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…
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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…
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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.…
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The international provider of trading services in CFDs, Plus500, announced a new share buyback programme today. The board of directors approved new buyback programme to additional $30.0 million of Plus500’s shares, just having completed the programme from August 2019 for $50.0 million. The purchases of share will take place in an open market transaction and…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 12, 2020. In US stocks overnight, the loss posted by Lyft in Q4 came in far lower than analysts had been expecting, and the ride hailing company passed $1bn in revenue for the quarter. Despite that,…
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CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has just announced that Actinver, BNP Paribas, Citibank and J.P. Morgan are now live on CLSNet. The aforementioned giants joined the standardized, automated bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies operating on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, earlier this week, increasing its…
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The US online trading services provider, GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), announces operating metrics for January 2020. The OTC trading volume for the retail segment was $161.4 billion, making a 23.4% increase in MoM but still down 12.3% compared to January the previous year. The average daily volume OTC trading made a 17.7% MoM…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 12, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The dollar is standing firm following Jerome Powell’s remarks on the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy’s growth prospects. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve acknowledged the potential spread…
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The trading solutions company, Tourmaline Partners, LLC, announced the recruitment of Joe Hodgkins as a senior trader in the firm’s Asia-Pacific office in Sydney. Tourmaline’s Syndey office opened in January 2018 as part of the expansion of the company in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and the growing demand for trading services there and increasing interest…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 11, 2020. Asian stocks have continued their move higher as much of China got back to work after the extended Lunar New Year break, albeit at a significantly reduced level due to self quarantine rules. Many…
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