Tuesday, April 16, 2024

FP Markets Increases its Commodity Offering, Adding Brent Oil, Cotton and Sugar Futures

The move allows traders and investors at FP Markets to capitalise on new opportunities in the commodities sector and increase the options available for portfolio diversification. Complementing its ...

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January 08, 2024

Storms and strikes not flooding the positive outlook on the UK economy

As traders recently turned bullish on the sterling for the first time in three months, analysts believe the UK economy, which spent most of 2023 on the rim of recession, is on the rise. Bloomberg r...

November 21, 2023

UK borrowing reaches record levels, topped only by stats from 1993 & 2020

The ONS’s figures also compared the same period from 2022, where net borrowing registered lower than this October’s figures. Not only this, but it also sits as the second highest borrowing figu...

July 27, 2023

Is the Fed done hiking? Markets think so, Powell doesn’t

Market Expects No Further Hikes in 2023 According to the CME’s FedWatch tool, market participants now overwhelmingly expect that the Fed’s hikes for 2023 are over. There is currently a 78% prob...

July 25, 2023

Weekly data: traders concentrate on the Fed and ECB

The focus for the Fed’s press conference on Wednesday night is on whether there’s any hint about a hike in the fourth quarter. Traders mostly expect this to be the last hike of this cycle for t...

Forex News

April 16, 2024 — BY PureContent

FP Markets Increases its Commodity Offering, Adding Brent Oil, Cotton and Sugar Futures

April 16, 2024

Trump Media Continues To Slide Amid Fears

This followed a turbulent week of trading when the parent company of the Truth Social platform lost over 20% in a sin...

April 15, 2024

Millennium Management Accused of Stealing a Trading Strategy

It seems likely to lead to a bitter court dispute. Jane Street Group has accused Millennium Management of using its i...

April 12, 2024

China Tianrui Group Cement Stops Trading After Sell-off Annihilates Market Value

This action, which occurred during the final 15 minutes of local trading time on Tuesday, 9 April 2024, sunk China Ti...

April 12, 2024

Link Funds Solutions’ Failures Listed By The FCA

The investigation covered the period between 31 July 2018 and 3 June 2019, which was the period when the fund was sus...

April 11, 2024

ACCC Welcomes New Merger Rules In Australia

These new rules will align the country’s merger practices with those of developed economies. Coming into eff...

April 11, 2024

Jack Ma Statement Boosts Alibaba Shares

CNBC reported that this public address to Alibaba employees was the second in recent months. In an attempt to restore...

April 10, 2024

S&P 500 Gets Its Highest Stock Forecast So Far This Year

This is the highest mark so far and, according to Yahoo Finance, reflects an estimated 6% jump from the opening bench...

April 10, 2024

Moderna Jumps 6% On Vaccine News

MRNA shares rose as high as 9% during the day, continuing their recent steady climb. This was enough for MRNA to lead...

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July 11, 2023

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Interview: Brokeree’s Julia Ilichyova talks about expansion in EMEA and APAC+ and growing the team

LR: Two years ago, we talked about how the team behind Brokeree has developed since the company’s inception. Can you tell me how the team has grown and evolved in the past two years? Julia: Over ...

June 15, 2023

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Exclusive Interview: Eduardo Alves talks about driving strategic excellence at 4XC

LR: What motivated you to join 4XC as the Chief Strategic Officer? Eduardo: Choosing to join 4XC came from a deep personal connection with Joao Monteiro, the company's founder, and our shared visio...

March 08, 2023

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Exclusive: Focus on women in tech on International Women's Day

Daphne Munuera, Client Services Officer, iSAM Securities LR: Can you tell me a little bit about your career? – "For the majority of my career, I've worked in the finance sector. My first job was ...

March 07, 2023

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Exclusive: Hantec Markets' Hayel Abu-Hamdan talks about LATAM expansion, market expectations for 2023 and more

LR: Hantec Markets expanded in LATAM with a new Chile office in October last year. What does that mean for the company? Hayel: Our expansion into LATAM is the latest example of our company’s cont...

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Cryptocurrency

April 15, 2024 — BY Elizabeth Anderson

Bitcoin Climbs Back After Crypto Market Fall Of Almost 10%

This is reportedly the largest sell-off of the world’s most prominent crypto asset experienced in over a year. Despite falling below $62,000 at one stage during Saturday’s trading, BTC gained back 3.9%, which pushed it past the $64,000 mark on Sunday, 14 April 2024. At one point, this virtual currency spiked as much as 8.3%.…

April 08, 2024

Coinbase Court Case Back on the Cards

They based this decision on the fact that the judge had used the December 2021 user agreement, but that didn't take into account the fact that earlier versions had used different language in some s...

February 28, 2024

Prominent Buyers Purchasing Cryptocurrencies

The world’s largest cryptocurrency, which currently has a market value of just over $1tn, ended Tuesday trading at $57,071. From the start of February, bitcoin gained 32%, putting it on track for...

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February 16, 2024

Coinbase Stock Rallies After Returning to Profitability on Bitcoin ETFs

The latter half of 2023 saw a surge in investor interest in major cryptocurrency tokens, spurred by expectations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) approval of spot bitcoin ETFs...

January 25, 2024

Bitcoin ETFs can see the cryptocurrency shoot through the roof

This economist was also correct in his bullish S&P 500 approach, despite everyone anticipating recession and stock price drops. Lee said this index would end at 4,750 in 2023. It closed at 4,76...

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March 27, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

SWIFT Plans New Central Bank Digital Currency Platform for Cross-Border Transfers

This solution, known as the connector, reportedly enables the seamless incorporation of the use of CBDCs into business practices. Thirty-eight institutions participated in the experiment, including central commercial banks and markets. These included global leaders such as Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, ANZ and Citibank. The outcomes showed the innovation simplifies and expedites trade flows, promotes…

March 25, 2024

Apple Loses Value Over Regulator Fears

This took the loss in the year so far to 11%. Apple is no longer the world’s most valuable company, with Microsoft (MSFT) now having a market capitalisation of over $3tn, while Apple has slipped ...

March 25, 2024

China to Stop Using Intel and AMD Chips in Government Devices

The country also wants to sidestep Windows, Microsoft Corporation’s (MSFT) widely used operating system, and other internationally produced database software. The guidelines reportedly stipulated...

March 21, 2024

Co-Founders of Inflection AI Join Microsoft

Suleyman also co-founded DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) outfit bought by Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOG) in 2014. Industry experts believe that this move fortifies Microsoft’s reputati...

January 24, 2024

Netflix’s surge in subscribers boosted 2023 Q4 revenue to $8.83bn

In 2022, the company forecasted a 9 million subscriber gain, which would bring approximately 30 million net additions for the full year. NFLX’s revenue reports surpassed Wall Street’s predictio...

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