Strikes against Syria: Did Trump need permission from Congress?
Apr 08, 2017 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield in response to a Syrian chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians raises important questions. Does the president have, or should he have, the...
FxWirePro: Intricacies of European derivatives and valuation arguments of Bund Swap spread
Apr 07, 2017 13:12 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The ECB rhetoric has reduced expectation of an early ECB lift off but the EONIA market is still pricing 10bp of tightening by Jun18. Over the past week, swap spreads narrowed at the front while Bund and Buxl widened...
Apr 07, 2017 12:55 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The bullion market prices surged as news of US airstrikes against Syriaboosted demand for safe-haven assets, gold to five-month highs on Friday, while the silver futures for May delivery jumped 1% to $18.428 a troy...
Apr 07, 2017 10:47 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the market slightly yesterday by hiking the reverse repo rate and raising the inflation outlook slightly for FY2017-2018. The benchmark repo was left unchanged at...
FxWirePro: Prefer USD/MXN gamma neutral calendar skews on carry-to-vols ratio and Banxico hikes
Apr 07, 2017 09:43 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Banxico hiked 25bp; we see limited MXN gains but prefer calendar skews at the current juncture. Banxico has hiked its policy rate 25bp to 6.5% and signaled a shift in gears towards a slower pace of tightening...
With Syria missile strikes, Trump turns from non-intervention to waging war
Apr 07, 2017 08:51 am UTC| Insights & Views
The United States unilateral missile strikes against a Syrian airforce base are a dramatic escalation of its participation in that countrys civil war. The US government has attacked a Syrian government asset for the first...
Will the US missile strike be the turning point in Syria's shifting war?
Apr 07, 2017 08:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
The US has hit the Syrian airbase used to launch this weeks suspected sarin gas attack against Khan Sheikhun that killed more than 80 civilians. US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited the...
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