New globalism: a counterculture that could redraw the world map
Jan 07, 2017 01:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
For the past few decades, globalisation has been the status-quo. Advancements in communication and transport technology have made the world far smaller than it once was, and governments and businesses everywhere have long...
Nokia had the world's best smartphone – then came the 'inferior' iPhone
Jan 07, 2017 01:25 am UTC| Technology Insights & Views
Ten years ago, anyone who wanted the latest and best smartphone was excited about the Nokia N95. Launched at the Nokia Open Studio in September 2006, it was trumpeted as the all-in-one multimedia computer and went on to...
Jan 06, 2017 13:50 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The stats were bullish for crude and bearish for products across the board. US crude imports dropped by nearly 1 Mb/d, as fog on the US Gulf Coast restricted tanker arrivals; this drove the large and temporarily bullish...
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...
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