Daily Market News: Nasdaq Composite closes in on double digit 2020 gain as Tesla soars again LeapRate

February 20, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Nasdaq Composite closes in on double digit 2020 gain as Tesla soars again

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 20, 2020. Stock prices are continuing to grind higher despite the ongoing coronavirus epidemic and warnings from companies including Apple and Adidas, with the latter revealing yesterday that its business activity in China has tumbled by…

February 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FMA hosted debate on passive vs active management

Investment industry leaders from New Zealand were gathered in Auckland last night to debate whether passive or active fund management was best. The debate was hosted by Financial Markets Authority (FMA), on topic: ‘passive management gives investors the best outcome’. Most KiwiSaver funds and managed funds in New Zealand favor active management, however passive management…

February 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

BidFX introduces a mobile app for investment managers with 27/7 access to global markets

BidFX, electronic foreign exchange trading solutions provider, announced a big upgrade to its mobile app to answer global demand for secure management and trade of spot FX, forwarding and NDF positions anywhere in the world, at any time. Global SAAS technology provides users with access to BidFX’s trading functionality to watch the market and manage…

February 20, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group's ADV up 11% MoM in January

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just published its operating metrics for the month of January 2020. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.77 trillion, up 10.8 percent from USD1.60 trillion in December 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted to…

February 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

IG Group's five predictions for the future of trading

The multi-platform trading company, IG published predictions of what the future of trading would look like. Thirteen financial writers and analysts submitted their predictions for what trading might be like in the year 2069. Here are the top five: 1. Thought powered trading Trading platforms will be controlled by trader’s minds allowing to open or…

February 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

New Zealand FMA adds three new companies to its warning list

SL Markets appeared yesterday on the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) list of alerts and warnings. The company's website states that it uses National Cloud Service Co Limited’s financial service provider registration details. However, SL Markets is not associated with the New Zealand incorporated company National Cloud Service Co Limited. SL Markets also claims its operations are…

February 20, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

ATFX adds 3M shares to its CFD trading list

Global broker ATFX announced that it has just added 3M Co. shares (NYSE:MMM) to its stock CFDs trading list. 3M shares have been battered by the coronavirus outbreak, which has affected most companies with significant exposure to Asia. Trading CFDs on stocks allows investors to open both long and short positions on a stock without…

February 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Nuvei teams up with Max Group and agrees to sell CreditGuard

Nuvei, electronic payment processing company, announced yesterday its strategic partnership with the Max Group (MAX), Israel-based financial institution. The collaboration will allow MAX’s commercial customers who wish to set up business activities outside of Israel access to Nuvei’s payment acquiring network in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Nuvei also agreed to sell…

February 20, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The Japanese yen remains under pressure

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 20, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The Japanese yen remains under pressure and is currently trading at ¥111.70 against the US dollar, its lowest since April 2019, having lost more than 1.7% to the greenback since markets…

February 20, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

HYCM launches ETFs on its MT5 trading platform

Global forex broker, HYCM, announced earlier today that it has just launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on its MT5 platform. In addition to forex, stocks, indices, cryptocurrencies, and commodities, the broker will now offer 20 different ETFs including the top 3 traded ETFs: SPDR S&P 500, iShares Russell 2000 Index, and VelocityShares 3x Inverse Crude Oil…