Why the City should welcome a Capital Markets Union February 18, 2015 I strongly welcome the Capital Markets Union initiative that the Commission launched today. A Capital Markets Union will not change Europe overnight. But it can create a step change in the availability of finance, provide a new way for businesses to expand, fuel growth and create jobs across Europe and ensure that, should [...]
UK house prices: A return to optimism? – CNBC Comment February 16, 2015 The UK housing market is a favourite topic of conversation – a national pastime, even. But an abundance of different data types mean that statistics can swamp and confuse anyone looking to gauge the current climate. Property website Rightmove just announced its busiest ever month for house hunters, while Halifax saw its biggest January monthly [...]
How to choose the market that matches your convictions – DailyFX Tips & Picks February 16, 2015 MOST people have a fairly good idea of what is driving the financial markets. But much of the time, only a few are any good at choosing the right market to express their views of what’s going on. A good example of this is the overly bearish view of the Eurozone throughout 2013 by professional [...]
Arsenal injury record: Gunners players have missed more games than Chelsea and Tottenham put together February 13, 2015 Aaron Ramsey is the latest Arsenal player to find himself back on the treatment table after suffering his third hamstring injury of the season during the Gunners’ 2-1 victory over Leicester earlier this week. It’s a story that’s become all too familiar for Arsenal fans. The team takes a step forward in the league, [...]
General Election 2015: The key battlegrounds – CNBC Comment February 9, 2015 The state of the UK economy compared to how it was five years ago, and when compared to the EU at the moment, is impressive. Fragile, but impressive nonetheless. And the Coalition should be commended for that. But let’s make one thing clear: one of the main reasons this has been achieved is that the [...]
Real Forex Volume: The new kid on the trading block – DailyFX Tips & Picks February 9, 2015 AT TIMES, trading is an information arms race, where the traders with the best knowledge and the discipline to stick to their ideas tend to do better than those who trade on a whim. With this in mind, traders may be interested to hear that FX brokers have started to share their trading volume in [...]
Mark Carney’s struggle to master his words – CNBC Comment February 2, 2015 Once upon a time, you needed to be Alice in Wonderland to vanish down a rabbit hole. Nowadays, we are all falling in head first – thanks to a bunch of central bankers. But as we’re down here in this inverted QE world, Bank of England governor Mark Carney should probably heed the words of [...]
How much money should you risk on every trade? – DailyFX Tips & Picks February 2, 2015 IF WE traded with a fail-proof trading system, money management would be easy. We would simply risk as much as possible to maximise our gains. Yet real-life trading is very different. Studies show that the average FX trader makes a positive return on 60 out of 100 trades on average. As a simplified example of [...]
Australian Open prize money: Andy Murray makes his first million of 2015 January 30, 2015 Kim Sears may have been a picture of frustration in the Rod Laver Arena crowd yesterday, but her boyfriend Andy Murray has every reason to be happy after sealing his place in the Australian Open final for the fourth time. Murray has now guaranteed himself his first six-figure paycheck of 2015, even if [...]
Syriza’s triumph: Where debt dialogue could take markets January 26, 2015 Grexit is unlikely, but expect six months of Eurozone volatility. Financial markets took the result of the Greek general election largely in their stride yesterday. The victory of hard-left, anti-austerity party Syriza was predominantly in line with analysts’ predictions, with plenty of advance warning for investors and traders. But even so, the news did [...]