The four best cities in the world ... according to the experts

Apr 20, 2018 05:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

More and more people are moving into cities. As growing populations place pressure on urban housing, infrastructure and transport systems, residents, planners and politicians are having to come up with clever solutions to...

Vital Signs Series

The calm before the storm in US-China trade

Apr 20, 2018 05:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

This week: the US administration continues its anti-trade rhetoric, China grows a little faster than expected, Australian employment figures underwhelm, and the RBA seems unperturbed by household borrowing...

FxWirePro: USD/HKD technicals with early signals of weakness on interventions of HKMA, whipsaws, and hanging indicate dips - Add protective delta put to hedge

Apr 19, 2018 14:13 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views Technicals

The HKMA upsized its intervention, and bought HKD17.6bn (USD2.2bn) over the past 24 hours, with total volume touching HKD51.3bn (USD6.5bn). USDHKD, however, has been hovering around 7.8495, still quite close to its...

FxWirePro: Gamma spreads striking chords on lingering robust equities and CHF liquidation flows

Apr 19, 2018 13:15 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

With the movement of the underlying spot FX, someone has to change the price of the delta as the option moves from ATM to OTM and then back to ATM to ITM. Well, on the pool of FX gamma that we like owning is AUDCHF...

Has Bitcoin dust settled? Minor trend seems constructive, intermediate trend yet to confirm – FxWirePro prefers CME BTFs

Apr 19, 2018 12:32 pm UTC| Digital Currency Research & Analysis Insights & Views

On daily plotting, BTCUSD was sliding through sloping channel, but bulls, for now, has managed to havebroken out the channel resistance. Strong support was taken at $6,408 levels. Ever since then bulls have held very...

FxWirePro: EUR/JPY OTC bids and hedging frameworks – RVs, delta puts and risk reversal trades

Apr 19, 2018 11:32 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

The neutral-negative risk reversal numbers are still indicating hedging sentiments for the potential bearish risks across all tenors remain intact, while positively skewed IVs of the 3m tenorshavent changed from the last...

FxWirePro: A glance at VXY - Gamma ownership appears to be more prudent vehicle than Vega

Apr 19, 2018 10:22 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

FX vols steered another week of tepid price action seemingly bulletproof to any and all shocks ranging from trade sanctions to a blow-up in a heavily owned large EM currency (Russia). VXY Global has now retraced...