Insights
Spread Betting allows you to access a whole range of financial markets around the world, but how do you know where to start? Let our Insights help you to spot trends, learn more about what makes prices move and gain some valuable, well, insight into the financial markets.
A fresh approach to trading on the price movements of commodities
CMC Markets has launched a new way to trade commodities by providing an innovative method to access a broad selection of popular commodity markets. This product provides direct economic exposure to commodities without the complexity of futures contracts, expiration dates, roll-overs and the need to manage delivery and settlement of physical goods. CMC Markets' commodities offer the following benefits...
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Commodities
Commodities represent many of our vital resources in terms of food and industry. This includes crude oil, copper, as well as wheat, sugar and coffee.
Commodity prices are influenced by a range of factors specific to each commodity class - from supply and demand conditions, weather and political risks - to pure speculation in some of the smaller markets. CMC Markets offers a range of commodities and you can find prices such as the gold price, oil price, or even the price of silver online on our demo account.
Companies
Major companies such as Barclays or Tesco have long been popular products for investors to trade.
Use our product library to search for any company you are interested in spread betting. If you know the name, simply type it in and search. Or you can browse through our list of companies by filtering by type, region and country.
Currencies
Foreign exchange or FX trading is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another.
Companies that transact business across borders must buy and sell currency in foreign exchange market. Investors and traders can speculate on changes in the relative prices between dozens of currencies, like pound to dollar or euro to pound, around the world. When one currency increases in value, it strengthens against the other, decreasing its value.
The FX market is more liquid than any other financial market, giving clients access to larger volumes, tighter dealing spreads and lower margin rates. FX trading takes place around the world 24 hours a day. With CMC Markets you can take advantage of currency trading and spread bet on currency pairs such as pound to euro and dollar to pound.
Indices
Many investors today prefer to trade indices rather than individual companies as they give a broader view of the economy.
Sectors
Sectors such as financial services or mining allow you to filter to find companies that all have similar characteristics.
You can compare price performance, volatility, latest news and much more within a sector to help identify the strongest (or weakest) performers. With CMC Markets you can filter by sector to find popular companies that you might want to spread bet.