Staff at the Bank of England will today (Tuesday 1 August) start a three day strike at the bank. Members of the UK’s largest union, Unite, are holding a demonstration outside the bank’s London office at 8.15 am today to mark the start of a historic strike over pay. The Labour shadow chancellor of the…
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Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published their Forex volume metrics for June 2017, with spot FX volumes rising to $93 billion, up 9.4% MoM from May’s $85 billion. This was the platform's best performing month since March for spot volumes (see chart above) when the US dollar lost a bit of steam due to a Dovish Fed and…
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Japan Exchange Group just released its trading overview in July 2017. Cash Equity Market In July 2017, the daily average trading value for the TSE 1st Section (domestic common stocks) was JPY 2.5582 trillion. In the ETF market, monthly trading value was JPY 2.3482 trillion. Derivatives Market In July 2017, total derivatives trading volume was…
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Neptune, the Fixed Income network for real-time “axe” indications, just announced the addition of Rabobank (Rabo) and TD Securities “TD” to its network and board. Rabo and TD become the 23rd and 24th participating banks on the network. The Neptune network provides a venue for investors to consume the highest quality bond axes/inventory data from…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange just released its volumes report for the month of July 2017. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 149,021 ( + 4.2% MoM / - 11.2% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 7,451. The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 2,307,283 ( -…
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FCA regulated CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has indicated that in accordance with the terms of its Share Buyback Programme announced on 2 June 2017, the Company acquired 11,313 ordinary shares of ILS 0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") on 31 July 2017 at a price of 630.27 pence per Share. The…
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The expanded rollout of MetaTrader 5 (MT5) has reached Australia, with leading ASIC regulated forex broker, Vantage FX, announcing that they are now offering the next generation MetaQuotes platform to their clients. MT5 has now activated all signal trading, expert advisor trading and most importantly has the in-built capability for clients to hedge their trading…
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ASIC regulated Retail Forex broker IC Markets has announced today that it registered a record month for FX trading volumes in July 2017, at USD $313 billion. The company also hit a daily volume record of USD $21 billion on the 21st of July, as the USD slid to its lowest level in over a year.…
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GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported that July trading volumes in its system were virtually unchanged from June, on both a total and average daily trading volume basis. GTX saw total trading volumes of $268.6 billion in July, or $12.8 billion ADV, versus $270.1 billion…
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Leading off our reports of FX trading volumes for July by leading Retail and Institutional eFX platforms, Forex ECN FastMatch data shows a 9% drop in activity from June volumes. FX trading volumes at FastMatch averaged $18.0 billion daily in July - the company's second consecutive monthly volume decline - as compared to $19.7 billion…
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