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With the current impasse over Brexit and the inability of politicians in the U.K. to agree on a way forward, are there any clues as to what an actual exit from the European Union (EU) will look like, apart from disorganized? And, how is all the ongoing uncertainty affecting financial institutions?

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While projections provided by the Federal Reserve following the March monetary policy meeting suggested the central bank no longer expects to raise interest rates this year, the minutes of the meeting note the outlook for rates remains fluid.

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The Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) has updated its warning list with BrokerYard, Capital245, CryptoEU, Pepperdyne, and UproFX, among others, earlier this week. According to the Spanish financial watchdog, these entities are not authorized to provide investment services in the country.

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China's non-stimulus stimulus is working. But has it peaked? Meanwhile, value investors like the recent decline in A-share pricing.

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The Dutch financial regulator AFM announced its plans to make the product intervention measures of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) permanent. These measures are aimed at guaranteing greater investor protection for retail investors across the EU, and include ban on binary options trading and a number of restrictions on CFD trades, including a leverage cap of 1:30.

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For the SPDR Portfolio Mid Cap ETF, we found that the implied analyst target price for the ETF based upon its underlying holdings is $37.40 per unit.

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Forward-looking highlights from GeoQuant’s high-frequency political risk intelligence platform

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Offshore brokers that offer VISA and MasterCard payment options to their clients are faced with new restrictions.

For one, currently offshore brokers have to pay a much higher fee for processing card transactions, compared to the one payed by brokers, regulated in the European Union, USA, Canada, Australia or Japan.

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Investing is simple, right? Just put 60% of your portfolio in stocks and 40% in bonds and go live your life. 10 or 20 years later, you will be in great shape.... 60/40 portfolios, while often effective, are just not the cinch they are portrayed to be.

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One method of determining what characteristics define a value stock.

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