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Zak Mir – Is your spread betting firm betting against you?

Zak Mir – Is your spread betting firm betting against you?

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By Zak Mir. You would not believe how much PR spam the Editor of SpreadBet Magazine receives on a daily basis from PR agencies trying to get us to promote the latest and greatest service aimed at spreadbetters. For the most part this gets dumped immediately in the trash folder, but every now and again…

Dominic Picarda’s Daily Pick 4th November 2013

Dominic Picarda’s Daily Pick 4th November 2013

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By Dominic Picarda. Equities have been taking a breather for the past couple of sessions following their latest burst higher. I see this as a healthy pause. We are now, of course, in the seasonally more bullish time of the year for the stock market, which makes just one more reason to keep faith with…

Weekend must reading – the Fed’s burning match. A re-iteration of our feature story in this months magazine

Weekend must reading – the Fed’s burning match. A re-iteration of our feature story in this months magazine

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The Fed will have to increase QE (not taper it) because systemic debt is compounding faster than production and interest rates are already zero-bound. Lee Quaintance noted many years ago that the Fed was holding a burning match. This remains true today (only it is a bomb with a short fuse). Thirteen years after the over-levered…

Baltic Dry at 1500 – what is it telling us?

Baltic Dry at 1500 – what is it telling us?

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I know we have the charting equivalent of a man crush on the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) at the moment, but it is such an important chart for anyone with the slightest interest in the health of the mining sector. And as regular readers of SpreadBet Magazine will know, if we have a bit of…

InterTrader launches first no dealing desk spread betting service

InterTrader launches first no dealing desk spread betting service

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InterTrader Direct The first No Dealing Desk spread betting service on MT4 InterTrader Direct today launches spread betting and CFD trading via the MT4 platform. Markets offered include forex, indices and commodities, all executed via automated processing (ECN/STP) with no dealer intervention. This makes InterTrader Direct the first true ‘Pound-Per-Point’ spread betting service with No…

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Reduces exposure to stocks

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Reduces exposure to stocks

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By Filipe R. Costa. Norway is sitting on one of the greatest financial assets ever assembled for such a small nation; the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund worth £500billion. This guarantees that every citizen of that country is set to receive about £100,000 from the government pension fund on retirement. This contrasts greatly with most other…

Zak Mir on Mining Minnows AVM, HOC & POG

Zak Mir on Mining Minnows AVM, HOC & POG

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By Zak Mir. Mining Minnows: Is the latest dip for the Gold price enough to derail the extended technical recovery argument for highly followed speculative mining minnows such as Avocet Mining, Hochschild and Petropavlovsk? Avocet Mining (AVM):  Expected target for year end 2013 towards 25p Extended RSI support line flags a sustained recovery 50 day…

Dominic Picarda’s Daily Pick 1st November 2013

Dominic Picarda’s Daily Pick 1st November 2013

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By Dominic Picarda. Just as retailers seem to start putting out their Christmas wares and decorations earlier and earlier every year, traders begin talking about the “Santa Claus” rally well in advance. I saw the first reference to the prospects for a late December rally earlier this week, before the Halloween paraphernalia had even yet…

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SBM 4 THE VAMPIRE SQUID 0

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