It’s was a fairly quiet European session yesterday with CFD share trading investors mulling the next move after the strong gains of recent weeks.
IMF Chief Lagarde’s weekend warning about the risks to the global economy of rising oil prices saw the market adopt a wait and see attitude yesterday, while a lack of new [...]
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Lack of QE Boosts S&P CFD Trading Index to Four Year High
After the Federal Reserve acknowledged recent signs of strength in the US economy but offered little in the way of clues for the likelihood of further monetary easing last Tuesday, US markets continue to climb.
The S&P hit its highest level in almost four years, while commodity markets were dragged down heavily on the back [...]
Risk Aversion on Greek PSI Sees FTSE 100 CFDs Fall 2%
The FTSE 100 fell nearly 2% on Tuesday into the close to hit a new four week low and broke below the 5800 level as risk aversion weighed on heavyweight stock sectors in Europe.
This came on concerns over the looming Greek PSI deadline and a slowdown in global growth.
The FTSE 100 suffered its worst [...]
CFD Trading Markets Remain Worried Despite New Greek Bailout Deal
News of a second bailout package for Greece, while greeted with some relief by CFD trading markets, won’t likely herald an end to the crisis that has dragged on investor sentiment over the past three years.
The new bailout undertakes to cut Greece’s debt to GDP ratio to 120.5% of GDP by 2020, by imposing bigger [...]
Will a Strong US Dollar Hinder S&P 500 CFD Trading Index?
Of the developed economies, the USA did not fare too badly during 2011. The Wall Street 30 Index started 2011 at around 11,600 and ended the year at just over 12,200.
Although the S&P CFD trading index finished the year rather flat, the Dow Jones managed to pick up 4.7% during over the same period.
Consumer [...]
Forex CFDs: Greek Bailout Agreement Sees Euro Push Higher
It was another turbulent week for the CFD FX trading markets last week, with the agreement over the much anticipated Greek bailout pushing the single currency up despite the uncertainty in terms of execution and potential success.
The implementation of the austerity measures remains in question and when one adds in the lack of details on [...]