Tag: EUR/USD

July 06, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

GBPUSD drops below 1.28 as British Pound slide continues

Sterling sinks to new depths on Brexit anxiety, dropping to new 31 year lows around the 1.2800 level against the US dollar and even lower against the yen and the euro. The combination of some Brexit effects already starting to become definite and this week’s slowdown in recent economic data may seem a bit like…

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June 21, 2016 BY Mike Fox

DMM FX halts trading in GBP and EUR pairs

DMM FX Australia, who is closing up shop this summer as reported by LeapRate back in May is taking no extra risks before winding down. Today they notified current clients that due to an increased risk following the Brexit referendum and to further protect clients’ positions during this event, trading will be suspended from 07:10hrs (server time) for…

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January 20, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CME Group registers record volume of Eurodollar options

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just announced it marked a trading volume record for Eurodollar options yesterday, January 19, 2016. On Tuesday – January 19th, Eurodollar options trading volume reached 4,279,584 contracts, beating the previous record of 3,493,675 set on June 24, 2013. Open interest in Eurodollar options also increased by 1.6…

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January 07, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CME Group reduces minimum price increment on EUR/USD futures to half ticks

Today CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) informed us that they've reduced their tick size on EUR/USD futures, so traders can reduce their execution costs. Starting on January 10, CME is officially reducing the minimum price increment for their standard-size EUR/USD futures from 1-pip ($12.50 per contract) to 1/2-pip ($6.25 per contract). Effective Sunday, January 10 (trade date Monday, January 11), the minimum price…

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December 09, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

EURUSD back above 1.10 for first time in over a month

It used to be that a risk-off trading environment meant a rush to buy US Dollars as the 'safe haven' currency. Not so much any more. For the first time since early November, the Euro is worth more than USD $1.10, as a very jittery market continues to dump commodities (in particular oil) and equities, and…

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November 17, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex: Euro suffering Paris hangover, drifting lower Tuesday

A good portion of the investing world will continue to follow the fallout from Friday's ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris for the coming days and weeks, especially if EU governments ramp up their commitments to a real ground war on ISIS. That, of course, remains to be seen. But in the near term, the financial…

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