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The VIX is the stock symbol that is being used in order to refer to the Volatility Index of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market. This is one of the most popular measures that specifically imply the volatility of the instrument S&P500 index options. In most cases, this is also commonly referred as the fear index or gauge by many investors who are engaged in Contracts for Difference or CFD trading and spread betting. Furthermore, in a general sense, what this instrument represents is the measurement of the expectation of …

The GFT is one of the best IT solutions that many investors use when it comes to spread betting. Recently, it has introduced a great innovation that will allow financial investors to engage in binary betting. What this means is that they will be able to make a buy or sell position for a prediction if a specific event will happen or not. This kind of new platform for the investors includes foreign exchange as well as different kinds of indices and even financial commodities.
With this kind of innovation, trading …

Spread betting over the last decade has been on a constant rise and the number of investors whom are spread betting is very encouraging, especially given the fact that spread betting has been a victim of unsubstantiated misconceptions and perceptions. Now many providers in spread betting are bound by common interests but competition amongst them as well as regulation by authorities has ensured that the standards set limit any possible chance of fraud or short changing in the perspective of the investors.
The way in which spread betting brokers operate …

The total number of spread betting accounts currently active in the UK has topped 1 million, marking the extent of the rise in popularity of the spread betting craze over the last decade.
With a heightening media and public profile for spread betting, combined with the timely rise and proliferation of the Internet, spread betting has risen to become a significant growth area for financial investing, leading to strong growth in the brokerage sector as players new and old step forward to meet this new found demand.
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Ongoing upheaval in key oil exporting nations is having an impact on the markets, creating an environment of increased volatility and high pricing.
Anti-government protests and demonstrations, which have already seen the fall of the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes, are continuing to spread across the region, with further unrest reported in Libya, Bahrain, Qatar and Yemen.
With Libya alone accounting for some 2% of global oil production, the political upheaval has had an understandable knock-on effect on oil pricing, and has sent already rising oil prices stratospheric, prompting fears of further inflationary …