Why it's important to understand social media's dark history
Jun 28, 2017 03:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
It was in April 2016 that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media platform was providing its nearly two billion users the opportunity to livestream content. The move was viewed as a natural...
Behind Modi: The growing influence of the India lobby
Jun 28, 2017 03:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
One has 32.9 million Twitter followers; the other has 31 million. When U.S. President Donald Trump met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on June 26, Trump chose to draw attention to something the...
Jun 27, 2017 13:17 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
In EM, we remain MW FX overall and neutral in LATAM and EMEA, with small OW in EM Asia. We hold relative value long TRYZAR, and stay UW RUB vs OW TRY The bearish stance on BRL relative to the rest of the EM FX complex...
Jun 27, 2017 12:39 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
Thedollar index (DXY) was pulled back (-0.54% at the time of articulating) after a steady start to the week by a weaker than expected reading for durable goods orders amid fresh uncertainty surrounding the Feds tightening...
Riksbank likely to brush aside strong economy, to stay sidelined at July meet
Jun 27, 2017 12:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Riksbank (Swedens central bank) meets on July 4th to decide monetary policy and we believe there is unlikely to be any change in either interest rates or forward guidance. The Riksbank is likely to look through strong...
Jun 27, 2017 12:09 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
In this write-up, we emphasize that EUR-cross vols and correlations should cool as data and price momentum rotates away from the Euro. Buy EURUSD vs. EURPLN vol spreads and sell EURNOK EURSEK correlations. The summer...
Jun 27, 2017 11:21 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
CAD investors are torn between two opposing scenarios: on the one hand the Canadian economy has overcome the collapse of the oil price in 2014/2015 and is recording decent growth rates once again, and as a result signals...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects