Return to Equities Pushes FTSE 100 Spread Betting Higher

Stabilisation is the name of the game today, as investors fight to keep the FTSE 100 spread betting market in positive territory. For now, they appear to be winning that battle. A few disruptions have been dismissed and the market is currently up around 40 points. A broad-based advance is helping the London market this [...]

Equities Spread Betting Markets Slump as Risk Aversion Rises

Yesterday equities were sharply lower on both sides of the Atlantic. Rising bond yields in Italy and Spain, ongoing uncertainty over Greece’s continuation in the Eurozone and a poor pending homes sales report in the US saw financial spread betting investors head for the sidelines ditching riskier asset classes. As we have said quite a [...]

FTSE Spread Trading Market Drops as EC Recapitalisation Plan Fails

London shares lost ground throughout the morning as fears of a Spanish bailout gripped investors. However, there was a brief flurry of excitement as a rehashed story from the Wall Street Journal yesterday caused markets to shoot up. A report from the European Commission said that it recommended direct bank recapitalisations of troubled institutions via [...]

Could Rising Spanish Yields See Financial Spread Betting Markets Receive LTRO-3?

Asia came under renewed selling pressure as once again the ‘one step forward, one step back’ type traction kicked in. There was a real feeling that perhaps Asian equities had found some sort of floor and that we were set to see higher highs; clearly today’s unwind of this confidence has traders even more confused. [...]

Weak Data Limits Gains on US Financial Spread Betting Markets

UK Spread Betting Markets Spanish markets continue to trade lower as fears that Spain will need a bailout continue to grow. These concerns are continuing to act as a drag on core European markets. However, the core markets did manage to shrug off a denial by a Chinese news agency that reports that China was [...]

Euro Spreads Weaken in Asian Session Despite Recapitalisation of Greek Banks

With US financial spread betting markets closed for the Memorial Day holiday, the focus of traders was (perhaps unfortunately) solely on Europe.

Euro Spreads Hit 22 Month Lows Despite German Q1 GDP Expansion

The Spread Betting Markets: The Week in Review Messages were mixed last week as the ‘will they won’t they’ Grexit saga continued. Initially former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos stated that preparations for a Greek exit were being considered and that the risk was real. However, the day after this he remarked that there were actually [...]

FX Spread Betting: EUR/USD Rallies on News of Spanish Banking Rescue Plan

It seems the equity and forex markets have become a derivative of the Greek polls, with the weekend numbers suggesting pro-bailout party New Democracy pulling ahead, thus causing a mild ‘risk on’ theme through Asia. You can also add Ireland to that mix as well, with a new poll suggesting that 57% plan to approve [...]

Financial Spread Betting Guide to Speculating on Facebook Shares

Where to Spread Bet on Facebook You can trade on spread betting markets such as Facebook with spread betting companies like: FinancialSpreads Spreadex CMC Markets Note that Facebook had its IPO last week, on Friday 18 May 2012. As a result, whilst spread betting companies usually allow you to speculate on a market to [...]

Financial Spread Betting Guide to Trading SABMiller Shares

Where to Spread Bet on SABMiller You can trade on spread betting markets such as SAB Miller with spread betting companies like: FinancialSpreads Spreadex 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 SABMiller [...]