Stocks had their best month in almost a decade, rising from their low point of the year in an almost uninterrupted four-week rally. The juice mostly came from Europe, which appeared to finally find a strategy for taming its debt crisis.
Stock Market News for December 23, 2011
Stock Market News for December 23, 2011-Investors received a pre-Christmas gift in the form of encouraging economic data, which led the benchmarks higher on Thursday.
Alternative Investments
After the stock market’s crazy patch, experts show how to best use the so-called alternative mutual funds flooding the market.
What are CFDs?
To open a CFD position, you need to deposit only a fraction of the full value of your trade, usually from 2% -30%. CFD trading can offer the possibility of a much better return on your initial investment than you would receive if paying for the trade in full. Conversely, losses will also be amplified, as shown in the example below
What are Occupy Wall Street’s wins and losses?
Bank fees: Every time you use your Bank of America debit card and don’t pay $5, thank Occupy Wall Street.
Changing the national conversation: Coming out of the summer, the economic debate in Washington was dominated by talk of cutting the deficit — not jobs, not the wealth disparity in America, and certainly not the role of money in politics.
Getting Wall Street’s attention: Perhaps even more impressive is how OWS has seeped into Wall Street’s own conversation. This is partly due to the early attention paid by a few influential financial bloggers, such as bank critic Barry Ritholtz. But bankers were clearly stung by the 1% tag and angered by suggestions they hadn’t earned their bonuses.
Why trade Contracts for Difference (CFDs)?
CFDs provide an alternative way to trade. Waiting to set aside the capital to buy a share portfolio can mean missing valuable trading opportunities. CFDs allow you to be involved in the market now. And with only a proportion of your capital invested using CFDs in comparison to physical shares, you have the freedom to use the difference for other investment opportunities – making your money work smarter.
Recovery next year for world stocks: poll
Investors too are entering the fourth quarter with a slightly raised exposure to shares and holding high reserves of cash that could quickly be used to fuel a stock rally, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday
The survey also suggested strong gains lie ahead on some rich-world bourses, with bourses in the United States, Australia, France, Germany and Japan expected to yield double-digit returns from now until mid-2012….
How to chose a Forex Broker
There are ways that a dishonest broker can skim profits off of your trade. One of those ways is by taking advantage of what can be up to a 2 minute gap between the time that you place your order and the time that you see the results on your platform. Second- the broker controls the price you see on your trading platform and there’s a custom made opportunity to shave profit from the transaction if the price moved before the transaction was posted back to your screen.
CFD markets
CFDs open a world of trading opportunities. With fewer restrictions on what you can trade, which markets you can trade in and how much it will cost, you can literally trade 24 hours a day, – commission free for FX, index and commodity CFDs..
ارتفاع اسعار الاسهم عالميا مع انتعاش الآمال بحل ازمة الدين الاوروبية
ارتفعت اسعار الاسهم في البورصات العالمية بقوة بعد انتعاش الامال بشأن الاتفاق المتوقع بين الزعماء الاوروبيين وصندوق النقد الدولي على حزمة الانقاذ الشاملة لحل ازمة المديونية في منطقة اليورو.