Aug 11, 2016 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views
German industrial production missed the forecasts to disappoint the analysts in Eurozone, actual 0.8% versus forecasts at 0.9%. Germany posted EUR 21.7 billion trade surplus in July of 2016 against forecasts at 23.2B as...
Unexpected spike in Norway inflation reduces chances of a rate cut in September
Aug 11, 2016 11:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
Norways core inflation surged to record highs in July, dampening Norges Banks rate cut speculation. Norways core inflation, as measured by the CPI-ATE unexpectedly surged to 3.7 percent y/y in July, up from 3.0 percent in...
Aug 11, 2016 10:00 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
PBoCs interventions to depreciate CNY seems to be successful as the Chinese central bank (PBoC) continues to weaken its currency via the fixing, the fixing rates are generally in line with what the fixing model suggests so...
How to stop the world's 3.1 billion young people being left behind
Aug 11, 2016 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
There are more young people in the world than ever before. While some see the planets 3.1 billion under 25-year-olds as a threat, others see the true potential of this demographic dividend. On International Youth Day on...
Ausgrid: electricity decision fails to shock
Aug 11, 2016 08:26 am UTC| Insights & Views
Poor Scott Morrison. Public policy storms dont get more perfect than this. Nor are they generally quite as revealing of the increasingly complex environment in which policies are made these days. The decision to reject...
Aug 11, 2016 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
Gold should rally towards $1400 as the US Fed is unlikely to hike this year especially after the Brexit votes. Copper is likely to underperform on rising supply and the slowdown in China. We foresee according to Chinese...
Aug 11, 2016 07:18 am UTC| Insights & Views
Yesterday, in our technical write up we stated that the stiff resistance at 0.9552, now see the bull-swings that have rejected at the same levels once again after RBNZs OCR cut to keep it at 2.00%. Please refer below...
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