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Following a series of encouraging results from financial spread betting firms London Capital Group decided to step up its quest to become the market leader with introduction of lower spreads on major markets including Dow Jones Spots and GBP/USD.
The move is seen as a direct reaction to the growth of financial spread betting in the UK and reluctance of some of the spread betting brokers to tighten the spreads. As many brokers are not eager to cut the spreads and thus their profit margins, …

Spread betting houses are showing a healthy profit, or are moving sharply out of loss, as shown in the latest set of trading results for spread betting services.
World Spreads Group saw very strong trading results for the six months to September 2009.  Both the number of active clients and the number of trades per day went up, proving that there is still room in the market for a new entrant if they can offer something worthwhile.  Customer loyalty is not really much of a …

It seems that everyone is getting in on the spread betting and contracts for difference craze.  This time it’s Rowan Dartington, a reasonably small regional stockbroker base in the South West that’s offering the service.  It doesn’t seem to be aiming for the cheapest end of the market, more to assure that its regional position is not harmed.  They will be offering stop loss services as well.
There seems to be a pattern here.  People who can’t hope to dominate any niche within the spread …

We are happy to announce that we have added a new financial spread betting broker to our website and you can see their details in our spread betting comparison table.
ProSpreads is an established financial spread betting broker with high reputation and great customer service. More importantly they offer very competitive spreads and low margin requirements. They offer just 1 point spread on FTSE100 and 2.5 points on UK Brent Crude.