September 29, 2014 BY Mike Fox

CME Group licenses CFFEX'S China market data

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and China Financial Futures Exchange Inc. (CFFEX), the sole financial derivatives exchange in mainland China, announced today that they have signed an agreement on market data provision.  Under this agreement, CME Group will license and distribute CFFEX market data outside of mainland China, to customers…

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September 29, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Yuan to start direct trading with Euro as China pushes usage

China will start direct trading between the yuan and the euro as soon as tomorrow as the world’s second- largest economy seeks to spur global use of its currency. The move will lower transaction costs and so make yuan and euros more attractive to conduct bilateral trade and investment, the People’s Bank of China said…

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September 29, 2014 BY Mike Fox

IG enhances its new equities platform - adds market screener

IG Group (LON:IGG) has an update on its new stock broking platform which was launched a couple of weeks ago. The company states that it's new web-based platform now offers a Market Screener, enabling traders and investors to filter a list of stocks by key metrics such as share price, market cap, dividend yield and…

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September 29, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Swissquote Daily Technical Report: EUR/USD - Challenging a strong support area

In Swissquote’s Monday short term technical trading report, the research team outlines the major technical levels of popular currency instruments with forecasts, below is the outline for EUR/USD and AUD/USD. To view and download the entire report, click here (PDF). EUR/USD: Challenging a strong support area • EUR/USD has broken the strong support at 1.2755…

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