Green bonds are taking off - and could help save the planet
Jan 05, 2018 17:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The tragedy of the horizons, a term coined by Canadas Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has been haunting the financial sector ever since climate change began posing serious threats to the planet. As Carney...
Net neutrality may be dead in the US, but Europe is still strongly committed to open internet access
Jan 05, 2018 16:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The belief that unrestricted internet access is vital to modern life is not necessarily a view held by all businesses that provide internet services. And now that net neutrality the equal treatment of all data sent and...
FxWirePro: Place EUR put/SEK call as Riksbank forward guidance ahead of ECB
Jan 05, 2018 12:13 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views
In Sweden, the prospects of a policy pivot were delayed not derailed this year. At the October meeting, the central bank signaled that it was waiting for further information which could motivate a QE extension, and also...
FxWirePro: Be choosy and stay long on VXY through 2018
Jan 05, 2018 12:11 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The global picture on the volatility front hasnt really changed in recent months. Implied and realized volatility is still hovering in their low or very low percentiles. 2017 the trading year is going out rather quietly...
Jan 05, 2018 09:46 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views
2017 has been the year in which more central banks broke ranks. We expect this to continue in 2018. The Fed will hike four times and the BoC two, which supports long positions in USD and CAD. Risk-reward-considerations:...
Jan 05, 2018 07:01 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
Ever since a resembling shooting star pattern has occurred at 1322.57 levels, the momentum in the previous rallies seems to be exhausted. As a result, both leading oscillators signal overbought pressures. You can easily...
Jan 05, 2018 06:12 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Australia reported a trade deficit of AUD 0.63 billion in November of 2017, an increase of 108 percent from a downwardly revised AUD 0.30 billion gap in the prior month and missing market expectations of an AUD 0.55...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects