This membership with the FIA, established in 1955, is a strategic step for Plus500. The FIA advocates for the futures, options, and derivatives markets and includes various members such as futures commission merchants, principal traders, clearing firms, exchanges, and trading firms. Plus500's membership aligns them with other significant market players in these fields. David Zruia,…
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The crypto giant, Bitcoin, witnessed a slight decline of 1.11%, accompanied by a notable 71.58% increase in market volume over the last 24 hours, reaching $14.85bn. However, the cryptocurrency had touched its yearly high by surpassing the crucial $38,000 mark in the previous week. Ethereum also saw a 1.42% decline to $2,045.62, with its trading…
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In the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 2.4% yesterday, Boeing, Dow and Walt Disney were among the bottom five performers, along with Chevron and Exxon. Disney fell 4.1% as investors reacted to its decision to stop paying more than 100,000 workers during the shutdown while still planning to pay a $1.5bn dividend, while Boeing…
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Rough week for small-cap UK stocks Small and mid-sized London-listed stocks faced a far tougher week than their large cap counterparts last week, with the FTSE 250 index sinking 4.5% to the FTSE 100’s 1.2% drop. After UK banks were forced to scrap billions in dividend payments, we’ve seen a corresponding impact on company plans…
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OIL Oil price is attempting a difficult rebound with WTI climbing back above $21 after sinking to a 17-year-low of $19.40 yesterday evening. Rumours about talks between Putin and Trump, will include discussions on the oil price, are giving some hope to the barrel amid a backdrop of its dramatic performance YTD that shows a…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Share markets opened lower everywhere in Europe on Thursday as uncertainty remains the overriding sentiment and has pushed investors into taking any profits generated by this week’s recovery attempt. The fact remains that investors from around the world have welcomed the recent historical batch of monetary and fiscal responses to coronavirus and these…
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OIL Risk-on remains predominant on markets. This is moderately helping the oil price in its attempt at a difficult recovery, as investors are still worried about the huge oversupply that is likely to remain the main topic for the next few months. The WTI price jumped up to $25 in the first part of the…
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The following article was written by Alejandro Zambrano, Chief Market Strategist, ATFX. The dollar index, DXY, had a great start to the new decade, as the currency turned higher from December 31, 2019, and never looked back until February 20. At one point the USD was up by 3.67%, and against the Euro, the dollar…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for March 2, 2020. Central banks around the world are moving to combat the impact of the coronavirus by providing additional support to the financial system, following the worst week for global markets since 2008. The Bank of…
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The following article was submitted by Michael Stark, market analyst at Exness. Some of the most important events in markets this week are the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Canada. A number of countries around the world will also release annual and quarterly data on GDP growth. Finally there’s…
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