European Financial Transaction Tax Is Coming

By Lawrence

As reported by Reuters, EU has a tax on trading on the table.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/14/us-eu-transactiontax-idUSBRE91D0KH20130214

Although they said the tax is only applicable to the financial instruments traded in Europe only, and that forex is not part of the plan, you never know how such thing will evolve to.

What I am saying is that if you trade European instruments, or that you have brokerage account with some European brokerages, forex or not, you have to monitor the progress of this matter closely. The tax that they are going to impose, no matter how small, will destroy the liquidity of those markets.

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