The following article was submitted by Michael Stark, market analyst at Exness. The economic calendar has taken a backseat to events in the news for most CFD instruments so far this week. With most traders only just returning from holidays at Christmas and New Year, markets have become somewhat more active into the middle of this week.…
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European derivatives exchange Eurex has released its volumes report for the month of December earlier this week. Clearing volumes continued their upward trend in the last month of 2019, recording triple digit growth in average daily cleared volumes. Significant increases in volumes were also seen at Eurex Repo and EEX. Despite YoY volumes of traded…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 8, 2020. Markets have taken another leg down this morning as the ongoing geopolitical tension continues to guide price movement. Iran launched a missile strike at US military targets in Iraq. Following this, Iranian officials intimated…
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The following market analysis was prepared for LeapRate by Ramy Abouzaid, ATFX (AE) Head of Market Research. In the early hours of Wednesday the 8th of January 2020, the Pentagon confirmed the attacks targeting two American bases on Iraqi soil with fifteen ballistic missiles launched from Iranian territory. According to US military sources, via ABC news networks,…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 8, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The dollar swung widely against the safe havens of the yen and Swiss franc following Iran’s missile attack against American military bases in Iraq. However, despite the price…
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Australian watchdog ASIC has announced yesterday that it has extended the suspension of the Australian financial services (AFS) licence held by Halifax Investment Services Pty Ltd until 8 January 2021, effective 18 December 2019. The Halifax AFS licence can continue only to ensure that clients of Halifax continue to have access to an external dispute resolution…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are FXonspot, The Bond People, Bonds Finder, The Easy Loans, Secure UK Assets, Guy Berna, Omacl Loans Ltd, Shinhan Bank London, and DCDM Strategies. According to the regulator, the fraudsters…
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The possibility of a full-blown war between Iran and the United States has triggered a cryptocurrency boom in the Middle Eastern country. The details around the "crypto spring" in Iran come from the Nikkei Asian Review. After the January 3rd killings of the Iranian military commander Quasem Soleimani, Bitcoin's price has increased by 4%, realizing…
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The global Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitbox announced on 6th of January that it will delist all trading pairs that include XRP. Bitbox has not released the exact reason as to why it is delisting all XRP-based trading pairs, but one thing that markets suggest is that the growing concerns related to the Ripple currency might…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 7, 2020. Morrison's kicked off the Christmas trading updates for UK supermarkets this morning with a gloomy warning which revealed falling sales and a challenging outlook. The group said like-for-like sales for the first 22 weeks…
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