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February 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

BCS Global Markets, BCS Broker and Argus research announce partnership agreement

Financial service group, BCS Global Markets, BCS Broker and US independent research analysis of US equities company, Argus Research announced earlier this week their partnership agreement. Clients of BCS Global Markets and BCS Broker will be able to regularly take advantage of the analytical data Argus Research provides for daily markets and company reports, macroeconomic…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Miners lead FTSE 100 close to positive territory in 2020

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 13, 2020. Barclays reported a better than expected profit before tax of £6.2bn for 2019, up 9% year on year as its investment bank revealed bumper returns from fixed income trading. Investors weren’t doing much celebrating…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Euronext reports double-digit growth in revenue for 2019

The pan-European exchange Euronext has just announced its trading volumes for Q4 and the full year. The acquisition of Oslo Børs VPS last year has significant contributions to Euronext’s revenue and all Oslo activity from July 2019 are included in the report. Highlights from the performance report include: Euronext sees a double-digit revenue growth for…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crude oil prices could bounce as Coronavirus panic settles

The following article was prepared by Alejandro Zambrano, Chief Market Strategist at ATFX. Coronavirus Spread Slows In late January, the financial markets reacted forcefully to the news of the Coronavirus. Most of the damage to markets occurred in the China stock indices, such as the Shanghai Composite, which slid by 13.32% from January 21 to February…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

DTCC calls for coordinated security strategy on distributed ledger technology

With the expected growth of distributed ledger technology (DLT) implementation, the post-trade financial services company, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), published a white paper on security issues and guidelines for securing DLT networks. The paper recommends establishing comprehensive DLT Security Framework to review existing security protocols, gaps in the procedures and increase the security…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA adds more clone firms to its warning list

UK regulator FCA has put out the details of several clone firms this week. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are the companies ATUK, Assetz Capital, Bitsmax, First Choice Finance, Goldmans Banc, Triton-Online, Cash Pug Finance and Thestepchange.com / The Step Change. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

AvaTrade launches MT5 trading platform in Japan

AvaTrade Japan announced earlier that it has launched MetaTrader 5 (MT5) trading platform in its local office. Japanese traders will now have access to all three versions of the platform - desktop, mobile and web. MT5 features a low spread (0.4 pips), as well as hundreds of additional trading instruments including stocks, Indices and ETFs. The platform…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The euro sinks to its lowest in 2½ years against the dollar

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 13, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The euro sunk to its lowest in 2½ years against the dollar during the early part of Thursday’s session, following the publication of December eurozone industrial production output data, which came…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Plus500 reports strong H2 2019 with revenues up 40% compared to H1

Global CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just released its preliminary unaudited results for the year ended 31 December 2019. The broker divides 2019 into two distinct halves, with strong improvement in H2 2019. All key metrics showed better performance in H2 2019 compared to H1 2019, impacted by extremely low volatility in Q1 2019.…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA adds more companies to its warning list

UK watchdog FCA has put out the details of several unregulated companies. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are the companies Alliance Private Bank, Fixed Income, Croceus Limited / Croceus Invest, Immediate Edge, I Say Capital, Selected Markets/Halsted Holdings Ltd, Apus Capital and New Rich Markets Ltd. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving…