FxWirePro: Crux between EM bond yield, EMFX, and EMFX vols
Oct 05, 2017 09:39 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
We examine three factors EM FX, EM FX volatility, and foreign net buying/selling of local bonds to see how different regimes influence valuation misalignments since 2012. Some general conclusions are stated below: EM...
FxWirePro: Platinum takes two to tango, offload shorts to book yields and jump on bandwagon
Oct 05, 2017 09:27 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
In this write-up, we emphasize to take half profit on short Jan18 NYMEX platinum owing to few fundamental drivers. Stringent emissions standards in China (the worlds major auto market), are serving to drive the price of...
FxWirePro: Target Theta shorts in NZD/USD diagonal credit put spreads to sync with 2w/2m IV skews
Oct 05, 2017 07:18 am UTC| Insights & Views
NZDUSD has continued its consolidation phase since last May to take rallies upto 0.7519 (i.e. 50% Fibonacci retracements from the lows of 0.6196). For now, it has managed to broke below 0.7170 minor support, signaling a...
Oct 05, 2017 05:57 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
In our previous write up, we traced heaps of bearish indications for NZDUSD, consequently, weve been seeing steep slumps from the last three months. The major trend seems to have been exhausted at 50% Fibonacci...
Las Vegas: the US is racked with impossible divisions over rights and freedoms
Oct 05, 2017 04:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In the immediate aftermath of the October 2 Las Vegas massacre the USs 273rd mass shooting in 2017 alone it seems neither President Donald Trump nor his Republican colleagues will entertain a review of current gun...
Dissociative identity disorder exists and is the result of childhood trauma
Oct 05, 2017 04:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Once known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder remains one of the most intriguing but poorly understood mental illnesses. Research and clinical experience indicate people diagnosed with the...
Error correcting the things that go wrong at the quantum computing scale
Oct 05, 2017 03:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Computing power has grown exponentially over many decades, so why is the much-promised next leap of quantum computers taking so long to arrive? One reason is that the information in a quantum system is sensitive to...
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