Mar 24, 2017 11:49 am UTC| Insights & Views
Stay long CHF vs USD (3-month put spread) and EUR (cash). Take profits on a short 3m EURCHF strangle One of this weeks more telling market developments was the sell-off in EURCHF despite the benign outturn to the Dutch...
Surprisingly positive Eurozone PMIs fuel rate hike speculation
Mar 24, 2017 11:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Eurozone economic growth gathered further momentum in March, bolstering optimism over the region in the face of Brexit. Businesses across the euro zone ramped up activity at the fastest pace in almost six years, a survey...
FxWirePro: Bearish GBP basket via shorts in cable spot trades and long 2m EUR/GBP call spread
Mar 24, 2017 10:01 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
This write up emphasizes on the prevailing shorts in GBP and those who squared off lets reopen a bearish basket (stay short cable in cash, buy a 2-m EURGBP call spread), we bought cable two weeks ago as this was the most...
How science is helping the police search for bodies in water
Mar 24, 2017 07:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Science Law
Police divers have started searching a canal in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, hoping to find the remains of schoolgirl Moira Anderson who disappeared, suspected murdered, in 1957. The operation follows an investigation by...
BBC 'Brexit bias' claims need to be based on hard evidence
Mar 24, 2017 07:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The recent letter to the BBC by a group of MPs accusing it of anti-Brexit bias looks like the latest attempt by politicians and press magnates to intimidate the public broadcaster. The letter complains that the BBC has,...
How the courts gave us EU citizenship, and how Britons can keep it after Brexit
Mar 24, 2017 07:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
One of the most keenly fought battles in the run-up to Britains exit from the European Union has been over the existence and nature of citizenship. EU nationals in the UK have become bargaining chips before negotiations...
FBI's Russia probe threatens a reckoning for team Trump
Mar 24, 2017 07:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
So now we know: the FBI has for months been investigating not only Russian interference in the US presidential election, but also Russian contacts with members of the Trump campaign team. Its scope includes the possibility...
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