Posts Tagged ‘spread betting’

Betting firm spreads its wings to Scotland

June 7, 2009Rosemary-Gallagher No Comments »

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.

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Shorting These Stocks is Now Verboten

May 25, 2009admin No Comments »

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

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Sporting Index Launches Revamped Site

May 21, 2009admin No Comments »

After spending almost a year in beta form, Sporting Index, the sports spread betting operator, has officially unveiled its revamped website.

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Worldspreads to drop Sport Betting Division

March 31, 2009admin No Comments »

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.

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IG Group tumbles as mature markets slow

March 10, 2009admin No Comments »

IG Group said this morning that revenues increased 35% to £62 million for the three month period ended February 28th 2008…

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FXCM UK Now Offers Spread Betting

March 6, 2009admin No Comments »

So now we have FXCM trying spread betting – only it is limited to forex at the moment…

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ShortsandLongs Advert Banned for Glamorising Spread Betting

February 11, 2009admin No Comments »

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.

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Spread Betting White-Label for Saxo Bank

February 3, 2009admin No Comments »

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.

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Short-Sellers betting on more Retail Gloom

January 31, 2009admin No Comments »

Short selling positions on retail shares have almost doubled between November and January, as investors bet on further gloom for the sector…

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Victor to launch Spread Betting Monday

January 17, 2009admin No Comments »

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.

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Paddy Worst performing Irish Shares 2008

January 5, 2009admin No Comments »

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…

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IG Index stresses Margin Requirements

November 4, 2008admin No Comments »

IG Index circulated the following letter regarding maintenance of margin requirements…

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Fresh short-selling of financial stocks outlawed

September 22, 2008admin No Comments »

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…

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Spread Betting No Fad

August 23, 2008admin No Comments »

Spread betting volumes more than doubled in the first half of 2008, compared with a year earlier, even as share trading volumes fell…

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IG bets on profitable US business

July 22, 2008admin No Comments »

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.

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