
Oct 13, 2016 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
As expected by markets the RBA held interest rates at 1.5 percent at its October monetary policy meeting and refrained from adopting an explicit easing bias. Having eased monetary policy at its May and August meetings, the...

Prexit: as South Africa looks over the abyss who will blink?
Oct 13, 2016 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
Like the lemming that is about to throw itself off the proverbial cliff, South Africa appears unable to stop itself from preventing a self-inflicted act of such monumental folly that it could easily send Africas second...

Turkey's great challenge: integrating 2.7 million Syrian refugees
Oct 13, 2016 08:08 am UTC| Insights & Views
Since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria, millions have fled across the border to Turkey. Turkeys open-door migration policy has seen the number of registered Syrians in Turkey reach 2,730,000. This has led to rapid...
How to help Haitians recover from the mental trauma of Hurricane Matthew
Oct 13, 2016 07:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Hurricane Matthew has left hundreds dead in Haiti. Winds of more than 200km per hour have totally devastated cities and towns across the southern peninsula of the tiny nation. For me, pictures showing the levels of...
Oct 12, 2016 13:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Strong August data in the Czech Republic are likely insufficient to prevent a slowdown in Q316 GDP growth. A strong batch of August data likely will be insufficient to prevent a deceleration in Q316 GDP growth, with...

FxWirePro: BRICS FX pack stands out in high beta segment owing to potential Trumps presidency
Oct 12, 2016 12:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Commentary
More uncertainty What Mr Trump was saying and doing revealed a character and temperament unfit for the leader of the free world, Mitt Romney, 28 May, Wall St Journal above and beyond concerns about the specific policies...

Little probability of rate cut from Bank of Thailand this year
Oct 12, 2016 12:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Economy
Bank of Thailand (BoT) has kept its interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent since June 2015. The central bank is more inclined to maintaining loose monetary conditions via a weaker THB rather than lower rates. And with two...