Foreign-exchange trading in North America rose to a record $977 billion a day in October, while slowing in the U.K., Australia and Singapore, according to central bank surveys. The average daily volume in October compares with a revised $856 billion in April and $809 billion in October 2010, the Federal Reserve’s Foreign Exchange Committee said [...]
<!–TITOL: Forex: AUS/USD down after sales data FITITOL–> FXstreet.com (Barcelona) – Retail sales data in Australia have posted an unexpected and disappointing contraction of 0.1% in December vs. an estimated increase of 0.2% and coming from flat growth in November.The cross has been falling since the opening session in Asia also weighted by the negative [...]
LONDON, February 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Vantage FX UK is helping traders to tell their adjustable pegs from their leading indicators with a comprehensive Forex trading glossary hosted on its website, http://www.vantagefx.co.uk/ . In the glossary traders can find all the terminology they can expect to encounter in the Forex market and on the trading [...]
LONDON, February 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Vantage FX UK is helping traders to tell their adjustable pegs from their leading indicators with a comprehensive Forex trading glossary hosted on its website, http://www.vantagefx.co.uk/ . In the glossary traders can find all the terminology they can expect to encounter in the Forex market and on [...]
Wall Street Falls on Greece ConcernsReuters Stocks opened lower on Monday after a five-week rally on concerns Greece will be unable to avoid a chaotic default …
LONDON, February 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Vantage FX UK is helping traders to tell their adjustable pegs from their leading indicators with a comprehensive Forex trading glossary hosted on its website, http://www.vantagefx.co.uk/ . In the glossary traders can find all the terminology they can expect to encounter in the Forex market and on [...]
BY SUDEEP JAIN MUMBAI — India’s central bank has asked banks to approach it individually for relaxing some foreign currency trading limits and has already eased restrictions for some banks, a top official said Monday. “Some limits, based on their (banks’) merchant positions, have been relaxed,” Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor H.R. Khan told [...]
BANGKOK, Feb 6 (Reuters) – Thai stocks are expected to rise on Monday following a U.S. market rally and gains elsewhere in Asia, with strong global oil prices leading to selective buying in energy firms, brokers said. Asian shares rose on Monday as surprisingly robust U.S. jobs data last week bolstered investor risk appetite, overshadowing [...]
<!–TITOL: Forex: AUD/USD lower on disappointing data FITITOL–> FXstreet.com (Barcelona) – AUD/USD has been slowly in the decline since Tokyo open at 00:00 GMT when the index opened with a gap +1.31% higher. Aussie was coming from almost session highs at 1.0756 ahead of the data. Both retail sales and jobs ads were disappointing with [...]
BY STEPHEN L. BERNARD AND JESSICA MEAD NEW YORK—Thomson Reuters Corp. handled more foreign-exchange spot-market trading than its main rival EBS for a third straight month in January, as dwindling trading in the Swiss franc and the yen weighed on EBS volume figures. EBS, a unit of broker ICAP PLC, controls more volume than Thomson [...]









