World Agencies Confirm France’s Rating

Yesterday, ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings confirmed France’s top-tier credit rating after the average yields on the country’s debt securities went up amid fears that the European sovereign debt crisis is worsening. The forecast for France is stable and its triple-A rating is “justified,” said Moritz Kraemer, the...

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eToro Launches New Version of WebTrader and OpenBook

LONDON and MILAN, 9 Aug 2011 – With the release of eToro’s revolutionary CopyTrader feature, enabling traders to copy each others’ trades automatically, eToro also revamps the eToro WebTrader and OpenBook application with more exciting and user-friendly options. The addition of the CopyTrader tool to the eToro OpenBook arsenal is set to profoundly rock...

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Introduction To Forex Trading

There are many markets: markets for stocks, futures, options and currencies. These are probably the most accessible markets for everyday traders like you and I. People easily understand the basics of trading shares, so I will occasionally use examples from that market. I began trading shares first and then I moved on to trading...

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Debt Limit Talks Hit Another Wall as Boehner Calls off Vote

US stock markets are down, and the S&P 500 Index has been in a depression for the fourth day in a row. All Treasury securities have collapsed after members of Congress failed to show any kind of progress in reaching an agreement on raising the country’s debt ceiling. The dollar appreciated, while commodities became...

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