Why politicians and television still need each other
Mar 30, 2017 04:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
We are living through a period of particularly combative media-politics relations, driven largely by the Trump presidency and the ongoing fake news debate. But, as an ABC Rear View documentary reminded us recently, tension...
Mar 29, 2017 14:35 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
As widely trailed, today saw Prime Minister Theresa May announce the activation of Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union, beginning the process of the UKs departure from the EU. The letter, delivered to the office...
Brexit Britain and trade – this is where it gets tricky
Mar 29, 2017 14:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The triggering of Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union by Theresa May finally signals the end of the phoney war on Brexit. For months, members of the British government have talked up the prospects of the UK...
Mar 29, 2017 12:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
U.S. consumer confidence defied economists expectations for a fall and unexpectedly improved in the month of March. Data showed that U.S. Conference Board consumer confidence index jumped to 125.6 in March from a revised...
Mar 29, 2017 12:10 pm UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
In an intermediate uptrend, gold prices have almost retraced upto 61.8% from the lows of 1046.54 to the recent highs of 1263 levels in the consolidation phase, but for, this Fibonacci level has acted as a stiff resistance...
FxWirePro: Hedging against Chinese onshore FX and interest rate risks
Mar 29, 2017 11:07 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
Access to the interbank bond market is the latest opening up of the Chinese onshore FX market to foreign bond investors completes the list of tools that foreign investors need to facilitate their investment in the onshore...
FxWirePro: PBoC’s new regime on CIBM for ease of operations of FIIs
Mar 29, 2017 09:47 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
Access to the interbank bond market The latest opening up of the onshore FX market to foreign bond investors completes the list of tools that foreign investors need to facilitate their investment in the onshore China...
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