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FxWirePro: A tour on Fed/BoE/ECB/BoJ/RBA - Dollar futures trade positive amid monetary policy season but weakness on cards

Jun 18, 2019 11:37 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks

Majority of the dollar pairs are trading little positive momentarily ahead of monetary policy season. Front-end month contracts of US dollar futures are trading at $97.050 levels. But the intermediate trend seems to be...

FxWirePro: A run through USD/JPY options strategy ahead of Fed and BoJ monetary policies

Jun 18, 2019 09:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks

The Fed meeting starts today but the decision will not be announced until tomorrow evening. Ahead of that May US data for housing starts and building permits will provide updates on what is a particular interest rate...

Digital Currency Revolution Series: Constructive News Flow Propels Bitcoin's Bullish Sentiment, BTC/USD Surpasses 9.4k

Jun 18, 2019 07:57 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Technicals

The Bitcoin price surged from the lows of $3,128 in last December to the recent highs of $9,475 levels, up almost more than 124 percent against the U.S. dollar, within a span of 6 and a half months (from December18 and...

FxWirePro: A run through on US treasury and Bullion market, OTC updates and hedging strategies

Jun 14, 2019 14:42 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks

Gold(often perceived as a safe-haven) has extended recent gains and is on the verge of approaching its 3-year range highs. The US equities remain in a holding pattern near their recovery highs, just under all-time highs in...

Trend of Tokenization Series: A Glance Through IEO at Tokinex

Jun 14, 2019 11:31 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

An IEO replaces initial coin offering (ICO) in which a centralized exchange is responsible for vetting the token projects andinvestors, and then subsequently conducting the initial sale of the token. And Bitfinexs IEO of...

Blockchain Revolution Series: Yet Another Canadian Institute Announces Blockchain-Based Diploma Training

Jun 14, 2019 11:01 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

Very recently, Canadian-basedUniversityof British Columbia (UBC)announcedablockchaintechnologytraining program for masters and Ph.D. aspirants. The training methodology is reportedlydesignedtothe fabric at competitive...

FxWirePro: Snippets of USDJPY OTC market and options strategy ahead of Fed and BoJ

Jun 14, 2019 08:50 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks

The JPY appreciation was notable in the latter half of the month, mainly due to deterioration in risk sentiments as concerns for an escalation of trade wars between the US and China strengthened. USDJPY fell below...

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Economy

The US is one of the least trade-oriented countries in the world – despite laying the groundwork for today’s globalized system

Given the spate of news about international trade lately, Americans might be surprised to learn that the U.S. isnt very dependent on it. Indeed, looking at trade as a percentage of gross domestic product a metric...

Beyond the spin, beyond the handouts, here’s how to get a handle on what’s really happening on budget night

Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, TV or news websites on budget night. The quickest way to find out what...

Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility

Ivan Vladislavić is Johannesburgs literary linkman. He tells us, in the first pages of his new book, The Near North, that before cities were lit, first by gaslight and later electricity, people of means paid torchbearers...

Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget

With Jim Chalmerss third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief beyond the tax cuts although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As this weeks consumer price...

Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI

Australias inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and its now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. The annual rate peaked at 7.8% in the December quarter of 2022 and is now just 3.6%, in...

Politics

South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...

Sadiq Khan on track for third term as London mayor – but nearly half of Londoners dissatisfied with performance

Polls have consistently shown that the incumbent mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, appears to be on track to win a third term in office at the upcoming mayoral elections on May 2. One poll we commissioned as part of our...

Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’

Most American workers are hired at will: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship except earned wages, and employees are at liberty to quit at their option. As the rule is generally stated, either party...

Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board

To say that the Labour party is flying high in the polls is something of an understatement. But despite its consistent lead against the Tories, the opposition finds itself in a rather odd position: on the cusp of power but...

Science

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these relic neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they cant harm you. In fact, only one of them is...

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...

A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars

While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, Nasas Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to...

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth – and governments are on the hook

A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a mans home in Florida. Nasa later confirmed that the object had come from unwanted hardware released from the international space station. The 700g,...

Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, has died aged 94. He was always a modest man, especially when considering that he was one of the greats of particle physics the area of...

Technology

World's Largest Electric Container Ship Sets Sail with 50,000 kWh Battery Power

COSCO Shipping, a Chinese state-owned firm, has unveiled what it calls the worlds largest river-to-sea electric container vessel. The Green Water 01 is a 10,000-ton+ electric vessel that sets a new standard for...

Tesla Drivers Get $4k Off 2024 Chevy Blazer EV; Costco Auto Slashes Prices on New EVs

Tesla owners rejoice as Chevrolet rolls out an unprecedented $4,000 discount on the 2024 Blazer EV, open to Tesla drivers and a quirky list of EV owners. The electric vehicle market got more enticing with incentives...

Tesla Granted South Korean Emission Credit Trading Rights by Environmental Ministry

Ministry of Environments green light for Tesla to trade emission credits in South Korea marks a significant milestone, enabling the electric car giant to tap into a potentially lucrative market. With estimated credits...

US Lawmakers Push SEC for Bitcoin Options Trading Approval

In a bipartisan effort, US Representatives Mike Flood and Wiley Nickel have penned a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, urging swift action in approving options trading for Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs). Amid...
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