This Week's Most Popular Dollar News
- #1 Leverage – The Best and the Worst of ItWritten by UKTrader Leverage or risk level (as eToro puts it) is a very important part of forex trading. There has always been a debate on the right levels and right use of it. In this blog post, I try to describe some of the features of leverage and how they can be used [...] read more...
- #2 Advocating Patience, Top Gurus Undaunted by Red Week(eToro Blog) Over the past week, quite a few OpenBook traders and even a few gurus were caught on the wrong side of a trade or when the crisis in the Eurozone escalated well beyond investors’ comfort zone. The Euro trended lower and refused to retrace, much to traders’ collective chagrin. With the uncertainty of [...] read more...
- #3 Facebook Heat could turn Wall Street from Sour to Sweet(eToro Blog) Ahead of the Facebook IPO – due to launch within the next few days – the heat’s been kicked up a notch and appetite for social networks stock whetted on the news that Groupon’s share price rose 18.54% in the overnight hours. According to the press release, Groupon’s first quarter profits beat expectations, [...] read more...
- #4 Discussions will be cleaner thanks to your helpThe “OpenTalk”, eToro OpenBoook discussions have just been equipped with an important new capability, which will help us keep the discussions clean, engaging and interesting. All of you who use the OpenBook, have the power to report any of the posts / comments created by other users as SPAM. All you need to do is simply click [...] read more...
- #5 Greece Avoids One Bond Default but at What Cost?(eToro Blog) With a new caretaker government ready to be installed there, it was not exactly business as usual in Greece; in a move that will likely infuriate sovereign bondholders, who agreed to take major haircuts on Greek debt, the Greek government (in its current inform) agreed to repay a €430 million bond which came [...] read more...
- #6 Germany and France Show United Front even as Greek Rift Grows(eToro Blog) Francois Hollande, the newly-inaugurated president of France, met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday for their first face-to-face encounter as elected heads of state. While austerity and growth issues are likely to eventually drive a wedge between the two, at the start of their relationship a show of solidarity was paramoun read more...
- #7 Could Advertising Risks Threaten Facebook’s Success?(eToro Blog) The countdown for Facebook’s IPO launch on the NASDAQ continues (T-minus 2 days and 3 hours, give or take a few minutes) and spoilsports are already practicing their “I-told-you-so” speech, ready to whip it out at the first sign that the social media giant won’t be able to raise the targeted $100 billion [...] read more...
- #8 Japan’s Economic Recovery Blasts Past Peers as Q1 GDP Tops Forecasts(eToro Blog) It’s been slightly more than a year since the horrific earthquake and tsunami which decimated a good portion of Japan and its economy, but the latest data suggests a recovery that speaks volumes to the resilience and commitment of the Japanese government. Recent data shows that Japan’s economy is powering well ahead of [...] read more...
- #9 Jean-Claude Trichet Has an Idea that Could Save the Euro, but Will it Fly?(eToro Blog) Jean Claude Trichet, the former president of the European Central Bank, yesterday presented a bold but sure to be controversial plan that could go some way to saving the Eurozone. Many of the problems that currently exist in the Eurozone can be blamed on the lack of a political or fiscal union, a [...] read more...
