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FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) reported its fourth-quarter results Thursday after the markets closed. The foreign exchange trader posted $0.27 in earnings per share (EPS) and $134.7 million in revenue, coming over the top of Wall Street expectations. In the fourth quarter of the previous year it had $113.3 million in revenue.

Earlier this year, FXCM customers generated negative equity balances of roughly $276 million due to the unprecedented volatility in the Swiss franc when it unpegged from the euro in mid-January. The very next day, the company entered into a $300 million financing transaction with Leucadia National. Since this time, FXCM has repaid $12 million of the facility.