Jan 09, 2017 03:37 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Moodys Investors Service and its Indian affiliate, ICRA Limited, see subdued prospects for Indias banks, with both identifying asset deterioration as a key challenge over the medium term. Asset quality will remain a...
Jan 06, 2017 13:50 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The stats were bullish for crude and bearish for products across the board. US crude imports dropped by nearly 1 Mb/d, as fog on the US Gulf Coast restricted tanker arrivals; this drove the large and temporarily bullish...
Jan 06, 2017 12:30 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The continuous flurry of bearish of streaks in USDCNH in the past two days has finally come into a pause this morning while USDCNY fixing rate was lowered by almost 1%, USDCNH spiked up by about 0.5%, narrowing CNY-CNH...
FxWirePro: Positioning key EUR option trades to monitor IV skews amid Eurozone macros
Jan 06, 2017 12:15 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Although the bearish swings in themajor trend of EURJPY seemto be threatening, you observe range bounded trend has been persisting from last fortnight or so (upper range at 124.0940 and lower range at 121.600...
Jan 06, 2017 10:36 am UTC| Research & Analysis
The November US labour market report sent mixed messages. Payrolls growth was largely as expected, and close to the monthly average for 2016, at 178k. However, the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 4.6%, the lowest...
Construction in Iraq - Key Trends and Opportunities to 2020
Jan 06, 2017 08:41 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Synopsis The construction industry in Iraq has suffered greatly from the countrys dire security situation and weak investor confidence, as well as a decline in government spending owing to the sharp drop in oil prices...
Jan 06, 2017 07:32 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks
The U.S. currency has surged since the election, partly in anticipation of fiscal policies under the incoming Trump administration. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, which measures the greenback against 10 global...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight