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Spread Betting Market News
| Spread Betting: Admiral is the 'chart to watch' |
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| Written by Sam Coventry |
| Wednesday, 24 August 2011 16:46 |
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According to David Morrison over at spread betting company GFT, Admiral could be on the move. Spread Betting understands that Admiral plc - the insurance provider - is on the move. David Morrison at GFT - the spread betting company - has the following to say: "Shares in Admiral fell over 10% today despite the fact the insurer unveiled record profits and hiked its dividend by 20%. Investors were unnerved largely by a big jump in the company’s loss ratio, which rose to 77.5% from 67.8%. The loss ratio measures the amount paid out in claims divided by the funds collected in the premiums. Admiral’s first-half revenues surged 53% to £1.1 billion while profits rose 27% to £160.6m. "However the markets were expecting £163m in profits. Also spooking investors was a proposal to ban commissions paid to insurers for referring customer to accident management companies." Looking elsewhere, Spread Betting sees that equities staged a rally in the afternoon following news of a better-than-expected rise in US durable goods orders. Investors had an extra motive to jump on the bandwagon as the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium kicks off tomorrow. Market players will be scrutinising comments from the Fed officials to decipher any clues on QE3. But there is nothing on the subject as of yet, so this rally could soon turn on its head. Investors will not want to be overexposed in one direction in case Bernanke disappoints their expectations. |
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Spread betting at a glance
- Spread betting is a financial product that allows retail and professional investors access to the widest possible number and types of exchange traded instruments.
- The spread betting company that you trade through is the market maker, the trader does not actually take ownership of any underlying product. Hence, most jurisdictions do not charge stamp duty on any gains.
- The notion that you don't actually own the product ensures spread betting platforms are able to almost instantaneously execute orders on behalf of their client.
- Spread betting is a leverage product, your money is able to realise you impressive gains as your earnings come in multiples of the actual change in the underlying product that you are trading.
- This is of course where spread betting can also go spectacularly wrong. Losses can be huge, therefore we advise those that are spread betting, or are looking to go into spread betting, to enter each trade with a well thought out strategy. This also means setting a pre-determined stop loss so that losses are cut at a manageable level.
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