Posted by Admin on October 31st, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Financial spread betting is a way of trading that has quite a few advantages. As with anything in life there are also some disadvantages and I will talk about these as well. I hope to give you a balance view of financial spread betting so that you can decide if it is some thing that you want to pursue.Financial spread betting has been around for a while. In fact it has been around from the 1970s but has only genuinely got well-liked in the last couple of years. It is in fact defined as betti...
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Posted by Admin on October 30th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Over the past year, UK banks have incurred a significant amount of writedowns on the back of devalued sub-prime related securities. Earnings and balance sheets across the banking sector were dented and a softening economic outlook in the UK and US, coupled with fresh sub-prime news, caused selling pressure on banking shares to mount. Of the FTSE 100 banks; HSBC, RBS, HBOS and Barclays were the worst casualties in terms of writedowns and credit losses between 2007 and 2008 according ...
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Posted by Admin on October 29th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
A spread can be termed as the difference the asking price (buying price) and the bid price (selling price). Financial spread betting is an investment option/vehicle that enables investors to invest in shares and stocks while at the same time making speculations on the probable changes in the financial markets. It’s a binary bet where the investor hopes to gain in the future for the present investment. The foreign exchange (forex) market is a highly volatile market which means that...
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