How Kanye West and Adidas are conquering the millennial market
Sep 27, 2016 13:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
The word drop is now firmly lodged in my vocabulary after another day spent with a millennial waiting for a brand to release (or drop) its latest product. It involved watching the clock tick down to the moment of release,...
What is the Medical Technology Association and how does it wield its power?
Sep 27, 2016 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
If your health practitioner has used a syringe, tongue depressor (to look at your throat), pacemaker, stethoscope, X-ray or MRI scan, blood test, dental filling or joint implant to treat you, youve encountered a product...
A deal with Mclaren would see Apple shift up a gear on car ambitions
Sep 27, 2016 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
British supercar maker McLaren may be denying that it is in talks with Apple about a potential tie-up, but the firm cant deny that the idea actually makes some sense. Apple has long been rumoured to be working on its...
Sep 27, 2016 11:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of Australia is scheduled to announce its monetary policy decision on 4th October. It will be new Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowes first RBA board meeting as governor. The RBA will release its second...
FxWirePro: What drives you writing overstated NZD/JPY ATM calls?
Sep 27, 2016 07:03 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
1w ATM calls of this pair are trading 29% more than NPV. 1w ATM implied volatilities are at 12.19%. Standard deviation of this call options 1.6 Hence, we see there exist disparity between IVs and option...
Sep 26, 2016 13:27 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
EURJPY IVs of 1w tenors have reduced to below 9.5% after BOJs shift in its monetary policy stance, while risk reversals still indicate the bearish hedging sentiments in the FX OTC markets. From these risk reversal...
Riksbank could start to remove negative rates in late 2017
Sep 26, 2016 12:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
At its latest monetary policy meeting on September 7th, the Swedens central bank left the repo rate unchanged at minus 0.50 percent and said to continue to purchase government bonds in the second half of 2016. The Riksbank...
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