Euro is struggling against the US dollar today, heading lower as the economic situation in the eurozone raises questions. Euro is also barely holding its own against the UK pound, struggling…
Posts published in November 2013
Single Corporate Identity: Swissquote To Redirect AC Markets Site To Swissquote.com
Swissquote has today further emphasized its corporate direction of incporporating its acquired subsidiaries under one brand by announcing that URL ac-markets.com will shortly redirect to Swissquote’s…
US Dollar Surges With “Dectaper” on the Table
Today’s surprising payrolls report out of the United States is fueling speculation that the Federal Reserve could begin its taper as early as December. The latest report shows a surge in jobs, and that…
Norwegian Krone Falls on Talks About Budget Reduction
The Norwegian krone dropped today as nation’s officials suggested that a stronger currency may be harmful to the economy, affecting local exports in a negative way. Some drastic measures, like budget reduction,…
Swiss Rises Despite Slowing Growth of Retail Sales
The Swiss franc rose today even though this week’s macroeconomic data, including today’s report on retail sales, was not particularly supportive for the currency. Retail sales rose 1 percent…
Think social trading, think client acquisition and retention. Until recently, social trading networks have been used as a means by which brokers can generate more…
Czech National Bank Intervenes to Weaken Koruna
The Czech koruna was soft today after yesterday’s announcement of the central bank about an intervention aiming at weakening the currency. The bank left its interest rates unchanged. The Czech National Bank left…
Aussie Maintains Weakness on Employment & RBA Statement
The Australian dollar dropped yesterday after poor employment data. Today, the currency maintained losses as the central bank policy statement came out rather dovish and confirmed possibility of an interest rate cut.…
A Black Box Future? TickCOM Launches iSTRAT
Back in January, that Danish financial technology firm TickCOM, was planning on entering the retail market with the launch of automated trading products. Following on…
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has today released updates to the sets of statistics which it produces on a biannual and triennial basis relating to…