Aug 16, 2016 07:45 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Lets have a glance on OTC market arrangements for hedging the uncertainty in this pair: The delta risk reversal for USDJPY in long-term indicates more bearish pressures in FX option markets. What we could infer from...
Theresa May has a golden opportunity to make devolution work – but it must be progressive
Aug 14, 2016 04:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Since Theresa May took office as prime minister of the UK in July there has been a great deal of speculation about how if at all powers over tax rates and local spending will be devolved to local authorities, as promised...
In the Margins of Philosophy; Plato to Footnotes
Aug 14, 2016 04:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Footnotes to Plato 2017 will mark fifty years since French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derridas golden year of 1967. In that year, the classic studies Speech and Phenomena, Writing and Difference, and Of Grammatology...
AI can excel at medical diagnosis, but the harder task is to win hearts and minds first
Aug 13, 2016 11:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Science
Scientists in Japan reportedly saved a womans life by applying artificial intelligence to help them diagnose a rare form of cancer. Faced with a 60-year-old woman whose cancer diagnosis was unresponsive to treatment, they...
Capitalism and Democracy [part 4]
Aug 13, 2016 11:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics
Earlier parts of this series on capitalism and democracy raised questions about the tense and often contradictory relationship between capitalist markets and the egalitarian spirit and power-humbling institutions of...
Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
Aug 13, 2016 11:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics
Part two of this series on capitalism and democracy introduced the unfamiliar idea of democracy failure. Instead of seeing democracy as the hapless victim of capitalist markets, as Marxists and others have typically done...
Capitalism and Democracy [part 2]
Aug 13, 2016 11:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
Part one of this series on capitalism and democracy probed the famous remark of the American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen that there are historical moments when democratic sovereignty is converted into a...
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