IFX Markets customers who trade on the popular GTS platform will find a number of unique features designed to improve their trading:

-- Fixed Spreads -- In all market conditions, even fast-moving or volatile markets(1)

-- Streaming Interbank Market Prices -- Only retail Forex broker to have an exclusive data sharing partnership with ICAP plc for the institutional EBS price feed

-- Automatic Execution -- 98.72% of all orders are automatically executed and never touched by a human dealer(2)

-- Leverage -- 50:1 to 400:1(3)

-- Multiple Order Types -- Offers buy entry stops, buy entry limits, sell entry stops, sell entry limits and market orders

-- Integrated Risk Management -- Allows up to five stops and limits per order, including trailing stops

-- Trade anytime, anywhere -- Accessible through a single username and password for GTS Pro, GTS Web, GTS Mobile and FX AccuCharts.

Clive Cooke, CEO of City Index, said, "Upon our acquisition of FX Solutions in February of this year, we believed that marrying the unique strengths of each of these entities would create the premier Forex broker in terms of capabilities, trading platform and geographic reach. We are very excited by the prospects of this combined firm."

About FX Solutions

FX Solutions is a leading U.S.-based online foreign exchange broker serving both retail and institutional customers. The Company provides IBs and White Label Partners FX trading and risk management in over 50 countries through its Global Trading Systems (GTS) platform. Regulated by the CFTC and NFA, FX Solutions' custom-engineered suite of applications includes one-click trading, automated execution of orders, a proprietary price feed and competitive fixed-spread pricing - resulting in consistently low executable spreads. FX Solutions has websites and complete customer support in four languages.

FX Solutions' Global Trading System platform, known as GTS, was built to be scalable and flexible, serving the needs of retail clients and institutional partners. The GTS platform provides for approximately 99% automated execution of all orders, as well as a suite of professional trading features and tools. Recently, FX Solutions announced the launch of several new products including GTS Web, a web-based platform, GTS Mobile, a mobile trading tool, and FX AccuCharts 7.0, a charting package that has over 150 indicators and allows for trading from the charts.

www.fxsolutions.com

About City Index Group

City Index is one of the leading providers of trading products to individuals worldwide.

The Group trades primarily under the City Index and FX Solutions brands, and also provides fully outsourced white label solutions to numerous partners. As a group, City Index transacts in excess of 1.5 million trades for individuals in over 50 countries worldwide, across a wide range of instruments including foreign exchange and Contracts for Difference (CFDs).

The Group employs over 300 staff across 6 offices in the UK, United States, China, Singapore and Australia and has partnership relationships throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Middle East. The Group is regulated in Europe, the United States, Singapore and Australia.

(1) While we strive to display fixed price spreads at all times, there may be occasions, however rare, where a significant market or world event may force us to widen spreads without prior notice to our clients.

(2) For the time period of April 1, 2008 through June 30, 2008.

(3) During normal market hours whenever the markets are open (Sunday 17:15 to Friday 16:30 Eastern Time).

SOURCE: FX Solutions, LLC

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"My guess is the Fed probably will cut rates, but I think they are waiting along with the rest of the central banks to see if they can make a coordinated move after the G7 meeting," Joseph Trevisani, chief markets analysts at FX Solutions in Saddle River, New Jersey.

In prepared remarks to the National Association for Business Economics, Bernanke said the Fed "will need to consider whether current stance of policy remains appropriate." He also added that recent soft economic data showed the U.S. growth outlook was was worsening and the downside risks rising.

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Eurozone data on Wednesday underscored a weakening euro zone economy. Retail sales in July fell and data confirmed that the euro zone economy shrank in the second quarter, its first quarter-on-quarter decline since the data series began in 1995.

"A good number," said Joseph Trevisani, chief market analyst at FX Solutions in Saddle River, New Jersey, referring to U.S. factory orders data.

"All in all, it will provide the dollar with longer term support. Not an immediately reactive number for the market but it fills in the picture of a moderately recovering U.S. economy."

In early New York trading, the euro fell 0.3 percent to $1.4474, after hitting a low of $1.4386 in intraday trading, its lowest since Jan. 22.

The dollar index , which tracks its performance against six major currencies, rose 0.1 percent to 78.137, after jumping to an 11-month high of 78.651.

The dollar was flat against the yen at 108.69 yen. Sterling fell as low as $1.7669, crashing more than a full cent to its lowest since April 2006, before recovering slightly after figures showing an improvement in the UK services sector. The pound last traded down 0.1 percent at $1.7807.

A further drop in crude-oil prices, which have tumbled this week after Hurricane Gustav left energy facilities in the Gulf of Mexico mostly unscathed, also benefited the U.S. currency. Oil prices last traded down 1.5 percent at $108.11 a barrel

Analysts said investors were increasingly getting on board with the greenback as a safer place to allocate cash compared with other currencies whose countries were further behind in terms of economic readjustment in the wake of the global credit crunch.

"We're seeing a continuation of the trend where sentiment on the rest of the world is deteriorating while sentiment in the U.S. is improving albeit from a very low base, and the dollar is outperforming as a result," RBC head of FX strategy Adam Cole said in London.

On the U.S. economic front, the Federal Reserve is slated to release its Beige Book on regional economic conditions at 2 p.m. Eastern time. (Additional reporting by Nick Olivari; editing by Walker Simon) tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com tc

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