Interactive Brokers Now Offers Universal Stock Futures on EURONEXT-LIFFE
Tuesday March 18, 11:19 am ET
GREENWICH, Conn., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive Brokers' non-US customers may now electronically trade EURONEXT-LIFFE's Universal Stock Futures for an industry low rate of EUR 2.50 per contract. Commissions include brokerage, exchange, clearing, and technology fees. (Note: EURONEXT- LIFFE Universal Stock Futures are not available to US customers).
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"We are pleased to continue to offer our international customer base access to revolutionary products such as Universal Stock Futures," says Gerald Perez, Managing Director, Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited. "By adding this product, we are keeping to the mission that our Chairman has set forth -- Create technology to provide liquidity on better terms and compete on price, speed, size, diversity of global products and advanced trading tools."
Stock futures are contracts to buy or sell shares of a particular company at a predetermined date in the future. EURONEXT-LIFFE offers Universal Stock Futures on approximately 115 stocks covering thirteen countries. Interactive Brokers supports EURONEXT-LIFFE Universal Stock Futures in four currencies. The currencies are EUR (2.50 per contract), CHF (3.75 per contract), GBP (1.70 per contract) and USD (2.75 per contract). For more information on EURONEXT-LIFFE Universal Stock Futures, visit www.liffe.com .
In addition to linking directly to EURONEXT-LIFFE, IB links to numerous other European equity and derivatives markets, such as EUREX, LSE, MEFF, MATIF, MONEP, SWX, XETRA, Borsa Italiana and more.
Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited is regulated in the United Kingdom by The Financial Services Authority Limited. IB UK's US affiliate, Interactive Brokers LLC, is regulated in the United States by the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and by various regulators, including NASD and NYSE; Interactive Brokers LLC is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).
About Interactive Brokers, www.interactivebrokers.com
Interactive Brokers LLC, a global electronic brokerage firm based in Greenwich, Conn., specializes in providing active traders, advisors and institutions low cost execution and clearing services for stock, options, futures, single stock futures and exchange-traded funds around the world. Interactive Brokers LLC is a member of the Interactive Brokers Group (IBG). IBG comprises electronic brokerage and proprietary trading firms, including Timber Hill LLC, a leading market maker of exchange-listed equity and index options. IBG executes trades on more than 40 market centers, spanning more than 15 countries. Customers may execute trades through the firm's smart, high-speed order routing system or route their orders directly to a particular market center. Stocks, options, futures, single stock futures and exchange- traded funds are easily traded worldwide from a single Universal Account(SM).
IBG's founding member, Timber Hill, has completed its 25th year as a broker dealer. IBG's consolidated equity capital exceeds $1.2 billion, and its daily trading volume regularly exceeds 200,000 trades. The Group employs approximately 450 traders, programmers and support staff located in offices and exchanges throughout the world.
Security Futures are highly leveraged investments and are not suitable for all investors. You must carefully review the Standardized Risk Disclosure for Security Futures, available at www.interactivebrokers.com , before trading these products. |
