Spread Betting on the Stock Market

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Spread betting and contracts for differences on the stock market should consider that US stock futures are headed higher this morning. One of the main factors is optimism with regard to Citi. Even though the <a href="item/227345" target="_blank" title="Citi, US stock futures, stock futures, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets individual equities, spread betting, spread betting stock market, contracts for differences">US government is expected to take a stake in Citi</a>, there is some hopefulness ahead. Citi showed a profit in the first months of 2009, and that is a sign that things may be turning around as the writedowns slow in pace. As a result, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE52821B20090310?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews" target="_blank" title="Citi, US stock futures, stock futures, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets individual equities, spread betting, spread betting stock market, contracts for differences">US stock futures are higher</a>, pointing to a possible positive open, reports Reuters: <div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"We are looking at a nice open, if things stay the way they are," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Avalon Partners in New York. "There's a little bit of a break in the negative rhetoric that we've been having out of Washington." </div> Now all that remains to be seen is whether or not the spirit of optimism can be maintained on the US stock market. 9 application/xml false CFDs Citi contracts for differences spread bets spread bets individual equities spread betting spread betting stock market stock futures US stock futures Spread Betting on the Stock Market Spread bets on individual equities http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.66.2 false true false false true 133538 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web