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IronFX informs on Monthly Performance Overview for January 2016
February 3rd, 2016
IronFX has issued a report to make publish its Monthly Performance Overview for January 2016. The company informs that: IronFX Portfolio Management’s Hybrid and Dynamic strategies finished January 2016 with a very positive performance and continued to add value ...
Major Asian stocks close up, Nikkei rebounds 2.88%
January 13th, 2016
Asia markets closed mostly higher, with some major indexes rebounding Wednesday, in a sign of returning stability even in the face of lingering worries about China and falling commodity prices. That follows a volatile start to the year, in ...
Crude oil prices fall almost 20 percent since beginning of the year
January 12th, 2016
Crude oil prices continued a relentless dive early on Tuesday, falling almost 20 percent since the beginning of the year as analysts scrambled to cut their 2016 oil price forecasts and traders bet on further price falls. U.S. crude ...
Gold in 2016
January 8th, 2016
Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar’s strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These developments typically precede an economic and financial crisis ...
Dow Tumbles Nearly 400 Points on China Worries
January 8th, 2016
Dow industrials, S&P 500 are off to their worst-ever starts to the year The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 400 points Thursday as steep falls in Chinese equities spilled over to global markets. Thursday’s selloff came after the ...
China Halts Stock Trading After 7% Rout Triggers Circuit Breaker
January 4th, 2016
Weak manufacturing data, end to share-sale ban sparked rout Stocks in Hong Kong extend retreat after mainland halt The worst-ever start to a year for Chinese shares triggered a trading halt in more than $7 trillion of equities, futures ...
China and Clinton Agree: Traders Should Pay for Canceled Orders
December 30th, 2015
CSRC rule proposals seen taking effect in as early as 2016 Proposal to levy fees on high cancel rates echoes Clinton plan Chinese securities regulators are preparing some of the world’s strictest regulations on a trading practice at the ...
IPO Wars: New York Stock Exchange Is Going Global
December 28th, 2015
Apparently, the world’s biggest stock exchange isn’t big enough. The New York Stock Exchange – the symbol of American capitalism that boasts a market cap of around $21 trillion – is ramping up efforts to attract more foreign ...
PRECIOUS-Gold stays firm after Fed raises rates
December 17th, 2015
Gold held gains on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, as expected, making clear it was a tentative beginning to a “gradual” tightening cycle. The U.S. central bank’s ...
Brokers Warned Not to Steer Clients’ Stock Trades Into Slow Lane
December 15th, 2015
Brokers have been put on notice: treat your customers’ orders as well as you treat your own. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulator, recently said firms using the fastest, most expansive price databases for their own stock trading must ...
