Airbnb: who's in, who's out, and what this tells us about rental impacts in Sydney and Melbourne
May 21, 2018 12:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
The rapid growth of the giant online accommodation-sharing platform, aka Airbnb, is creating serious concerns about equity and the impacts on our cities and neighbourhoods as we know them. Our recent research shows that...
FxWirePro: Low vols play - Trade USDCHF via iron condor spreads
May 21, 2018 12:18 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
USDCHF failed twice in 2015 and 2017 to clear key pivotal resistance at 1.0343, now struggling to hold 2017 October highs which inherited the risk of having formed the range bounded trend. You could make out the...
FxWirePro: Hedge USD/CHF via debit put spreads on bearish neutral risk reversals and projections
May 21, 2018 11:50 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
We spot on the pair that has the least ATM IVs when the underlying spot FX has also been drifting in range bounded trend. We upgraded our CHF forecasts. Last month we lowered our forecasts for the franc to take account...
Coinsecure attempts to cut corners and settle fraud
May 21, 2018 09:47 am UTC| Digital Currency Insights & Views
Fraud among cryptocurrency investment promoters is widespread, but how do you avoid cryptocurrency scams? The easiest way is just to stay at home and dont play with your hard-earned cash. The India-based coin exchanges...
May 21, 2018 09:36 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Bearish NZDUSD scenarios below 0.67 if: 1) The housing market slowdown becomes disorderly; 2) The immigration rolls over quickly; 3) NZ bank funding issues intensify, causing the market to question NZs ability to...
Alibaba’s chief Jack Ma constructive on Blockchain as technology but destructive on Bitcoin
May 21, 2018 06:20 am UTC| Fintech Technology Digital Currency Commentary Insights & Views
Weve been seeing the newly invented advanced technologies on a constant basis, now the Blockchain can have a large impact on the way transactions and ownership are recorded, it is important to note that there are actually...
Venezuelans are boycotting their presidential election
May 20, 2018 15:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Venezuelas May 20 presidential election may be an election in name only. Nicolás Maduro is widely expected to be reelected as Venezuelas president despite his 20 percent approval rating and profound mismanagement...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects