Mar 02, 2016 12:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The pair rallied from yesterdays lows of 73.947 to todays highs of 75.920 levels.That is where it has rejected the resistance and now struggling to hold onto the current levels of 75.527 also. In this process, it has...
A demand-driven rise in oil price broadly good for global growth
Mar 02, 2016 12:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Speculative investors are growing bullish in oil, anticipating an improved supply-demand balance, but it is highly questionable whether this would even be possible in 2016 without some associated cutback in supply. It will...
Mar 02, 2016 11:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
After soft industrial production data for January, now inflation for south Korea is lined up tomorrow to disturb KRW.Output declined by a seasonally adjusted 1.8% MoM in January, a relatively sharp turn from Decembers 0.5%...
Mar 02, 2016 10:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
In Turkey, the inflation in February is expected to accelerate to 9.8% YoY terms, it is scheduled to be printed on Thursday.Inflation expectations remain de-anchored as a result of the CBTs reactive policy stance and...
RBA on hold, robust Q4 growth cushions Aussie dollar
Mar 02, 2016 10:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
Real GDP growth was a solid 0.6% q/q (not annualised) in 4Q15, following 1.1% (revised up from 0.9%) in the previous quarter. Once again, growth was driven by consumption, thanks to supportive labour market conditions and...
Chief Scientist's address to the National Press Club: The voyage of science and innovation
Mar 02, 2016 09:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Below is a transcript of the speech given by Australias Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO, at the National Press Club on 2nd March 2016. Lessons from a lost ship Let me start with a story about a small nation with...
How the political crises of the modern Muslim world created the climate for Islamic State
Mar 02, 2016 02:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Harith Bin Ramli, Research Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London How do we account for forces and events that paved the way for the emergence of Islamic State? Our series on the...
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