Category: Forex

BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland
February 24, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has earlier today announced that it has added Andrew McCormack and Morten Bech to its BIS Innovation Hub. Andrew McCormack will head the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Singapore. Morten Bech, Head of Secretariat for the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), will lead the Hub Centre in Switzerland. They will…

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acquisition
February 21, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Morgan Stanley buying E*Trade in $13bn deal

Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) announced on Thursday that it will acquire E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC), a financial services company and pioneer in the online brokerage industry, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $13 billion. E*TRADE stockholders will receive 1.0432 Morgan Stanley shares for each E*TRADE share, which represents per share…

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February 21, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM teams up with TradingView on trading platform integration

FX, CFD and crypto trading provider FXCM Group, LLC has earlier this week announced the launch of an API-powered integration with TradingView, Inc., the all-in-one financial platform for traders in the equity, cryptocurrency, futures, and FX markets. The partnership means that FXCM users will now be able to execute orders directly from the TradingView platform.…

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Daily Market analysis
February 21, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: European stock markets drift lower

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 21, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: EUROPEAN SHARES Stock markets drifted lower on Friday in Europe, extending yesterday’s losses as many investors switched their exposure from risky assets to safe havens on the fresh advance of the coronavirus.…

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forex market crypto news and updates
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…

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fma warning
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…

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CLS Group trading volumes
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…

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