Sterling against few majors shrugs off growth, Does BoE factor in Q2 GDP for rate cuts?
Jul 27, 2016 12:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
GBP crosses seem to have neglected the British GDP data which is better than expected, actual 0.6% versus forecasts at 0.5% and previous 0.4%. GBP versus a few major G10 currencies are losing after better than expected...
FxWirePro: Is it RBA or BoJ, short-term foreign traders to stay hedged in AUD/JPY EXIM bills
Jul 27, 2016 10:19 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The Australian inflation data for Q2 provided a considerable dampener for the rate cut speculation this morning. The inflation measure preferred by the Australian central bank (RBA), the trimmed mean, remained...
CCTV: who can watch whom under the law?
Jul 27, 2016 09:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In the past few days, CCTV footage has been at the centre of two major news stories. The first, at the Northern Territorys Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, showed the shocking treatment meted out to juvenile detainees...
Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
Jul 27, 2016 09:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge thousands of academics and deans from office. In a crackdown that rapidly spread across civil and...
Turkey mends fences with Israel and Russia – thawing two of its frostiest relationships
Jul 27, 2016 09:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
Turkeys tough and outspoken government has lately made a habit of digging in its heels when it comes to diplomatic conflict, even with some of its most crucial allies. But over just a couple of days at the end of June, its...
Dopey policy: is the IOC fit for purpose?
Jul 27, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The scandal of systematic doping orchestrated by Russian government agencies and the Russian anti-doping body (RUSADA), involving the disposal of thousands of biological samples or their replacement with clean urine, has...
The science behind Hillary Clinton's problems with trust
Jul 27, 2016 07:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Large swaths of the American public want Donald J. Trump to be their president maybe even a majority, according to an analysis from Nate Silvers FiveThirtyEight in late July. Many people Democrats and Republicans...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects