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If you have a retirement portfolio, chances are it has a lot of equity exposure. Your biggest fear probably relates to the capital losses that could occur. Unlike your house, its value isn’t marked to market each day like the stocks you own, so the latter gets a lot more attention in terms of how […]

The US can always pay its bills because it has the power to “print” money. The Federal Reserve controls money creation in the US.  So even if the US has bad finances, as it does – i.e., it spends more than it earns and has more liabilities than assets – the country can always satisfy […]

European broker nextmarkets is democratising investing with carefully designed platforms, features and services that aim to make the entire trading ordeal more accessible and successful. Read on to discover truly free stocks and crypto trading and a personal, sophisticated experience. The nextmarkets Mission The German-based brokerage firm promises commission-free investing, with absolutely no custody, order, […]

The innovative and world-renowned multi-asset, social trading brokerage firm, eToro, has recently added two more cryptos to its impressive range of tradeable assets. Polkadot (DOT) and Filecoin (FIL), the fourth largest and 24th most valuable cryptocurrencies, respectively, have joined the roster of 29 other major digital assets on the eToro platform. “We Are Committed To […]

The Australian-based broker, ACY, is appealing to cryptocurrency fans with the addition of four new tokens to its derivatives offering. The firm has included Chainlink, Stellar Lumen, Polkadot and EOS in their list, adding to the well-established cohort of Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. All of the tokens can be traded against the […]

Swissquote is turning its eye to the European trading market with big plans for its crypto and CFD offering. The company is also refining its Advanced Trader Platform, introducing further analysis tools and user-friendly features. New Crypto Services Swissquote has provided crypto trading for several years but now plans to introduce crypto lending and staking […]

This article was first published in September 2021. The shift from the low-interest era to a higher-interest era began in late 2021, with the Bank of England delivering the first post-Covid19 rate hike among major developed economies in December 2021. In the United States, the Federal Reserve began an aggressive tightening cycle in March 2022, […]

Bitcoin is well-known for its volatility. For example, in 2021 alone it more than doubled from January through the middle of April, then fell by more than 50 percent in the next three months before bouncing about 65 percent from July to August. Then it began treading water right around the $50,000 mark.   Bitcoin […]

We are in unique times in the markets given the current limitations of where we are in the economic cycle. We are in a situation where there is limited room with traditional monetary policy tools should the economy turn down. As covered in a different article, there are three main equilibriums that markets are always […]

OANDA Global Markets has once again upgraded its trading services, this time bringing in the most popular CFD trading platform in the world, MetaTrader 5 (MT5). This is an updated version of the second-most popular platform, MetaTrader 4 (MT4), and can be used as a desktop client, mobile app web-based platform. MT5 On OANDA OANDA’s […]