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What’s Happening At FXCM?
December 29th, 2015
FXCM Inc stock tripled between December 11 and December 28. On Monday, shares rose as high as 40 percent from the previous week’s close. The stock, which has a moderate but not overly high 8 percent of its float short, ...
Outlook for the USD index for 2016
December 23rd, 2015
Goldman Sachs recently released a fairly optimistic outlook for the US dollar for 2016. The group anticipates that the dollar will be strong against both the yen and euro, while expecting US inflation to increase. With an impending ...
UBS Traders May Be First to Face Sanctions in Forex Probes
December 2nd, 2015
Swiss regulator may issue penalties by the end of the year Finma probed 11 currency, metals traders amid global scandal As many as seven UBS Group AG traders may face sanctions from Switzerland’s financial watchdog in the coming weeks, ...
Asia shares fall on China caution, yuan jumpy ahead of IMF decision
November 30th, 2015
Asian shares fell on Monday as Chinese stocks extended last week’s sharp losses, while the yuan bounced in volatile trade hours ahead of an IMF decision on whether to promote it to a basket of global reserve currencies. MSCI’s ...
10 Forex Concepts You Need to Understand
November 25th, 2015
The foreign exchange (forex, FX for short) is the world’s most liquid financial market, with a daily turnover of $5.3 trillion(1). Each day, governments, multinational corporations, banks, investors and traders exchange currencies on the open market to facilitate ...
CFTC Releases Annual Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2015
November 9th, 2015
Agency Filed 69 Enforcement Cases and Achieved a Record $3.14 Billion in Civil Monetary Penalties Ordered The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today released the agency’s enforcement results for fiscal year (FY) 2015, which included a record $3.144 ...
FXCM Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2015 Results
November 6th, 2015
Releases October 2015 Customer Trading Metrics Third Quarter 2015 Highlights: U.S. GAAP net revenues from continuing operations of $59.6 million U.S. GAAP net income attributable to FXCM Inc. from continuing operations of $64.3 million or $12.10(1) per fully diluted share, ...
Bitcoin to be 6th largest reserve currency by 2030: Research
November 5th, 2015
Bitcoin industry insiders have issued an optimistic prediction for the cryptocurrency over the next few decades, suggesting it could be as widely used as the Swiss franc or the Australian dollar. U.K.-based Magister Advisors, which advises the technology industry ...
UBS’s third-quarter 2015 results
November 3rd, 2015
UBS 3Q net profit CHF 2.1bn Net profit attributable to shareholders CHF 2.1bn; diluted earnings per share CHF 0.54 Adjusted1 profit before tax CHF 1.0bn Fully applied Swiss SRB Basel III CET1 capital ratio of 14.3% Fully applied Swiss SRB ...
Credit Suisse to Raise $6.3 Billion Of Capital in Strategy Shift
October 21st, 2015
Bank plans to hold IPO of Swiss banking unit by 2017 Third-quarter profit misses estimates on investment bank loss Credit Suisse Group AG will raise about 6.05 billion Swiss francs ($6.3 billion) of capital as part of a broad ...