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The Legal Industry Is Still On Life Support
December 15th, 2016
Perhaps it’s a bit much to say a multi-billion-dollar industry handing out fat bonuses is on life support, but it’s equally important not to let appearances deceive you. The legal industry (and we’re talking specifically about law firms… not ...
KCG released November 2016 Trade Volumes
December 15th, 2016
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of November 2016.In Market Making, KCG averaged $32.8 billion dollar volume traded, 6.7 billion shares traded, and 3.9 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global ...
CME Group Open Interest Surpasses 120 Million Contracts for First Time in its History
December 15th, 2016
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced it set a total open interest record of 120.7 million contracts on December 13, 2016, surpassing the previous record of 119.4 million contracts set on December 12, 2016. ...
Here Are Some of the Markets Making Big Moves After the Fed Announcement
December 15th, 2016
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time this year on the back of a stronger job market and increasing inflation expectations. While the move was expected, there was a surprise: new projections show central bankers now see ...
Pound to Euro Rate: Beware a Capitulation Lower
December 15th, 2016
The British Pound is recovering from recent lows against the Euro thanks to some better-than-forecast employment and earnings data but we hear from one leading analysts that the GBP/EUR could be destined to fall as low as 1.11 again. ...
FXCM Reports Retail customer trading volume of $353 billion in November
December 14th, 2016
FXCM Inc. (NASDAQ:FXCM) announced certain key customer trading metrics for November 2016 for its retail and institutional foreign exchange business. November 2016 Customer Trading Metrics from Continuing Operations (1) Retail Customer Trading Metrics Retail customer trading volume (2) of ...
Oil prices fall on rising U.S. crude stocks, OPEC output concerns
December 14th, 2016
Oil prices fell on Wednesday following a reported rise in U.S. crude inventories and an estimate that OPEC may have produced more crude in November than previously thought, potentially undermining a planned output cut. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) ...
GAIN Capital reports OTC average daily volume of $11.7 billion for November 2016
December 13th, 2016
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) has issued a report to publish its Monthly certain operating metrics for the month of November 2016. According the announcement, Gain Capital reports: Retail Segment Metrics OTC average daily volume1 of $11.7 billion, ...
Euro Devaluation Accelerates – Millions Of Europeans Wishing They’d Bought Gold
December 10th, 2016
Euro Devaluation Accelerates – Millions Of Europeans Wishing They’d Bought Gold ECB Chairman Mario Draghi’s announcement of bigger and better QE this morning should have surprised no one. The fact is that the eurozone is coming apart at the ...
Nikkei hits record high after Wall St boos
December 9th, 2016
Japan’s Nikkei index has hit a one-year high, boosted after Wall Street posted a record close overnight. This was part of a month-long rally since Donald Trump’s election victory and markets hope that he will introduce new stimulus measures ...