It is a hard time to trade and leveraged (especially those that are long) investors are feeling double the pain as they are forced to quit.

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

CMC Spreadbet deserve full credit for not increasing their margins when others all around them seized the opportunity to squeeze more paper…

IG Index have increased their margin requirements in light of current market volatility…

CityIndex have also increased their margins due to ‘exceptional market volatility’…

New research shows people in the UK are still keen to invest despite economic turmoil and some are even benefiting.

antor Fitzgerald said yesterday it was effectively doubling the amount of money that must be held on deposit when trading FTSE 100 stocks via spread betting or contracts for difference.