FxWirePro: Driving forces of Asian growth in 2017 - Option trading radar in Asian EMFX pool
Feb 28, 2017 10:41 am UTC| Economy Insights & Views
Asia focus: 2017 growth drivers: With GDP growth for the final quarter of 2016 rolling in from around the region. As per the JPMs projections, EM Asia GDP grew 5.8% in 2016, in line with their expectations at the beginning...
Feb 28, 2017 09:35 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
We expect depreciation pressures on the Renminbi would return over the medium-term. Although the slower capital outflows may persist in the very near-term, the downside risk in the medium-term comes from the private...
FxWirePro: Does BoE equate Brexit politics? Stop paying in 10Y GBP versus USD swaps
Feb 28, 2017 07:21 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
GBP has been choppy but trendless this year on a messy interplay between Brexit politics and BoE expectations. Hopes that deterioration in the growth-inflation trade-off might prompt a rate hike as early as the end of this...
Gambling lobby gives big to political parties, and names names
Feb 28, 2017 07:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Politics
The gambling industry declared A$1,294,501 in donations to Australian political parties in 2015-16. Our analysis of the latest Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) donation disclosures shows various branches of the...
Push for longer hours makes headlines, but more Australians want to work less
Feb 28, 2017 07:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) abandoned plans requiring its staff to work 37.5 hours per week following an employee backlash. This would have been an increase of 45 minutes per week, or nine minutes per day, over whats...
Feb 28, 2017 07:13 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
Treasury yields have remained stuck in the same range they have held since early December, even as equities have continued to rise and are now up 5% YTD (refer above diagram). In the recent times, UST yields initially rose...
Warnings over wine prices are enough to make you hit the bottle
Feb 28, 2017 07:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
As uncertainty over the Brexit effect continues, every line of business seems to have its own brand of questions about the future. And maybe it was a coincidence that shortly after the end of that driest of months,...
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