Excerpt from: Understanding Spread Betting
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| October 30, 2007 | | Look at the fundamentals when placing spread bets | When formulating a spread betting strategy, it can help to look at economic fundamentals. Often, the economic indicators of a country's economy also point to how the stock market, bond market and currency will perform. Here are some of the economic indicators that can give you help when placing spread bets:
- Interest rates from central banks
- Consumer confidence
- Jobs data
- Export prices (very important for commodity currencies)
- Country's overall debt profile
- Trade surpluses (or deficits)
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