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COVID-19 Pushes Trading Platforms to Cut Leverage And Adjust Margins

COVID-19 Pushes Trading Platforms to Cut Leverage And Adjust Margins

Uncertain times require bold moves. The economic panic caused by the COVID-19 has caused extreme volatility in investment markets such as Forex, futures, and stocks in the last month.... Read more.

CMC Reports Positive Figures For Q3 2020, Partners With Your Bourse

CMC Reports Positive Figures For Q3 2020, Partners With Your Bourse

CMC Markets, which provides online trading solutions to retail traders as well as B2B platform technologies, released on Thursday its trading update f... Read more.

IG Group’s H1 FY2020 Revenue in Line With Forecasts

IG Group’s H1 FY2020 Revenue in Line With Forecasts

IG Group, the owner of spread betting and CFD trading platform IG, recently published its results for the six months to November. The period represent... Read more.

IG Group’s Revenue Likely Hit £250 million in H1 FY2020

IG Group’s Revenue Likely Hit £250 million in H1 FY2020

London-based IG Group, which operates a CFD trading and spread betting platform, released an update for the first half of the fiscal year 2020.... Read more.

CMC Markets Launches 3 Commodity Indexes

CMC Markets Launches 3 Commodity Indexes

CMC Markets, which operates a trading platform for forex and contract of difference (CFD) trading, recently listed three new commodity indices. Thus, ... Read more.

Admiral Markets Adds 7 New CFDs

Admiral Markets Adds 7 New CFDs

Admiral Markets, which operates a Forex and contracts for difference (CFD) trading platform, announced last week the launch of seven new CFDs, which r... Read more.

Saxo Bank Hits Record Profit for 2018

Saxo Bank Hits Record Profit for 2018

Danish investment bank and brokerage service Saxo Bank released its annual financial report for 2018. The broker hit a record annual profit thanks to ... Read more.

CMC Markets Share Price Loses 20% on Updated Revenue Forecast

CMC Markets Share Price Loses 20% on Updated Revenue Forecast

London-based CMC Markets Plc, an online trading platform provider, announced on Friday, February 22, 2019, that it expected a bigger decline in fourth... Read more.

Plus500 Stock Loses 60% in Less Than a Week

Plus500 Stock Loses 60% in Less Than a Week

Israel-based CFD trading platform provider Plus500 Ltd (LON: PLUS) has had a terrible month so far, with its share price declining by over 63% since F... Read more.

IG Group Subsidiary up And Running in The US

IG Group Subsidiary up And Running in The US

It appears that globally-known brokers, IG Group, have been playing a clever game, which has enabled them to extend their empire into the strictly-reg... Read more.

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