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FX CFD Trading: GBP/CAD Falls amid Strong Canadian Data

The Canadian dollar stuck like glue to the Greenback with both GBP/USD and GBP/CAD weakening by a cent and a half over the eight days.
As much as anything this was because the Canadian economic data were so few and far between.
Canada reported a healthy 7.5% increase in building permit issuance, 82k new jobs and [...]

Pullback in Gold CFDs Could See Prices Push Higher

Another push higher maybe on the cards before a correction
Last week’s price action may provide a clue to what lies ahead for the stock indices. Given that the markets saw a minor decline, overall the consolidation taken place over February may see a breakout take place this month.
There are no guarantees that this will [...]

Faltering Chinese Economy Weakens AUD Contracts for Difference

In forex Contracts for Difference trading, the Australian dollar and the Japanese yen were the week’s worst performers among major currencies, the Aussie losing two cents against the pound.
It is nearly 6% off its record high in mid-February.
Little blame can be attached to the weak economic data; they only began to appear Monday morning [...]

Gold CFD Trading Market Pushes Higher on Weaker US Dollar

Gold prices eked out small gains in recent CFD commodities trading activity, on the back of a weaker dollar and as traders sought bargains after the previous session’s sell-off and as the first quarter neared its end.
Bullion ended the quarter up 6.6%, recovering from its drop in the fourth quarter, its first quarterly decline [...]

CFD Trading Markets Close Lower for Third Straight Week on EU Fears

European markets have finished the week lower for the third week in a row as concerns about a prolonged European recession and rapidly rising Spanish bond costs weigh on market sentiment.
Disappointing German Industrial production data for February also fed into the negative sentiment as the positivity that had marked the first quarter of 2012, [...]

Rising Consumer Spending Sees Shares CFDs Rally

World stock markets advanced in recent CFD trading activity, posting double-digit gains for the quarter, as economic reports showing US consumer spending and sentiment still on the rise helped buoy stock prices and undercut the desire to hold bonds.
Shares CFDs on Wall Street ended their strongest quarter in more than two years. Investors flocked [...]

RBS CFD Trading Market Plunges amid Restructuring Operations

European equities have had a choppy morning as residual positive sentiment remains reinforced by the strong US ISM numbers yesterday ebbs away.
While expectations are high for the Nonfarm Payroll numbers on Friday, a correction is quite likely in the interim; as a poor jobs number could easily negate the decent fundamentals seen recently from the [...]

Mining CFD Trading Markets Rally on Strong Chinese PMI Data

The FTSE 100 traded between small losses and flat territory on Monday as financials weighed on the UK Index despite mining stocks receiving a boost by positive data out of China and UK manufacturing data surprisingly rose last month.
It’s the financial sector, such as banks and insurers, which are weighing on the FTSE 100 in [...]

Gold CFDs Rally amid Weakening US Dollar

European markets rebounded today after three successive days of losses to end a negative week on a positive note.
News that EU finance ministers had agreed a temporary increase in the bailout fund to either €700bn or €800bn, depending on who you happen to speak to, barely registered a response from CFD trading markets, given how [...]

Fundamental and Technical Review of Gold and Silver

Gold
If one looks at the fundamental issues, it would seem that the factors that pushed the gold CFD trading market over the US$1,900 per fine ounce level in September 2011 are slowly being brought under control.
The latest economic data from the United States has been largely positive, at least for the moment.
The Euro [...]