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FXCM has been expanding its business lately, in a way that is attracting attention on a global scale. In September, 2013, it assumed the accounts of Alpari USA and several weeks later it purchased the majority of the foreign exchange intelligence company, Faros Trading LLC.

OANDA, a global provider of innovative foreign exchange trading services and one of Canada's largest Forex brokers, announced today that it is enhancing its presence in the UK. OANDA set up its European headquarters in June 2011 and its UK office today comprises 30% of the company's total volume. OANDA has plans to expand even further into Europe and the Middle East in the near future.

Al Brooks is a qualified ophthalmologist and professional trader. He is the author of many financial books including the Brooks Trading Course, several books on trading activity and his new three-book series, Trading Price Action. He also provides live intraday E-mini price action analysis and free end-of-day analysis and has had numerous articles published in Futures Magazine.

At DailyForex.com our goal is to provide traders with real-time information that can help them make smarter, more successful trades. In keeping with this mission statement, we noticed a gap in the industry – there are hundreds of quality Forex trading webinars out there, but traders don't necessarily know how to find them. Webinars have become a popular educational tool of late and to help disperse these valuable tools, Daily Forex has just introduced its new Webinar page, a useful instrument for keeping up with the multitude of webinars offered by Forex brokers across the globe.

I just read a report about how four prominent banking officials took their lives in a matter of six days. What was so horrible and unacceptable that it could bring these four individuals to so abruptly terminate their days on this earth?

With millions of viewers from around the world watching the Winter Olympic Games currently taking place in Sochi, not many people really know very much about this Russian city.

The history of the Canadian currency has always had a bit of an intrigue to it. For years the many various Canadian provinces used different currencies at one and the same time, often creating a complex situation. The Halifax rating, the valuation used in most of the country for years, was replaced in 1841 by a gold standard based on both the British gold sovereign and the American gold eagle coins. However, this valuation was not adopted by all the provinces and only in April 1871, did the Canadian Parliament pass the Uniform Currency Act unifying the currencies of the various provinces and replacing them with a common Canadian dollar.

2014 certainly looks like becoming the year of the the first major sports team to accept the Bitcoin, an online currency that has gained tremendous popularity of late.