Archive for április, 2008

hétfő, április 14th, 2008

Market participants

Rank
Name
Volume

1
Deutsche Bank
19.30%

2
UBS AG
14.85%

3
Citi
9.00%

4
Royal Bank of Scotland
8.90%

5
Barclays Capital
8.80%

6
Bank of America
5.29%

7
HSBC
4.36%

8
Goldman Sachs
4.14%

9
JPMorgan
3.33%

10
Morgan Stanley
2.86%

Unlike a stock market, where all participants have access to the same prices, the forex market is divided into levels of access. At the top is the inter-bank market, which is made up of the largest investment banking firms. Within the inter-bank market, spreads, which […]

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kedd, április 8th, 2008

Market size and liquidity

The foreign exchange market is unique because of

its trading volumes,
the extreme liquidity of the market,
the large number of, and variety of, traders in the market,
its geographical dispersion,
its long trading hours: 24 hours a day (except on weekends),
the variety of factors that affect exchange rates.
the low margins of profit compared with other markets of fixed income […]

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kedd, április 8th, 2008

Australian FOREX Daily Outlook 07/04/2008

Non-Farm Payrolls Pushes Dollar Down, Increasing Likelihood of Rate Cut
 
CURRENCY TRADING SUMMARY � 07 APRIL 2008 (00:30GMT)

�                U.S. Dollar Trading (USD) was weaker on Friday as a result of a worse than expected Non-Farm Payrolls data release indicating employment fell by 80,000 in March, […]

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