also point to a weaker open as the consolidation continues on riskier assets. These bearish corrections, of limited magnitude so far, are mostly perceived as “healthy” by investors following the strongest rally of the…
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What to watch Emergency UK budget: Today at 12:30pm, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will present an emergency summer budget update, in which he is expected to announce a host of measures intended to assist the UK economy’s recovery from the coronavirus lockdown. A multi-billion pound green jobs scheme, cash for firms that hire trainees, and vouchers…
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What to watch Paychex: Human resource and payroll outsourcing firm Paychex reports its latest quarterly earnings today. The $28bn market cap firm’s share price is down 8.6% year-to-date, after a 30% surge over the past three months. Analysts are expecting an earnings-per-share figure of $0.60, and overwhelmingly favour a hold rating on the stock. How…
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Daniel Carter, Managing Director of Velocity Trade, commented: TraderEvolution has built a very strong multi-asset trading platform. This enabled us to provide a unique offering to our customers mixed between listed securities and OTC products. The trading platform is cleverly designed in the back office, enabling us to easily integrate and manage the multitude of markets…
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EUROPEAN SHARES European share markets slid slightly lower on Tuesday as bullish market sentiment takes a break ahead of a busy upcoming few days with a slew of new macro data. Investors unsurprisingly seized the occasion brought by this morning’s disappointing German industrial production data to cash in some of their profits, following a six-day…
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With volume of both buying and selling having declined, this could be the beginning of the accumulation phase of a new uptrend. Confirmation could be sought from studying behaviour around near-term resistances, primarily the 50 and 100 SMAs not far above the current price. Two crucial events this week though will mean that fundamentals are…
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EUROPEAN SHARES All eurozone benchmarks opened significantly higher on Monday as the momentum on riskier assets remains strongly bullish momentum despite coronavirus cases continuing to rise over the weekend. As explained in previous reports, the recent positive macro data and potential development of a cure against the virus boosted market sentiment last week. However, the…
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FTSE 100 gives up gains to post a flat week On Friday, the FTSE 100 fell 1.3%, giving up all of the gains it had edged out over the course of the week; most of which came on Monday and Thursday. With US markets closed, trading volume on Friday for FTSE 100 shares was down…
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Banking stocks help FTSE 100 higher London-listed shares were buoyed by positive employment figures in the US, as the UK’s biggest companies make a substantial portion of their revenues from the US. The FTSE 100 jumped 1.3%, although it is still down 17.3% year-to-date, lagging far behind the major US indices. Banking, travel and retail…
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