Jan 06, 2017 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Commentary
J. Christopher Giancarlo, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with close ties to the derivatives industry, is President-elect Donald Trumps top choice to head the U.S.s main swaps regulator, a person...
Jan 06, 2017 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Denmark is set to extend economic recovery for the fifth consecutive year. Recovery in the Nordic nation has been relatively moderate till now. But there is more distinct possibility of a more robust recovery on robust...
Jan 06, 2017 12:30 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The continuous flurry of bearish of streaks in USDCNH in the past two days has finally come into a pause this morning while USDCNY fixing rate was lowered by almost 1%, USDCNH spiked up by about 0.5%, narrowing CNY-CNH...
Is the US really ready to end its drug war?
Jan 06, 2017 09:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In recent years an international movement to reform global narcotics policies has been growing, with activists and presidents alike declaring that the United States war on drugs has failed. Now it seems the US has finally...
How ride-hailing apps like Uber continue cab industry's history of racial discrimination
Jan 06, 2017 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
From hailing taxis that wont stop for them to being forced to ride at the back of buses, African-Americans have long endured discrimination within the transportation industry. Many have hoped the emergence of a...
Why is it so hard to close the racial health gap in the US?
Jan 06, 2017 05:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The racial health gap in the United States is well-documented. The gap starts with the infant mortality rate (11.1 blacks vs. 5.1 whites per 1,000) and extends to almost any health domain. Compared to whites, blacks live...
Five reasons why the North Dakota pipeline fight will continue in 2017
Jan 06, 2017 04:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
In December 2016, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) denied an easement that would have permitted the company Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) to complete one of the final segments of the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline...
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