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Galaxy Fold: Future or Gimmick Feature? - EMEA Brief 21 Feb
MichaelaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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New platform feature: new visibility icon
DanielaIG posted a blog entry in IG Product Updates,
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Ford Pulls Brakes on Brazil Factory - EMEA Brief 20 Feb
MichaelaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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UK REAL ESTATE
ArthurHouse posted a topic in Shares and ETFs,
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HSBC misses earnings expectations- EMEA Brief 19 Feb
KatherineIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Australian markets in focus - APAC brief 19 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Australian markets in focus: The Asian session will similarly quiet today, before markets return to normal transmission this evening. Arguably, it’ll be a day with attention directed to developments in Australian markets: the key data releases pertain to the RBA and its Monetary Policy Minutes, and ASX heavy-weight BHP, which reports its earnings today. Both the Australian Dollar and ASX200 will enjoy special focus this morning. The Aussie Dollar has pulled back below the 0.7150 handle after rallying beyond that mark on the back of trade-war optimism. The ASX200 will be more interesting for observers: having leapt from the gates yesterday morning to break above 6100 resistance, the index once again failed to prove its bullish mettle, closing trade yesterday at 6089.
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Post in US 500 - Potential Shorting Opportunity
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Post in Bitcoin - Price Behaviour
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Dividend Adjustments 18 Feb - 25 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Bear Bull Historical Chart
Caseynotes posted a topic in Indices and Macro Events,
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Asia Markets Rise as Trade Talks Move to Washington - EMEA Brief 18 Feb
JoeIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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President’s Day: APAC brief 18 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Where does Trump want the market? The risk is that President Trump’s temperament and agenda can be difficult to gauge. He giveth to the market, and he taketh, depending on his personal, political priorities. For stages of his Presidency, Trump needn’t pay close attention to the US share market: he inherited improving economic conditions, then fuelled it with massive tax cuts, and stood back to observe the records falling in US stock indices. His hawkishness on international trade and bellicosity towards domestic political wrangling brought much of it undone, as the US President turned a cyclical slowdown in China into a possible trigger for recession in Asia and Europe. The global growth outlook is as downbeat as it has been in several years, and this has manifested in market-pricing.
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Another blow to economic growth - EMEA Brief 15 Feb
DanielaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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A little bit of everything - APAC brief 15 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Markets immune to trade-war headlines: Fresh trade war headlines are at the top of the list of headline risks, however in contrast to what’s been seen in the past, the reactions have been muted. Arguably, and barring any news that hints at a true resolution in the trade war, stories that the US and China are getting along just fine are becoming (relatively) ineffectual. Yesterday saw the news that the Trump administration is considering pushing the White House imposed March 1 deadline for trade negotiations back another 60 days. The developments saw the standard risk assets shift – Australian Dollar-up, Asian stocks-up, US futures-up, commodities-up – but compared to the massive relief rallies seen in the past, the price action indicated a market that’s wanting more than just piecemeal developments in trade-negotiations.
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Post in Bonds and Gilts
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China's exports beat expectations for January - EMEA Brief 14 Feb
DanielaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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ASX missed the party yesterday - APAC brief 14 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
CBA and CSL weighed on the ASX200: In an index like the ASX200, which is quite top heavy, when 2 of your top 5 weightiest stocks underperform markedly, registering a day in the green is always going to be a challenge. Other measures of how the market performed for the day present more favourably for the Australian share market. Breadth was respectable at about 60 per cent, for one. There was another failure by the ASX200 to break resistance at 6100, which might add to the view the market has gassed-out in the short term and is due for a pullback. Conditions for medium term upside remain in place nevertheless, especially if the prevailing macro-themes in the market, ranging from central bank policy to the trade-war, continue to fall the way of the Bulls.
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Santander unpleasantly surprises credit investors - EMEA Brief 13 Feb
IG-Andi posted a blog entry in Market News,
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New headlines to chase - APAC brief 13 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Short-term bullishness depends on Trump: It can be for some an uncomfortable thought: the key variable for both the US government funding and trade-was issues is the mercurial US President Donald Trump.
The US President, it must be said, has outwardly advocated for a resolution to each concern. The worry for markets may be though whether Trump maintains his balanced temperament on the matters, and that there isn't an ulterior motive held by the President on either issue that could subvert the market's positivity. There isn't a clear timeline, other than those which have been imposed upon the President, to arrive at a decision regarding border funding or the trade-truce extension. Traders are taking bullish positions, but while doing so must surely be in a heightened state of vigilance, at least until firm validation for the rally arrives.
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UK Axes Criticised Ferry Contract - EMEA Brief 12 Feb
IGAaronC posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Settled start to the week - APAC brief 12 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
Traders awaiting tradeable leads: The data docket is stacked to the end of the week, so perhaps it'll be another couple of days of listless trade before global markets really start to reshuffle the deck. Of course, a surprise could ignite some excitement; but naturally that's inherently unpredictable and difficult to position for. Chinese markets returned to the fray yesterday, adding that lost liquidity from markets. Japan was offline instead, creating some choppy trade in the CHF in very early trade. The reintroduction of Chinese markets may well have soothed the bull's concerns temporarily. After a week away, during which plenty of market moving events occurred, Chinese traders felt it fitting to ignore the noise, and jumped back into stocks, to deliver a 1.82 per cent gain for the CSI300 yesterday.
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Interest rates pull back?
PandaFace posted a topic in General Trading Strategy Discussion,
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Dividend Adjustments 11 Feb - 18 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Lacklustre Lunar New Year - EMEA Brief 11 Feb
MichaelaIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
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Facets of the global growth story - APAC brief 11 Feb
MaxIG posted a blog entry in Market News,
The many facets of the global growth story: There’s no shortage of causes for this looming slowdown – and in the financial media, each one is getting a good exercising. The trade-war remains the popular one, which is providing a convenient explanation for the confluence of confusing and complex causes for China’s recent economic malaise. This thread gets pulled-on to describe why Europe is feeling the pinch too, being the geography wedged in the middle of the trade-war’s heavyweight combatants. Throw in a sprinkling of Brexit anxiety and internal political unrest in the continent and that’s the story driving Europe’s economic outlook. The US economy is still humming, and the data coming out of the states is still showing a robust economy. Nevertheless, price action says that’s being somewhat ignored, with yields betraying an underling anxiety about economic health.
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