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Sterling may lose one-quarter of its value if the U.K. votes to leave the European Union in its upcoming referendum, the head of a top London hedge fund told CNBC...

Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated, expects another market dip prior to the end of the first half of this year. He thinks a dip will range between 5% and 8% at some point over the next two months...

Binary options are a new and popular type of investment vehicle among traders mainly because of the simplicity. Similarly to vanilla options, binary options allow a trader to trade on the future price of an asset...

Banknotes are changing - with the look and feel of the cash in our pockets going through significant changes in the coming years. The Bank of England's first plastic banknote will enter circulation in September, when the new £5 note featuring Sir Winston Churchill is issued...

With a lot going on in the Vantage FX office this morning, just a quick note featuring a few charts and carries on from the commodities trading theme we’ve been following recently in the Forex News Centre...

The six month annualised growth rate in the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity three to nine months into the future, fell from –1.07% in February to –1.53% in March...

Prices rose 3.8% in the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction after a 2.1% gain previously. Although markets had been expecting prices to advance at the latest auction, the gain triggered a further advance for the New Zealand currency ahead of a key interest rate decision next week...

Moving averages are without a doubt the most popular trading tools and indicators. Moving averages are a great tool if you know how to use them – most traders, however, make some fatal mistakes when it comes to trading with moving averages...

Lausanne is joining the growing list of places looking to experiment with a universal basic income. Politicians in Lausanne — a city of around 150,000 people in Switzerland — have adopted a motion to carry out a pilot scheme for basic income in the city...

The US presidential selection process is well underway, and yet there has been no coherent discussion of fiscal policy. In part, this is because it does not appear particularly urgent. The US deficit peaked in 2009 at 10.1% of GDP. Last year it stood at what for most OECD countries an enviable 2...

Verbal ping-pong is to be heard at the Frankfurt press conference this Thursday, as monetary super weapons were launched just a month ago and the monetary conditions including inflation and credit outlook are rather positive...

The US dollar has depreciated over the past few months, even against the euro which has refused to head down despite the ECB’s efforts...

Covering the boldest of bullish and bearish forecasts on Oil so far, only one company’s forecasts have been right on target. The Doha failed oil negotiations clearly was the big market moving event this week...

For most of us, taxes are a simple but mind-numbing chore: You dust off your TurboTax login, you type the numbers into the little boxes, and a seemingly random number is generated telling you how much you owe or how much you get back...

Early losses for GBP as European desks sink a few coffees On-going Brexit concerns/hype/blather not helping investors or traders to have any faith right now. Expect more of the same but we're still range-trading for the moment. Sell high, buy low. GBPUSD 1.4140 as EURGBP heads up to 0...

FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), the leading US forex broker, announced it has relaunched its website for institutional trading FXCMPro.com. The institutional trading service of FXCM, FXCM Prime, was first launched in 2004. The FXCMPro...

Important determinants of the NZD/USD exchange rate direction from 0...

The Euro took a step back last week as global equity markets rallied, and despite the proximity of the European Central Bank’s April policy meeting, the move was likely unrelated...

NZD/USD has been a volatile display at the start of Asia this week. We have had both the Doha story creating turmoil across the board and just recently, the keenly awaited CPI was released from New Zealand, beating expectations and sending the bird back to close the bearish opening gap...