The following article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). The Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Janet Yellen said the last word on the US’ monetary policy outlook. The ‘appropriate stance of policy is now closer to […] neutral’ according to Janet Yellen. Hence, the…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) announced that will launch financially settled power futures for Germany against the background of a possible split of the German-Austrian price zone. The new products will be available for exchange trading and trade registration as of 25 April 2017 and will provide additional trading and hedging opportunities compared to the…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) announced that has launched QA Point, a cloud-based application that enables asset managers to utilize quantitative approaches in making investing decisions, designed to assist in creating increased productivity, better results, and accelerated internal collaboration among investment professionals. QA Point utilizes a point-and-click interface and access to Thomson Reuters content,…
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ETC tracks performance of Brent crude and offers a currency hedge Deutsche Börse just announced that a new exchange traded commodity (ETC) issued by BNP Paribas Arbitrage Issuance B.V. has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday. ETC name: EUR Hedged RICI Enhanced Brent Crude Oil Total Return Index ETC ISIN: DE000PB6REB0 Management…
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SIX Financial Information announced that has launched a new Common Reporting Standard (CRS)/ Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) data service, enabling financial institutions to meet the requirements which are being phased in from June 2017. The SIX CRS/AEoI service identifies CRS-reportable client income by flagging relevant corporate actions, simplifying resource-intensive data cleansing and alleviating the…
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Just one day after sharing that it will create a premier platform for capital market, economic, and business thought leadership named ‘Market Site’, Nasdaq Dubai announced that has added National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Dubai Investments (DIC) to its equity futures market, raising the number of leading UAE companies…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced enforcement actions against 27 individuals and entities behind various alleged stock promotion schemes that left investors with the impression they were reading independent, unbiased analyses on investing websites while writers were being secretly compensated for touting company stocks. SEC investigations uncovered scenarios in which public companies hired promoters…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that the latest MetaTrader 5 Android build now features position history. All data on deals related to a position are grouped into one record containing position Open and Close time (determined by the first and last trades), volume, average weighted Open and Close price and, most importantly, the…
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LeapRate Exclusive Analysis... Last week's release of 2016 financial results by binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) came and went without too much notice or fanfare. Indeed, the market was not too impressed with what TechFinancials had to say as the company's shares traded down by 13% right after the results were…
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Dow Jones has announced the beta launch of DNA, a platform that empowers third-party businesses to access and integrate Dow Jones news and data into their own solutions. With the launch of DNA (Data, News and Analytics), Dow Jones is opening up its archive of premium news and data to customers, partners and their developers…
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