Trade Nine Types of Financial Markets with City Index

LONDON, July 1, 2011 -

Spread betting and CFD trading provider City Index ( href="www.cityindex.co.uk/">www.cityindex.co.uk/)
allows traders to take a view on no fewer than nine types of
financial markets. Here they are:

Indices

Indices are the most widely traded markets in the world,
particularly among new traders. City Index offers some of the
tightest spreads in the market, starting from just 1 point on the
FTSE 100, Dow Jones, DAX 30 and CAC 40.

Shares

The company offers competitive spreads on thousands of shares
listed across world markets. Traders will find spreads as low as
0.08% and margins typically between 5% and 25%.

Sectors

Sector betting enables you to take a broader position on the
direction of an entire sector such as oil, gas, banks or miners
without having to speculate on an individual company.

Currencies

At City Index you can take a position on over 50 currency pairs
including major, minor and exotic pairs.

Metals

Spreads start from just 0.4 points for gold and 2.4 points on
platinum. 

Commodities

City Index offers competitive spreads on US crude oil, UK crude
oil, cocoa, coffee, sugar, pork bellies, wheat, soybeans, orange
juice and heating oil.

Bonds

The company also quotes competitive spreads on a range of bond
markets including US Bonds, Euro Bunds and UK Gilts.

Interest Rates

At City Index you can take a position on the base-line rates
of regions such as the UK and EU with short-term interest-rate
bets. Spreads for Euribor, Eurodollar and Short Sterling start from
just 0.03 points.  

Options

You can also take advantage of a range of options on a number of
indices, currencies and commodities markets online and UK and US
equities over the phone.

To find out more about the markets on offer at City Index,
visit:

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About City Index:

Today more and more individual traders are discovering the benefits
of derivatives, and many of them are discovering them through a
City Index trading platform.

As a group, we transact in excess of 1.5 million trades every month
for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide. We provide access
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CFDs) and, in the UK, href="www.cityindex.co.uk/spread-betting/">financial spread
betting.

We constantly look to widen the range of assets we offer, improve
the performance of our platforms and expand the range of services
we provide. The result is that our customers benefit from
innovative trading tools with transparent pricing, competitive
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Contact: Joshua Raymond, City Index, +44(0)20-7107-7002, joshua.raymond[at]cityindex.co.uk