FxWirePro: Commodity price outlook propels AUD/USD projections but China still a hindrance

Oct 11, 2017 09:35 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

Revising up RBA forecasts and in turn revise and AUDUSD projections on a brighter commodity price outlook and monetary policy stability in 2018. We still expect AUDUSD to decline modestly over the year ahead. However,...

FxWirePro: Hedge AUD/USD risks via Theta short/Vega longs in Reverse Put Spreads to sync with bullish/bearish scenarios and OTC indications

Oct 11, 2017 07:05 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

The bearish AUDUSD scenario below 0.75 if: 1) The unemployment rate moves back towards 6%, forcing the RBA to respond more aggressively to weak inflation; 2) The Fed responds to firm labor market outcomes and...

FxWirePro: AUD/USD bears back in action, major trend acts as per FxWirePro’s whims and fancy popping up with shooting star to drift back in range

Oct 11, 2017 06:06 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views

Shooting star pattern candles have occurred at 0.8051 and again at 0.8033 levels on AUDUSD peaks of rallies (refer daily chart). The same pattern has occurred at 0.7825 levels on monthly terms Consequently, the bears...

Economist who helped behavioral 'nudges' go mainstream wins Nobel

Oct 10, 2017 14:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The 2017 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to University of Chicagos Richard Thaler for his work in behavioral economics, which is the integration of economics with psychology. While the award was not a total...

How the coffee industry is about to get roasted by climate change

Oct 10, 2017 13:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Fall is always a good time to create new habits, and coffee chains know it. These days, they are desperately trying to find any excuse to get you to drink their java. Many chains used National or International Coffee...

When VR meets reality – how live concerts could be enhanced by 21st-century opera glasses

Oct 10, 2017 13:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

What do Coldplay, Stevie Wonder and the Imagine Dragons all have in common? The answer, and well done if you got this right, is that they have all had recent live shows broadcast in virtual reality. Music fans with VR...

New 'race disparity audit' means little unless we consider where people live

Oct 10, 2017 13:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In an attempt to challenge the disparities in the way people from different backgrounds are treated in Britain, the government has launched a race disparity audit. A new website called Ethnicity Facts and Figures presents...