The global economy is on the edge, with Swiss billionaire Mr. Felix Zulauf predicting rough times ahead due to widespread distortions in global markets. Fears of a new global crash are very real in some quarters, as debts rise, the dollar climbs, and asset prices climb into unsustainable territory. As [...]
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has become a huge headache for the United States, with the Chinese bank set to rival global institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Formed late last year, the multilateral development bank will provide finance for a range of infrastructure projects [...]
The world's biggest futures market operator will be shutting down nearly all of its open-outcry futures pits by the 2nd of July, indicating the closing bell on a once-rowdy tradition that has been in the lows since the rise of online trading. The decision by CME Group Inc., announced last [...]
Can it be tapped into $5.3 trillion forex market and cash in? More than 95 % of the currency trades are basically based on pure speculation. It is not really something to consider unless one is ready to take on the stock market, but can be productive if studied well. This [...]
Global markets were able to serve up a cascading of events in 2015 so far from the fall of oil price and euro, to rallying government bonds; from the removal of Swiss franc floor to the shocking election results in Greece. It appears as if European markets will be setting [...]
Spread betting and foreign exchange platforms were rushing to regain their positions after the Swiss franc's soaring movement last week. Bidders are aligning themselves through the books of Alpari, which is a Russian-owned spread better which crashed last week as the franc's movements wiped out some clients and drained the [...]
Financial services firms that are providing CFDs on Swiss Instruments were playing with the lack of liquidity during the middle of one of the biggest currency moves in the Swiss franc. The CHF's immense drop affected its peers with shares and the benchmark SMI index faltering which resulted with CFD [...]
Investing has become more intricate than a simple purchase and selling of assets. Investors can hedge their respective portfolios much more efficiently in anticipation of more positive returns hence, analysis and strategies must be used so that there will be better facilitation such as outcome. Before adopting an investment strategy, [...]
Hedging currency exposure has been a saving grace. The euro had an uneven ride last year and most did not anticipate this year to bring much respite. Frail growth, credit transaction and a very real threat of a deflationary spiral are igniting mounting expectations of a quantitative easing. Economic despair [...]
Drax, being the second biggest coal power station in Europe has a determined corporate strategy which is primarily based on gradually converting a number of its generating units in order to become a predominantly biomass-fuelled power generator that is contingent and reliant on wood pellets as replacement of coal. Of [...]
