With tanks, grenades and guns, police wage war on Rio de Janeiro's poorest
Apr 07, 2017 08:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
On March 25 2017, two professors from Rio de Janeiros Federal University accompanied a group of 13 students from the School of Social Work to visit the location of their upcoming internship: Casa das Mulheres da...
It was Big Tobacco, not Trump, that wrote the post-truth rule book
Apr 07, 2017 08:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
(Corrected typo on seventh paragraph) After two chaotic months as president, Donald Trump is widely credited with rewriting the political rule book. We are witnessing Trumps new era of post-fact politics, where...
FxWirePro: Stay short EUR/CZK on CNB’s macro projection
Apr 07, 2017 07:16 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
EURCZK spot and forward exchange rates as well as Czech interest rates went through huge volatility yesterday after the Czech National Bank ended its EURCZK floor mechanism at an extraordinary board meeting. The EURCZK...
FxWirePro: Bullish SEK against EUR covered put and NZD vanilla put
Apr 06, 2017 13:13 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
SEK has been one of the underperformers in G10 this week, weakening in sympathy with EUR. There isnt an immediately identifiable catalyst for the underperformance, although wage negotiations yielded an outcome that was...
FxWirePro: What drives loonie’s vulnerability - Stay short CAD vs AUD and USD
Apr 06, 2017 12:57 pm UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The monetary policy divergences driving USDCAD sharply higher the past two weeks were only half surprising. To be sure, the recent sharp rise in US yields driven by hawkish Fed speech came as a surprise to markets. The...
Apr 06, 2017 12:51 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
OTC outlook: Please be noted that it seems to be ideal time for the writers of overpriced call options as you could observe the negative shift in risk reversal flashes in 1m tenors, whereas we see neutral changes to the...
Bank of England likely to hold rates well into 2018 and probably beyond - Rabobank
Apr 06, 2017 11:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Despite signs of a slight slowdown, UK economic growth has held up much better than expected since the Brexit referendum. The PMIs for manufacturing, construction and services published this week suggest Britains economy...
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