May 15, 2024 07:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
There are 8.5 million households in the UK who own a home with a residential mortgage, often with fixed interest rates from two to five years. Usually, when that mortgage deal ends, the borrower will move to another deal...
Weather risk can move markets months in advance
May 15, 2024 07:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing
To understand how important weather and climate risks are to the economy, watch investors. New research shows that two long-range seasonal weather forecasts in particular can move the stock market in interesting...
From Barbie to Thomas the Tank Engine: How entertainment brands are adapting to Generation Alpha
May 15, 2024 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Business
Growing up, did you play with hyper-sexualized Barbie dolls, boys-only Thomas the Tank Engine trains, or slim, white Disney princesses? If so, youre not alone, but this is no longer the case for Generation Alpha. Brands...
Green industry yes, conservation no: a budget for people, not for nature
May 15, 2024 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Last nights budget is another missed opportunity to arrest the poor and deteriorating state of the Australian environment. Subsidising green industry in Labors Future Made in Australia policy may offer economic...
A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’
May 15, 2024 07:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Over the weekend, Queensland University of Technology PhD student Xiaolong Zhu became national news and not for a good reason. Zhu is a Chinese citizen, and his visa to study in Australia has been denied on the grounds of...
The 2023 Sir Paul Curran award for academic journalism goes to Barbara Sahakian
May 15, 2024 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge and author of Bad Moves and Sex, Lies, Brain Scans, has spent her academic career finding out what makes us tick. If youve ever...
Protecting wildlife begins with understanding how best to counter wildlife crimes
May 15, 2024 07:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Global biodiversity is declining, and human activities are mainly to blame. Indeed, 96 per cent of the worlds total remaining mammalian biomass the combined weight, or mass, of mammal organic life consists of either...
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