Corporate-style regulation of unions won't defeat corruption
Jan 08, 2016 00:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Commissioner Dyson Heydons 79 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance represent a steamroller approach to industrial democracy and basic human rights, such as the right to collectively bargain...
Jan 07, 2016 13:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We think this is nothing but demand supply equation seems heading a rampant, as per the US department of energy, demand during end of 2015 was weaker than at any time in more than ten years, and was 9.3% down on the YoY...
Driving forces of crude inventory - WTI slips below $33/brl to hit multi-year lows
Jan 07, 2016 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
We think this is nothing but demand supply equation seems heading a rampant, as per the US department of energy, demand during end of 2015 was weaker than at any time in more than ten years, and was 9.3% down on the YoY...
Instability rocks China; will it create ripple effects across markets?
Jan 07, 2016 11:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
The health of the Chinese economy has resurfaced as a key concern as we head into 2016, extending a major blow to the markets already rattled by geopolitical tensions stemming from Saudi-Iran tensions and North Koreas...
A year after Charlie Hebdo, France is still searching for answers
Jan 07, 2016 10:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
France has had a tumultuous time in the year since two brothers opened fire in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11, before going on to murder another five people in Paris. Just ten months later, the...
Jan 07, 2016 08:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Technicals
We reckon that the USDCNY exchange rate determination will indeed mirror an increasing reference to the NEER currency basket even if the PBoC has not explicitly committed to this. The central bank set the yuans official...
Jan 07, 2016 06:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
The pair took supports at channel base line at 127.020 to form a bottom on daily terms. It is breaking resistance at 129.667 levels also on weekly terms.But this should not be deemed as trend reversal, so there may be...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects