Trading News
Posted by IndependentInvestor on July 28, 2010 under Spread Betting News | 
Financial spread betting giant WorldSpread has announced it has struck a deal with 188Bet to take its online trading services into other largely untapped markets, including the emerging Asian markets where financial spread betting remains a niche interest. The partnership agreement will see spread betting hit a truly global stage, with analysts anticipating a strong [...]
Posted by MoneyWrite on July 14, 2010 under CFD Trading News, Spread Betting News |
There is a common misconception that Spread bets and Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are immune from the laws that govern insider trading. This is simply not the case. Anyone who is investing in spread bets or CFDs should be doing this because of their opinion on the market, and not through some privileged information. Insider [...]
Posted by IndependentInvestor on July 9, 2010 under Stock Market News |
We’ve done a lot about how contracts for difference and spread bets are affected by the austerity budget and also about which sectors to look at. How about looking at which companies are likely to grow? The first thing to do is to sell short companies that are dependent on government contracts. It is true [...]
Posted by IndependentInvestor on July 6, 2010 under Stock Market News |
The budget could have been harsher, but no one is really sure how. George Osborne raised taxes, cut spending and promised more pain. There are departmental budget cuts of 25% that are being talked about and there is a lot of shock across the political class. The first thing to remember about the budget is [...]
Posted by IndependentInvestor on June 30, 2010 under CFD Trading News |
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided that Contracts for Difference (CFDs) have to be regulated more thoroughly. The Financial Services Authority has had Contracts for Difference in it sights for some time. This is an extension of its crusade to clean up the market in small shares (“small caps”) to small investors. Many of [...]
Daily Market Analysis
Posted by CapitalSpreads on July 29, 2010 under Daily Market Analysis |
The summer doldrums have hit with a vengeance as virtually every asset class trades within its recent ranges. The various pieces of information are not helping either as one bit of good news is closely followed by another item of doubt. The US reporting season is now almost over and the news has been unequivocally [...]
Posted by CapitalSpreads on July 28, 2010 under Daily Market Analysis |
Rather a dull morning looks to be in the offing first thing today with no economic numbers out of the UK and Corporate numbers so far not putting a cat amongst the pigeons. The FTSE continues to bolster itself at the higher end of the trading range and the bulls can almost be seen sharpening [...]
Posted by CapitalSpreads on July 27, 2010 under Daily Market Analysis |
Markets continue to move higher on nothing very much except a lack of bad news and the continued drive for return. This is not to say, in any way, that the move is not warranted as we may now be looking at cash rates down at sub 1pc for much longer than anticipated and bond [...]
Posted by CapitalSpreads on July 26, 2010 under Daily Market Analysis |
News this morning has Vince Cable once again going over the populist bank bashing route as he attempts to solve the financial crisis by….. errrr….. forcing banks to lend more money to struggling companies. In the same breathe he then goes on about ensuring that the country does not endure another credit crisis (!!?)… ummm [...]
Posted by CapitalSpreads on July 23, 2010 under Daily Market Analysis |
It’s rare nowadays that you read some upbeat news on the front of the financial pages and today throughout the newspapers there’s little in the way of dire news. For once things actually look up for equities after company results from some US bellwethers last night surprised to the upside taking the Dow back above [...]