Can low doses of chemicals affect your health? A new report weighs the evidence

Aug 21, 2017 13:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Toxicologys founding father, Paracelsus, is famous for proclaiming that the dose makes the poison. This phrase represents a pillar of traditional toxicology: Essentially, chemicals are harmful only at high enough...

Hundreds of languages are spoken in the UK, but this isn't always reflected in the classroom

Aug 21, 2017 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views

More than 300 different languages are now spoken in British schools. And in England, over 20% of primary school children use English as an additional language. This equates to over 900,000 children for whom English is...

We don't want AI that can understand us – we'd only end up arguing

Aug 21, 2017 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Forget the Turing test. Computing pioneer Alan Turings most pertinent thoughts on machine intelligence come from a neglected paragraph of the same paper that first proposed his famous test for whether a computer could be...

FxWirePro: American-Chinese Trade tariff - Hedge against short dollar/long carry portfolio and earlier slowdown in Chinese growth

Aug 21, 2017 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views

There has been the dual piece of news about China over the past weekend. One is that the US formally launched a trade investigation on Chinas intellectual property practices, under so-called Section 301, which could take...

FxWirePro: Asian equity investment space lures but mounting North Korean risks lurk, Why to hedge against prevailing risk?

Aug 21, 2017 12:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views

In this write-up, we focused on a few markets in the Asia equity space to hedge against the North Korea risk. Contemplating what if the North Korea rigidities transform into a military clash? As a result, all equity...

FxWirePro: Hedge EUR/CAD puzzling swings via diagonal call ratio spread on BoC monetary policy

Aug 21, 2017 12:11 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

A reassessment of BoCs policy path will likely take time, and only after a second hike (expected October) is delivered, fully unwinding the 50bp of emergency cuts delivered in 2015 (hikes whose motivation seems more...

FxWirePro: Which FX theme could beat inflationary pressures and global economic crisis?

Aug 21, 2017 11:12 am UTC| Digital Currency Insights & Views

Bitcoin bounced back above $4,000 mark a coin against the dollar just at around 11:00 am GMT. But, prior to the rally, the cryptocurrency has slumped slightly below $4,000 area. As per few analysts reports, skepticism...