The following article was written by FXTM Research Analyst Lukman Otunuga. On the first Friday of every month, circa 1.30pm GMT, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its monthly Employment Situation Summary – more widely known as the Jobs Report. The report not only estimates the number of employed and unemployed citizens, but also…
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FX technology company Integral has just released its volumes report for the month of November. The average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totaled $38.3 billion last month. This shows an increase of 10.7% MoM and a rise of 9.4% compared to the same period last year. This recent data shows that Integral’s partners are…
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Australia based Retail FX broker AxiTrader has announced that it has entered a partnership agreement with Knightsbridge Trading Academy. From now on AxiTrader's clients will have access to Knightsbridge Trading Academy’s training courses, developed in conjunction with the London Stock Exchange’s in-house Academy and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI). James Lawrence at…
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New York City-based institutional foreign exchange execution services and data analytics company Cürex Group has announced that Franz Schmidpeter has been promoted to Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Business Development. Mr. Schmidpeter has 25 years’ experience in the global FX markets including in proprietary trading, product development and client relations. Jamie Singleton, Cürex Group…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME) has just announced its November volumes, releasing a record Energy futures and options monthly average daily volume of 3.1 million contracts, as well as Record Energy options monthly average daily volume of 492,000 contracts. FX volumes remained steady MoM in November with 904,000 contracts per day. The complete report…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has just issued an update ahead of entering its close period following the end of the first half of the financial year ending 31 May 2019 (FY19). Revenue in the first half is expected to be around 6% lower than in the same period in FY18,…
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Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has just announced that it has added three new CFD products which clients can now begin trading. The new products are: Commodity CFDs - WHEATF and CORNF, which have the Wheat and Corn Futures as their underlying references; the Index CFD US2000, a cash-based CFD of the Russell 2000…
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One of the more interesting traditions in the forex world as we head toward the year-end is Copenhagen based Retail FX broker Saxo Bank’s annual “Outrageous Predictions”. Of course, the company does not give 100% chance that any of this will surely happen the way they predict it, but if you are a trader, it's…
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Passive investment, or social trading, is one of the fastest-growing trading approaches today. It takes influences from the social media networking model and applies them to investment, driving new growth for a rising number of brokers. Two styles have emerged as the strongest contenders; percentage allocation management module (PAMM), which gives professional money managers access…
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Prokopios Katsaros, Head of Brokerage at Cyprus-Based Prime Brokerage TopFX, has joined LeapRate for an interview, sharing details about the company's 2-in-1 broker solution, its partnership with Forex software provider Spotware, and more. LR: Hi Prokopios, and thanks for joining us today. Please let us know a little more about TopFX’s 2-in-1 solution for brokers, and…
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