Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach
Oct 18, 2016 00:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
Australias mandatory detention of young people offshore, as part of its asylum-seeker policies, has been frequently cited as evidence of a failure to ensure childrens rights. However, two new reports, from the ABCs Four...
FxWirePro: EUR/USD forward vols appears to be cheapest among G10 FX pool – Uphold 6m FVAs
Oct 17, 2016 12:47 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
According to current market pricing, EURUSD has the cheapest forward volatility on both the 6m6m and 1y1y tenors (see above histograms). From the vol study, it is reckoned that it seems to be a good entry point to buy...
FxWirePro: What does UK BoP imply for sterling in conjunction with post-brexit scenario?
Oct 17, 2016 12:22 pm UTC| Economy Insights & Views
No doubt, the spotlight for investors in euro area and in the UK is progressively more on the post-Brexit destination for the economy, not so much the starting point for this journey, hence GBP has decoupled from the data...
BoE MPC’s Forbes makes hawkish comments
Oct 17, 2016 11:58 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The Bank of England MPC member Kristin Forbes said that inflation will likely overshoot its 2 percent target, maybe sharply, over the next couple of years, adding that the feed-through of inflation from the GBP exchange...
Oct 14, 2016 12:54 pm UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
Silver falls tracking gold but in a more volatile fashion Silver prices tracked gold lower but slumped much more dramatically given its illiquid nature to register a fall of more than 5% on Tuesday, trading at its lowest...
Market pricing for RBNZ November OCR cut firms ahead of Q3 CPI print
Oct 14, 2016 11:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) stood pat at its monetary policy meeting in September, leaving the OCR unchanged at 2.00 percent. In the statement that followed, the RBNZ acknowledged the economic developments since...
Why is ZAR making headline on FxWirePro with bearish tone?
Oct 14, 2016 09:58 am UTC| Economy Insights & Views
Umpteen number of reasons why we are bearish on ZAR, in outright trades, we are long USDZAR and short ZAR/RUB. Following the peak in political tensions in the second half of August, political noise has subsided and the...
Why spending time and money creating TikToks probably won’t pay off for Labour and Conservatives