UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has issued its scheduled update on its revenue for the first half of its FY20 financial year (H1 FY20) ahead of entering its close period. Net trading revenue in H1 FY20 is expected to be around £250 million (prior year: £251 million). The prior year period benefitted from…
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Global FinTech company Gold-i has just announced that it has appointed Joy Li as its new Head of Business Development for the Asia Pacific region. Li has been with the company for a year now. Prior to Gold-i, she worked for Israeli vendor Leverate. Li will be reporting directly into Gold-i’s Chief Commercial Officer, Julian Elliott, and…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 5, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT The pound keeps on gaining and has now reached a 7-month high against the US dollar and the highest in two and a half years against the euro…
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CQG, a global provider of high-performance technology solutions for traders, brokers, commercial hedgers, and exchanges, has announced that it has added Benjamin Soong to its team as President, APAC, and Rick Chang as Head of Greater China. Rod Giffen, previously CQG President, APAC, is now Chief Experience Officer (CXO). CQG has recently signed 14 futures…
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The cofounders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have just announced that they will be stepping down from their roles in Alphabet. The current CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, will now take over the mother company as well as the next CEO. Both Sergey and Larry will remain shareholders and on the board of…
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Vantage FX, a global forex broker known for its ECN/STP service and wide array of CFD possibilities, is celebrating its ten-year anniversary by rebranding its entire website, its look and feel, and its product offerings. David Bily of Vantage FX told FX Empire that: The company’s rebrand and new tagline, “Trade your way” represents a…
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Tradefora PLC, a software company with focus on Best Execution, have announced that they have added some of the most popular stock indices to their benchmark reference price index for OTC markets. Newly added instruments cover 12 major stock indices for Asia, EU and the US markets and now expanded the total list to 150+.…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 4, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT The pound reached a six-month high to touch $1.3044 during early Wednesday trading. This follows the latest election poll, which points to a widening of the Conservative lead…
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Retail forex broker and provider of FX and CFD trading, FXCM (NYSE: FXCM) have announced a series of new data products. FXCM have been primarily using their historic trading and execution data for internal purposes. However, the broker is now offering a suite of historic and real time data to suit different trading requirements. FXCM’s core market…
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The following article was written by Giles Coghlan, Chief Currency Analyst at HYCM. A Brief History In some ways, gold is like the ugly duckling of asset classes. Long before economist John Maynard Keynes famously called it the “barbarous relic” there was a history of various commentators referring to the yellow metal as “a relic…
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