Stock Trading News

Pepperstone has expanded its product range with spread betting and CFDs on leading UK shares. Previously, only US shares were available with the ASIC-regulated broker. The new asset class demonstrates the firm’s drive to deliver a suite of trading instruments for an increasingly global client. German and Australian shares are also available to trade. This new […]

Increasingly, decision-making in the markets is done through artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and algorithmic decision-making.  Back in the 1990s and even into the 2000s and today, much analysis on financial markets and securities was done on spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel. That’s now changing to more complex ways of analyzing the world. The human […]

An ESG ETF is designed to focus on the environmental, social, and governance factors of each company in the fund. According to Morningstar data, funds that seek to incorporate information on an investment’s sustainability and overall societal impacts – and select from those that meet specific criteria – have largely outperformed their traditional counterparts over […]

Leading forex broker, XTB, has announced details of their annual training event. Experienced speakers are lined up and ready to share their trading knowledge with aspiring investors. Read on for a breakdown of the schedule and to register. Investing Day Schedule The training event on April 29, 2021, will give existing and emerging traders practical […]

Top-rated forex broker, AvaTrade, has upgraded its instruments and trading conditions with new equity baskets and tighter spreads on popular cryptos, including Ethereum, Bitcoin Gold and Ripple. The changes are the latest in a string of improvements to the AvaTrade offering. AvaTrade Rolls Out New Products AvaTrade has gone live with new indices that track […]

The rise behind high-flying assets like SPACs (blank check companies), cryptocurrencies, and NFTs is related to the environment we’re in and the large-scale liquidity that has caused a rise in all asset classes.  Interest rates in an economy are a function of nominal growth rates.  In Western economies (the United States, developed Europe, and Japan), […]

Over the years we’ve seen exceptionally volatile markets during certain periods. 1929 and 2008 were fundamentally brought on by debt crises. Discerning sophisticated investors could have done the calculations to understand that there was a lot of debt coming due that would not be paid back. They could have adjusted their positions accordingly to benefit […]

Eventual stagflation could be a risk for the economy and markets and one that’s currently vastly under-discounted. We’re in a situation where the central bank has pushed a lot of liquidity into the markets and brought up the financial economy (i.e., prices of financial assets) while the real economy (i.e., aggregate transactions volume in goods […]

The stock market is an important part of the overall functioning of the economic system. The stock market – and capital markets more generally – affect the real economy as they provide the money and credit that the real economy uses to make goods and services. The financial economy leads the real economy. The stock […]

Top online broker, AvaTrade, is the latest big name to eye London for an IPO in the coming months. While precise timelines are yet to be confirmed, initial reports suggest the Dublin-based broker could be valued at between £500 million and £700 million. AvaTrade IPO On The Horizon The popular trading broker has selected JP […]