Posted by Matt Simpson | 21/04/2017 03:49 Carry trades may be approaching oversold levels and S&P500 appears set to break to new highs, whilst the spread between 3-1 month VIX points towards a broad recovery in risk-on. [embedded content] Matt Simpson | Senior Market Analyst A certified technical analyst, combining macro themes, monetary policy and business cycles…
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NEX Group plc (LON: NXG) formerly known as ICAP plc, a UK-based business focused on electronic markets and post trade business, announced today that it has received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for NEX SEF Limited (NEX SEF), a new Swap Execution Facility (SEF). NEX SEF will allow customers to trade Non-Deliverable…
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Sentiment has shifted in the Euro's favour in recent sessions, despite potential for Euro crosses to experience higher volatility as the French election looms. One of the key components that helped send EURJPY lower – geopolitical tensions – appears to be on the backburner for now. We are approaching the French, UK and German elections…
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Posted by Matt Simpson | 20/04/2017 05:17 The recent losses of oil prices could help the positive yield differential of US over CAD continue higher, which appears ready to break to a new high following the end of a classic ABC correction. [embedded content] Matt Simpson | Senior Market Analyst A certified technical analyst, combining macro themes,…
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Posted by Matt Simpson | 20/04/2017 03:37 Japan's trade continues to pick up yet, in all the time the US remains in deficit to Japan, it will remain a bargaining chip for Trump's bilateral trade talks. AUJPY is the trend that keeps on giving and we cannot yet rule out another low or move towards…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm House of Loans. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) today reported 3Q for 2017 net profit of $83.1 million ($89.2 million) on the back of revenues of $202.7 million ($205.8 million). Excluding a one-off loss of $4.0 million from the disposal of its investment in the Bombay Stock Exchange, net profit would have been $87.0 million, 2% lower than a year…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Zenith Investor. Zenith Investor is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, has today published its annual report into the global derivatives market. Highlights of the report are as follows: Derivatives volumes continued to grow in 2016 - increasing by 2.2% on 2015 - reaching a total number of…
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A new stock has joined the regulated market of the Vienna Stock Exchange Today is the first trading day of CLEEN Energy AG in the segment standard market. The Vienna Stock Exchange is the exclusive trading venue for the company’s stocks. Price discovery and trading take place in a daily midday auction at 13.30 hrs.…
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