Irish spread betting firm WorldSpreads is to launch an office in Scotland this week, despite its bigger rival CMC Markets shutting up shop north of the border in March, a little more than a year after it opened.
Irish spread betting firm WorldSpreads is to launch an office in Scotland this week, despite its bigger rival CMC Markets shutting up shop north of the border in March, a little more than a year after it opened.
For all who wonder which shares are being geared for the next invisible hand lift off, I present an email distributed earlier today by CMC Markets
After spending almost a year in beta form, Sporting Index, the sports spread betting operator, has officially unveiled its revamped website.
Dublin-listed financial spread-betting firm Worldspreads says it has decided to exit its small sports spread betting division after a difficult year for the unit.
IG Group said this morning that revenues increased 35% to £62 million for the three month period ended February 28th 2008…
So now we have FXCM trying spread betting – only it is limited to forex at the moment…
ShortsandLongs – the only spread betting company to offer free guaranteed stops to all of its clients – has had a print advertisement banned by the Advertising Standards Authority after they received one complaint which said it was glamorising spread betting.
London Capital Group, the online spreadbetting, forex and derivatives broking company which operates flagship site has signed contracts with Saxo Bank to provide the bank with a white label spread trading product.
Short selling positions on retail shares have almost doubled between November and January, as investors bet on further gloom for the sector…
It has been reported on the Financial Times that Monday will see the launch of Victor Chandler Financials, a joint venture with Worldspreads, the Dublin-based spread betting company, and he plans to initially start offering the service to the UK portion of Victor Chandler’s 1.7m global clients.
Spread bettors have been diving into Irish shares since the beginning of 2008. Unfortunately the ISEQ Index has lost 66.31% of its value year to date…
IG Index circulated the following letter regarding maintenance of margin requirements…
A number of financial authorities have imposed emergency measures outlawing fresh short-selling of financial stocks and any increase in existing short positions across all types of financial products…
Spread betting volumes more than doubled in the first half of 2008, compared with a year earlier, even as share trading volumes fell…
IG Group, the UK’s biggest spread-betting company, saw ‘no signs’ of a slowdown in customer activity in spite of a deteriorating UK economic outlook as its full-year earnings rose 40 per cent.