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stock market selloff
October 11, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex broker shares caught up in global stock selloff

Shares of leading publicly traded Retail FX and CFD brokers traded down on Wednesday and early Thursday, in concert with the global stock market selloff taking place over the last 24 hours. Led by a dive in US shares on Wednesday which saw the Dow Jones and S&P indices off by more than 3%, and…

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April 24, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Fake AP White House terror tweet closes out many FX traders

Those trading equity indices using high leverage were closed out of positions on the way down. Tuesday's trading produced one of the oddest one-day price charts for the Dow Jones and S&P500 indices ever seen (see below). At about 1:07 EDT (New York time) an AP tweet stated "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and…

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