FxWirePro: What is pushing NZD lower in H1 2016 – NZD hedging ideas
Jan 26, 2016 14:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We see a return to the bad old days of large current account deficits, which will be a headwind to NZD even if the RBNZ have reached the trough for the monetary policy cycle.Preservation of solid domestic demand growth...
Struggling Kiwis diary industry leads to current account deficit in 2016
Jan 26, 2016 12:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Dairy prices have been tumbling since early 2014, a well appreciated negative for the trade terms and nominal GDP growth. After a 60% fall, outcomes in dairy auctions have become more balanced in recent months. But given...
Blockchain could challenge the accepted ways we shape and manage society
Jan 26, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Digital Currency
In only a few years, digital currency bitcoin has emerged from the shadows to become something debated by politicians and pondered by economists. Now it is blockchain, the technology that makes bitcoin possible, that is...
The problem with human head transplants
Jan 26, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In a 1978 essay, titled Where Am I?, the philosopher Daniel Dennett suggested that the brain was the only organ of which its better to be a transplant donor than recipient. Now Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero wants to...
CNY’s liquidity conditions likely to remain tight before the Chinese New Year
Jan 26, 2016 11:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
PBoCs internal meeting minutes recommended that Chinas January new loans are likely to surpass 2 trillion CNY, a record high, as compared with 1.47 trillion CNY in January 2015. Increased onshore borrowing has strengthened...
Trump's rhetoric may topple adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity
Jan 26, 2016 11:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Is there such a thing as bad publicity? Donald Trumps campaign appears to be a test case in whether this old adage is true or not. His business interests are intricately linked to the Trump brand, which has been taking...
Poor and homeless face discrimination under America's flawed housing voucher system
Jan 26, 2016 11:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
From the time she left foster care at age 18 until her late 20s, Carly was homeless, staying at shelters or couch-surfing with acquaintances in the Boston area. In August 2014 she finally got an apartment with the help...
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
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