In Sudan, movies made by researchers change the way people see female genital cutting
Jan 09, 2017 23:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Female genital cutting and the international response surrounding the practice represent incompatible cultures coming together in a shrinking world. According to UNICEF, in 2016, an estimated 200 million girls and women...
FxWirePro: GBP options and swap trades on mixed bag of UK data and looming harder Brexit
Jan 09, 2017 13:06 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The general perception is that FX markets have seen a higher number of extreme events in 2015-2016. This includes an unusual number of flash crashes such as in Octoberwhen GBPUSD collapsed by 6% in the space of a few...
MNB likely to maintain accommodative policy stance, EUR-HUF likely at 315.00 over the coming quarter
Jan 09, 2017 11:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Following two months of decline, Hungarian industrial production growth returned to positive in November. However, growth was capped at just 0.6 percent, in both adjusted and non-adjusted terms, data from the statistics...
FxWirePro: Has the Brexit dust settled? Is Cable slump poised?
Jan 09, 2017 10:54 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
After Brexit apprehensions, GBPUSD recoupled with short-term rates, which are unlikely to trend in H117. The Brexit formalities would not be softbut seems unlikely to bring in large surprises or any dramatic movements in...
FxWirePro: Could you envisage on Chinese capital outflow through Bitcoin amid Yuan depreciation?
Jan 09, 2017 09:23 am UTC| Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
Ever since CNY devaluation in Aug 2015, the spot rally received help from a high-side USDCNY fixing last year that propelled USDCNH to new YTD highs beyond 7 and carried the rest of the Asian bloc with it. The hawkish tone...
Uncertainty in blood supply chains creating challenges for industry
Jan 09, 2017 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
When we talk about supply chains, we may conjure up images of manufacturing plants, warehouses, trucks and shipping docks. There is another, truly unique supply chain for a product vitally important to health care and...
Winning over Congress' key members would spell legislative victory for President Trump
Jan 09, 2017 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Will a Republican Congress grant President Donald Trump a path to easily confirming his nominees and turning his campaign promises into law? Not necessarily. The history of congressional-presidential relations suggests...
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