Shares and Indices

Shares and Indices

Europe’s Bond-Buying Program

The European Central Bank (ECB) engaged into a €2 trillion bond buying program to promote economic growth and drive inflation up in the Eurozone. It involves buying assets from commercial banks to inject more funds in the banking system. It is a non-standard monetary policy commonly referred as quantitative easing (QE). The market expected the QE...

September 7, 2017
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US Indices at Record Highs

US Indices at Record Highs US Indices have hit record highs in 2017 and are continuing to rally since the Trump presidency began back in January. The recent rally in the US Indices is mainly due to big number of companies reporting stronger performance results than the experts were predicting and a weaker dollar. Now let’s look at how the main US...

August 3, 2017
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Trading The HK50 Index

You might have heard about Hong Kong in the news, recently they celebrated twenty years of “return to the motherland”. Before we discuss the HK50 index, it’s let’s briefly review the historical and political situation. You might be asking yourself, is Hong Kong a separate country or part of China? [caption id="attachment_57013" align="align...

July 10, 2017
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US Dollar Index Futures with GO Markets

US Dollar Index Futures with GO Markets For stock traders, trading indices is a cost-effective way to gain exposure to many different companies in one single transaction. Similarly, the US Dollar Index acts as a benchmark to currency traders. The index measures the value of the US Dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies. In other words, t...

June 26, 2017
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Nifty 50

Nifty 50 Go Markets are proud to introduce Nifty 50 (India 50 on GO MT4). The Nifty index is listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in India and acts as a benchmark for the Indian equity markets. It is a capitalization weighted index which covers 13 sectors of the Indian economy in one portfolio.   India is the fastest growing economy of...

June 2, 2017
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Trading Opportunities from Japan’s Shock Interest Rate Decision

After looking at the reasons why the Bank of Japan decided to opt for negative interest rates in the first part of this series, we will now see the factors that can help explain why the yen is not going south. When there is nothing out there: As discussed earlier, part of BOJ’s decision to go into negative rates was to push financial institutio...

February 25, 2016
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Bank of Japan opts for negative interest rate, but Yen soars

Just days before Japan’s unexpected negative rate announcements, the country’s central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda was quoted in an interview where he said he was optimistic about the Japanese economy. In the same interview, he iterated that while he closely monitors the stock markets, he was not overly concerned that the current turmoil in fin...

February 24, 2016
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