Hanson stirs the sugar pot and backflips on penalty rates
Mar 27, 2017 14:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The next big judgement day for Pauline Hanson will be the election in her home state of Queensland, due in under a year. Her vote there will determine how much fear she puts into the Coalition ahead of the federal...
Subsidies for healthy foods are a price worth paying to tackle obesity
Mar 27, 2017 13:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The heavy costs of an increasingly obese population are well known. Physical problems associated with a Body Mass Index over 30 include type 2 diabetes, strokes, and certain types of cancer. Psychological issues include...
FxWirePro: Strategic themes for shift from dollar to euro carry trades on macro confluences
Mar 27, 2017 12:49 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
With US-centric drivers fading from prominence, idiosyncratic and global drivers emanating from other regions will play a greater role in driving FX going forward. Many of these drivers have come from Europe recently,...
FxWirePro: One-stop shop for stance on EM assets and trade basket
Mar 27, 2017 12:05 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The focused and concise emphasis the weekly one-stop shop for EM assets (FX, bonds/swaps, sovereign credit). It provides near term standpoints on FX and across a range of maturity buckets for swaps, bonds and sovereign...
FxWirePro: Is it trend reversal for USD/INR? Forms runaway gap to break major supports
Mar 27, 2017 11:39 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
The breakdown in USDINR continues with a renewed trending bias. The break of the 67/66.55 support zone (Jan breakout/July TL) highlights the importance of Fibonacci retracement violations confirming a deeper corrective...
Mar 27, 2017 10:05 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The USDINR had recouped all the lost incurred since the Q4 demonetization phase, the drop in thespot over the past two days cleared the 66.0 level in a decisive way not witnessed since 2015, and caused an uptick in...
Russia and Iran's growing cooperation hints at a new Middle East
Mar 27, 2017 09:20 am UTC| Insights & Views
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, will meet for the eighth time in four years from March 27 to 29. According to the Tehran Times, both sides are preparing more than ten documents...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects