FxWirePro: Bearish GBP basket via shorts in cable spot trades and long 2m EUR/GBP call spread
Mar 24, 2017 10:01 am UTC| Central Banks Research & Analysis Insights & Views
This write up emphasizes on the prevailing shorts in GBP and those who squared off lets reopen a bearish basket (stay short cable in cash, buy a 2-m EURGBP call spread), we bought cable two weeks ago as this was the most...
How science is helping the police search for bodies in water
Mar 24, 2017 07:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Science Law
Police divers have started searching a canal in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, hoping to find the remains of schoolgirl Moira Anderson who disappeared, suspected murdered, in 1957. The operation follows an investigation by...
BBC 'Brexit bias' claims need to be based on hard evidence
Mar 24, 2017 07:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The recent letter to the BBC by a group of MPs accusing it of anti-Brexit bias looks like the latest attempt by politicians and press magnates to intimidate the public broadcaster. The letter complains that the BBC has,...
How the courts gave us EU citizenship, and how Britons can keep it after Brexit
Mar 24, 2017 07:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
One of the most keenly fought battles in the run-up to Britains exit from the European Union has been over the existence and nature of citizenship. EU nationals in the UK have become bargaining chips before negotiations...
FBI's Russia probe threatens a reckoning for team Trump
Mar 24, 2017 07:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
So now we know: the FBI has for months been investigating not only Russian interference in the US presidential election, but also Russian contacts with members of the Trump campaign team. Its scope includes the possibility...
As the European Union celebrates 60 years, can Asia use it as a model for economic integration?
Mar 24, 2017 07:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
On 25 March 2017, the European Unions heads of state and government will meet in Rome to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European project. The date marks the signing of the Treaties of Rome, which established the...
FxWirePro: Directional optionality and cash trades on interest rate differentials
Mar 24, 2017 07:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
We stay short GBPUSD because interest rate based valuations are even more stretched than USDCAD (we expect BoE hawks to be caged by an economy that is finally starting to cool), but once again reduce the directionality to...
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