Spread Betting Investors Sell Risk Assets amid Growing Political Concerns

The Week in Review: There were various factors causing a drag on European equities last week preventing Europe from riding on the coattails of impressive US earnings. Most governmental elections cause a stir in the markets so when President Sarkozy was defeated in the first round of the French Presidential Elections, spread betting investors became [...]

DAX Spread Betting Index to Open Higher on Increased Risk Appetite

Friday saw European and US financial spread betting markets again pushing higher on increasing risk appetite and a begrudging acknowledgement from Germany that Europe might need to be more flexible in pursuing growth. Also, a weaker-than-expected US GDP reading again reinvigorated the debate as to if and when the Fed would be required to add [...]

Spread Trading Guide to Speculating on ARM Holdings Shares

Where to Spread Bet on ARM Holdings You can trade on spread betting markets such as ARM Holdings with spread betting companies like: Financial Spreads GFT CMC Markets To see which companies offer 24 hour trading, new account offers, stop losses and trading charts see Spread Betting Companies. How to Spread Bet on [...]

Online Spread Trading Guide to Speculating on Amazon Shares

Where to Spread Bet on Amazon You can trade on spread betting markets such as Amazon with spread betting companies like: Capital Spreads GFT CityIndex To see which companies offer 24 hour trading, new account offers, stop losses and trading charts see Spread Betting Companies. How to Spread Bet on Amazon If [...]

Financial Spread Betting: Spain Downgraded as Unemployment Rises

Spanish stocks suffered strong losses as trading opened in Europe after Standard & Poors downgraded Spain’s credit rating by two notches to BBB+. The country fell last night from a previous A rating and data showed that the Spanish unemployment rate increased to 24.4 percent, pressuring Spanish stocks and pushing up bond yields. The downgrade [...]

Positive Fed Comments Support Online Spread Betting Markets

European and US markets (with the exception of the CAC) were again convincingly stronger yesterday. Throughout the session, equities, risk currencies and commodities were broadly higher, carrying on the momentum established in the previous session, courtesy of supportive words from the Fed and a string of better-than-expected corporate earnings. While a rise in the four-week [...]

Financial Spread Betting Markets Push Higher on Positive US Earnings

European and US financial spread betting markets were convincingly higher yesterday, as positive US earnings and the Fed’s pledge to continue to support the US economic recovery trumped ongoing fears over the European debt crisis. There appears to be a growing feeling that all of Europe’s ‘skeletons’ are now out of the closet with there [...]

Increase in Rebellious FOMC Members to Weaken EUR/USD Forex Spreads

Apple jumps $40 on strong earnings, after testing its 55-day moving average for the first time since Dec 20, the day when the ECB announced its LTRO-1. Will today’s jump coincide with more dovish central bank action such as today’s FOMC statement? The 2 most important items drawing immediate market scrutiny in today’s FOMC statement/projections [...]

Apple Rebound Boosts NASDAQ Spread Betting Index

Global markets once again succumbed to ‘risk on/risk off’ trade as strong US earnings and a decent Dutch auction calmed some anxiety towards Europe. However, these are markets which just don’t seem to want to trend in either direction. One gets the sense of frustration, given there isn’t much in the price action to encourage [...]

Shares Spread Betting Markets Rebound amid Clean European Auctions

In a much more subdued trading session, markets have stabilised and pulled back some of yesterday’s losses as investors turn their attention back to company earnings. This came after this morning’s European bond auctions got away without too many hitches. UK Markets The biggest gainer in London has been hedge fund Man Group bouncing back [...]