Theresa May's speech and the challenge to expand English social housing
Oct 06, 2017 00:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Amid the drama of Theresa Mays conference speech was the announcement of new funding for social housing and a new generation of council houses in England. This follows long-term under-investment in social and affordable...
The data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
Oct 06, 2017 00:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...
Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
Oct 06, 2017 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Economy
China, the worlds largest car market, is working on a timetable to stop the production and sale of vehicles powered by fossil fuels. India has declared its intention to make all new vehicles electric by 2030. Like...
The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue
Oct 06, 2017 00:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The deal signed this week by the federal government and the nations biggest three gas producers will ease Australias gas supply squeeze, but it will do nothing to address the current high prices. Under the contract,...
Oct 05, 2017 13:03 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
One of the most visible effects of this years dollar weakness is the relentless narrowing of risk-reversals in USD pairs, particularly since mid-Q2 once the French elections were out of the way. Initially, softer...
FxWirePro: Uphold Vega longs in NZD/JPY diagonal options straps to serve dual objectives
Oct 05, 2017 12:25 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
If you could observe from the technical charts of NZDJPY in the recent past, it has shown a considerable resilience, (observe bearish candles with big real bodies of previous months, refer above technical chart), we...
Oct 05, 2017 11:29 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
NZDJPY bears resume with hanging man and bearish engulfing patterns at 82.110 and 80.979 levels respectively, in minor trend and gravestone doji and shooting star at 80.985 and 82.811 levels respectively in the major...
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