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‘Currency war’ to be ‘lose-lose’ game: Strategist (video)
February 4th, 2015
With each fresh headline of a central bank cutting interest rates comes rising concerns over the global race to the bottom. As the U.S. contemplates coming off policies that suppressed the dollar’s value, its counterparts are heading in the ...
Dukascopy: Changes in the swap-free conditions
February 3rd, 2015
Dukascopy Bank‘s Overnight Policy is aimed at providing highly competitive rollover conditions to its clients in order to underline the Bank’s leadership in the FX industry. Dukascopy Bank applies different rollover rates to ensure that higDukascopy Bank’s Overnight Policy ...
Commodity currencies feel heat; dollar, yen, euro stable
January 30th, 2015
Commodity currencies nursed hefty losses on Friday, as investors sent the Australian dollar to 5 1/2 year lows as they bet on the Australian central bank reducing interest rates when it meets next week. While currencies from energy and resource producing countries, such ...
Standard Chartered CEO Is Under Pressure From Shareholders, Regulators, Staff
January 29th, 2015
Bank’s Top Shareholders Privately Push for New Leadership Amid Investor, Regulatory Anxiety Hundreds of Standard Chartered PLC’s most senior executives gathered earlier this month on Singapore’s Sentosa island to address the global bank’s dimming fortunes. From a lectern at ...
FXCM announcement on Negative Balances
January 28th, 2015
FXCM issued a press release informing that: Forgives Majority of Clients Who Incurred Negative Balances FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), announced today its decision to forgive approximately 90% of its clients who incurred negative balances in certain jurisdictions, on January 15, ...
Dukascopy Europe launches CFD trading on demo and live accounts
January 28th, 2015
Dukascopy issued a press release announcing that: The company has launched CFD trading. The new instruments are offered for regular LIVE and DEMO self trading accounts, using the same range of platforms as FX instruments. Traders willing to gain ...
Central Bank of Hungary voted to leave the central bank base rate unchanged
January 28th, 2015
Central Bank of Hungary issued a press release informing that voted to leave the central bank base rate unchanged at 2.10%. In the Council’s judgement, Hungarian economic growth is likely to continue. While the pace of economic activity is ...
Central Banks and Economic Reports Keep Bull Market Alive
January 28th, 2015
At the age of 72 months, the U.S. bull market may be long in the tooth. Stocks may be significantly over-priced based on the CAPE-10 P/E ratio, and Warren Buffett’s favorite measurement, the ratio of market capitalization to GDP. ...
Liquid Markets issued Important Notice
January 28th, 2015
Following the decision by the Swiss National Bank to remove the informal peg between the Swiss franc and the euro, which prompted volatility across the foreign exchange markets LQD Markets (UK) Limited (“LQD”) has experienced trading difficulties and has ...
Boston Prime disabled all trading services
January 27th, 2015
Following the decision of the Swiss National Bank and the volatility of EURCHF on January 15, another firm has disabled all trading services. Boston Prime Ltd., a UK FCA regulated firm, disabled all trading services as a result of ...
