Why we need to take Jeremy Corbyn's earnings cap idea more seriously
Jan 12, 2017 14:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
When Jeremy Corbyn floated the idea of a cap on high earnings in his first big speech of 2017, the Labour Party leader ran into hot water and quickly expanded the idea, mentioning other methods of curbing excessive pay. He...
How timekeeping software helps companies nickel and dime their workers
Jan 12, 2017 14:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your hours after you log out of your workstation. You might assume those hours are simply converted into dollars and show up on your...
Jan 12, 2017 12:39 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The acceleration in global growth towards 3% might even cause us to entertain the notion of adding some outright longs in cyclical currencies. What prevents us doing so is the caveat that these are not normal times...
Jan 12, 2017 12:22 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The cheapness of CNH risk-reversals relative to implied yields is also plumbing a historical extreme (refer above chart), as gauged by the carry-neutralizing forward delta-hedge ratio (the notional of short USDCNH forward...
Italy's Nov industry output beats expectations, signals possible acceleration in economic activity
Jan 12, 2017 12:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Italian industrial production rose 0.7 percent month-over-month in November, beating median forecast in Reuters poll for a 0.3 percent gain, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Thursday. Data compared to a revised...
Jan 12, 2017 11:42 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The carry trade looks far more lucrative in a non-dollar CNH cross such as EURCNH. The carry/vol setup is comparable to USDCNH (refer above chart), with the added attraction that the cross is that it is better insulated...
Free college explained in a global context
Jan 12, 2017 08:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently pledged to make undergraduate education at the the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University of New York (SUNY) system free for families making less than...
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