How to calculate the economic impact of grief
Jan 10, 2017 13:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The death of a child is one of the most traumatic experiences that a parent can experience. Those who do experience it can struggle to recover. Child loss leads to intense grief and depression. Many affected parents state...
BoE to look through inflation rise, could react if slowdown proves more modest than expected
Jan 10, 2017 11:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Incoming economic data in UK do not support the view of an uncertainty driven slowdown in the aftermath of the EU referendum. UK economy expanded at 0.6 percent q/q in Q3 2016, the first full post-referendum quarter. The...
Jan 10, 2017 09:55 am UTC| Insights & Views
The situation as regards inflation has improved notably in Norway over the past few months. The rate of inflation has eased from 4.4% in the summer to only 3.5% recently. However, we are unable to sound the all-clear....
FxWirePro: Is EUR/JPY skews mispriced? Vol smile opportunities in EUR/USD and USD/JPY
Jan 10, 2017 07:30 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The volatility smile most often signifies that traders are willing to pay higher implied volatility prices as the strike price grows aggressively out of the money. Among G3 FX volatility space, EURJPY 3m-6m risk...
Jan 10, 2017 07:11 am UTC| Central Banks Commentary Economy Insights & Views
Indias inflation continued to remain subdued during the month of November, exerting deeper pressure on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to undertake easing policy in the next 2-day bi-monthly monetary policy scheduled to be...
FxWirePro: What’s buzzing in EUR/JPY IVs - Smart trades to short rich skews
Jan 10, 2017 06:02 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The EURJPY volatility surface is currently offering very attractive shorting opportunities, as ATM volatility is rich and 6m/1y skews are excessively priced. Here, we recommend a couple of trades taking advantage of both...
Feeling so emotional: why we rage about religion on Facebook
Jan 09, 2017 23:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
On Christmas Day, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his website to tell the world that he was not an atheist any more. In this way, the billionaire used Facebook to express his feelings about religion, like many social...
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