The following article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). ECB just winked to the hawks The European Central Bank (ECB) will not discuss about what to do with its Quantitative Easing (QE) program until the end of summer. President Mario Draghi said that…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. MiFID II, the “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive”, is legislation that is set to be implemented across the European Union on January 3rd, 2018. As this due date approaches, many market participants are scrambling to implement changes to…
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Four years in the making and 18 rounds of negotiations later, and the Euro-Japanese free-trade agreement finally got the green light. Announced officially on Thursday 6 July, the colloquially named ‘cars for cheese’ deal is expected to increase European exports to Japan by €20bn a year, writes FXTM Staff Writer, Emma Davidson. Europe has pressed…
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The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Every risk management book in every corner of the world propounds the values of diversification. Your financial advisor is probably worrying about the weight of your assets and trying to balance them so that you get a healthy spread of growth stocks, international shares,…
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The following article was written by Tony Chrystopher, Financial Analyst at UFX.com’s Trading Support Center. UFX.com Weekly Market Review – Sunday, July 16, 2017 Here are some of the major financial events of the past week and how they affected the global currency and commodity markets. The EUR/USD rose by 0.63%, closing the week at…
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The forces behind currency markets, and what makes them tick, is always an interesting topic. Currency movements affect every part of society, from travellers to financiers, writes FXTM Head of E-Commerce, Nandik Barbhaiya. The strength of a country’s currency is often in direct proportion to their fiscal health and political stability, and this is why…
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The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. Hello, The talk of the town, or at least the talk of traders’ town, is clearly about cryptocurrencies these days – especially the BIG FOUR – Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, and Ripple. Everyone is into buying or trading them,…
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The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. While some industry sources are arguing whether or not MiFID II will dramatically affect the FX industry, most FSA and CySEC licensed FX brokers are rapidly adjusting policies in order to comply with the new requirements. One…
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The following article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). Oil prices are having hard time to keep their head above the water. The energy markets were hit by several waves of sell-off since the beginning of the year and the news flow is…
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The following article was written by Emma Davidson, Communications Manager at FXTM. Global currency revaluation is a divisive topic, writes FXTM’s Emma Davidson. It has been covered extensively by experts purporting it will never happen, and others who decry that it is inevitable. So, which camp has it right? A global currency re-evaluation would require all nations…
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