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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was almost one per cent lower at noon, dragged down by weaker commodities prices. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 33.5 points, or 0.71 per cent, at 4667.7, while the broader All Ordinaries fell 37.9 points ...

CMC appoints head of wholesale

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... for targeting mid to large size financial institutions that are looking to add online broking and Contracts for Difference (CFD) trading to their service offering. Clinnick joins CMC Markets after five years with MF Global where he helped to win several ...

CFD demand rises with equities recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... its latest annual report on the sector, canvassing the views of more than 7,500 investors, nearly a third of whom are active CFD traders. The firm also surveyed a more than 300 investors who intend to trade CFDs and roughly the same number of people ...

CMC continues broking push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
CFD provider CMC Markets ploughs more resources into its stockbroking arm as ongoing consolidation and tighter capital adequacy rules imposed on smaller brokers open up more opportunities in the sector. Traditionally catering for Contracts for Difference ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... morning trade. At 1202 AEST, BHP Billiton was off 92 cents at $33.56 and rival Rio Tinto shares lost $1.87 to be $69.11. Head of CFD trading at MG Global, Anthony Anderson, said it had been a quiet morning on the markets after a weak lead from Wall St ...

IG Markets offers more transparency

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Contract for Difference (CFD) provider IG Markets Australia answers the call to provide more pricing transparency behind CFD trades when it launched a new service that allows clients to tap directly into the live order book of global equity exchanges. ...

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... at the end of each trading day and users can monitor people who are making money on a particular contract for difference (CFD) for instance, or learn about their trading strategy. At the other end of the spectrum, traders can also track how others are ...

IG Markets launches brand campaign

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
CFD provider IG Markets will spend $5 million on a local campaign as part of a global push to raise public awareness of the FTSE-listed brand in Australia. IG Markets' country chief executive in Australia, Tamas Szabo, said that the campaign is targeted ...

CFD traders hibernate during crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
The number of 'dormant' contracts for difference (CFD) traders rose 71 per cent from April last year to August 2008 due to market uncertainty. According to the third annual 2008 Contracts For Difference Report by Investment Trends, the number of CFD ...

IG Markets enables chart trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
IG Markets has launched a new CFD trading system that allows investors to trade from charts of market data. Developed in partnership with IT-Finance, the new DealThru Charts cover over 70 technical indicators and are updated in real time. The new system ...