FxWirePro: Easing USD/JPY short gamma risk with leverage
Jan 16, 2017 10:13 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
A trade on a buy-and-hold logic is designed in USDJPY. It shorts volatility but should suffer from initial negative convexity. Selling the expensive volatility to trade a gradual move Uncertainty is not going to lift...
Jan 16, 2017 07:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
General business situation Business confidence strengthened in the September quarter to the highest level since early 2014. This improvement was well-founded, with September quarter GDP showing that quarterly growth...
McDonald's has been forced to make a U-turn on battery eggs. Here's how
Jan 16, 2017 04:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
South Africans have been known to be an activist bunch in recent times there have been a number of high profile campaigns, often with varying degrees of success. These include the #feesmustfall protests against high...
New index of economic marginalisation helps explain Trump, Brexit and alt.right
Jan 14, 2017 07:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
If 2016 brought Brexit, Donald Trump and a backlash against cosmopolitan visions of globalisation and society, the great fear for 2017 is further shocks from right-wing populists like Geert Wilders in Holland and Marine Le...
Plough on or change to win? Theresa Mays progressive dilemma
Jan 14, 2017 03:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Modern British history tells us that when a government minister becomes prime minister between elections, rather than by winning one, they confront a strategic political and ideological balancing act. They must...
How to reclaim identity politics as a positive political force
Jan 14, 2017 03:19 am UTC| Insights & Views
Identity has been one of the most decisive and divisive political phenomena of the past 12 months. A particular understanding of national identity provided a focus for discontent with the EU ahead of the UKs Brexit...
The fake news that changed the course of Roman history
Jan 13, 2017 15:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The papers and social media are today full of claims of fake news; back and forth the accusations fly that one side of the political divide in the US has been filling the world with lies in order to discredit the other. We...
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