Why is the US Green Party so irrelevant?
Oct 18, 2016 05:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Many Americans value environmental protection and want to see more of it. But Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, is drawing only 1 to 3 percent in recent polls, even in an election where many voters...
How does Obama's use of unilateral powers compare to other presidents?
Oct 18, 2016 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
During a 2008 town hall event, then Senator Barack Obama told the audience that as a legal scholar and teacher, he took the Constitution very seriously. He went on to criticize the Bush administration, asserting: The...
Crown employee arrests show danger of assumptions about China
Oct 18, 2016 05:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The arrest of several Australian and non-Australian Crown Resorts employees is a stark example of how foreign businesses arent always successful in navigating a system where the rule of law doesnt apply. Its impossible to...
What the presidential candidates' data can tell us about Trump and Clinton
Oct 18, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Its election season, and the candidates and campaigns eyes are on you, the voter. Figuring out what you think about something a candidate said last night or tweeted this morning is very big business. All this gathering of...
Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach
Oct 18, 2016 00:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
Australias mandatory detention of young people offshore, as part of its asylum-seeker policies, has been frequently cited as evidence of a failure to ensure childrens rights. However, two new reports, from the ABCs Four...
FxWirePro: EUR/USD forward vols appears to be cheapest among G10 FX pool – Uphold 6m FVAs
Oct 17, 2016 12:47 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
According to current market pricing, EURUSD has the cheapest forward volatility on both the 6m6m and 1y1y tenors (see above histograms). From the vol study, it is reckoned that it seems to be a good entry point to buy...
FxWirePro: What does UK BoP imply for sterling in conjunction with post-brexit scenario?
Oct 17, 2016 12:22 pm UTC| Economy Insights & Views
No doubt, the spotlight for investors in euro area and in the UK is progressively more on the post-Brexit destination for the economy, not so much the starting point for this journey, hence GBP has decoupled from the data...
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