Spreadex – Spread Betting Firm Offers Private Jetmiles Loyalty Scheme

Spread betting experts Spreadex have given lift-off to a stylish new loyalty scheme for its top financial and sports customers – Spreadex Private Jetmiles. The St Albans firm is offering its clients the chance to earn time on two luxury Cessna Citation X jets, the world’s fastest civilian aircraft. This uniquely tailored service means Spreadex [...]

Sterling Gets Pounded on the Forex Markets: Currency Trading News

The Financial Fixed Odds update from David Evans, Market Analyst, BetOnMarkets. Yesterday the British Pound was absolutely hammered, there’s no way of sugar coating it. The fall has been attributed to yesterday’s dire business investment figures. Billionaire investor Jim Rogers believes that Sterling could collapse within weeks. Here’s what he said (hat [...]

Bernanke News Boosts Sentiment as Sterling Struggles: Forex Trading Update

The Financial Fixed Odds update from David Evans, Market Analyst, BetOnMarkets. Stock markets were reaching higher yesterday, but it wasn’t exactly plain sailing. US new home sales came in below expected levels and markets looked set to sell off on another round of bad news. However Fed chairman Ben Bernanke provided some cheer with [...]

Currency News – Early Prices Moves and the Day Ahead

The Financial Fixed Odds update from David Evans, Market Analyst, BetOnMarkets. Early Prices Moves For the third time this week, the early trend this morning has been a move against the US dollar and Japanese yen. The top beneficiary of this so far is the Canadian dollar, gaining by 0.31% against the US dollar. [...]

British Pound Rises on Inflation Report

The Financial Fixed Odds update from David Evans, Market Analyst, BetOnMarkets. This morning has started in positive fashion with the British pound rising above today’s inflation report. The GBP/USD tops the early rises with a 0.3% rise this morning. The euro is also making good headway against the US dollar, rising 0.25% Other than this [...]

Spreadex Opens up to Liverpool

Spread betting firm Spreadex has expanded its operations by opening a new office in Liverpool. The firm, whose headquarters are based in St Albans, Hertfordshire, has made the move to help bring the popular form of financial trading to investors in the north-west. The new office is located in The Plaza, in Old Hall Street, [...]

Biggest Forex Moves of 2010

The Financial Fixed Odds update from David Evans, Market Analyst, BetOnMarkets. A couple of weeks ago we showed some tables displaying the biggest winners and losers on the forex markets for 2010. Since then, there have been some interesting moves with a rebound in the Australian Dollar and New Zealand Dollar and an all out [...]

Federal Reserve Announcement Weakens UK Spread Betting Markets

Indices And Company News European bourses opened lower this morning following the US Fed’s decision to raise the discount rate. The Fed’s decision weighed on the financials sector and also led to weakness in commodities and commodity-linked shares. The FTSE 100 index got further hit by a set of weaker than expected UK Retail Sales [...]

US Federal Reserve Raises the Discount Rate

The Financial update from David Evans, BetOnMarkets. From 08:00 to 09:00 today we have a series of French, German and European services and PMI announcements. At 09:30 we have UK retail sales with a drop of 0.5% expected. Keep your eye on the GBP/USD around this time. It could be a good time for a [...]

Big Reversal in Currency Markets

The Financial Fixed Odds update from David Evans, Market Analyst, BetOnMarkets. Yesterday saw a big reversal in currency markets back into the US dollar. This morning we are seeing a similar move back into the yen. It seems that markets can’t shake the fears surrounding Greece and any positive moves from Monday are starting to [...]