Trader Joseph Santoro signals a trade in the Nasdaq 100 stock index futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange shortly after the Fed announced a quarter point increase in the fed funds and the discount rate March 21, 2000. IG Group, the online brokerage and trading platform, dropped its half year results on Tuesday morning, and it has had a bumper start to the year, thanks to the ongoing craziness in the global markets right now.