FxWirePro: Hedge AUD/USD puzzling swings via “DDPS” on bearish-neutral RR ahead of RBA
Jul 29, 2016 08:04 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
AUDUSD delta risk reversals indicate bearish-neutral sentiments in FX OTC markets as there is no hedging interest seen in near terms (see for 1W expiries) but this has again shown in favour of bearish interests as the...
Get ready for the Aussie dollar to fall
Jul 29, 2016 08:01 am UTC| Insights & Views
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...
Crippling rural debt looms as biggest threat to our beef producers
Jul 29, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Economy
What will happen now that the rains have come to many parched beef lands of Queensland? Current high cattle prices and renewed pastures suggest optimism, even good times. Perhaps record exports from the worlds largest beef...
Worth a thousand words – how photos shape attitudes to refugees
Jul 29, 2016 07:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Over the last two decades we have seen the unprecedented politicisation of immigration. Many Australians remember the wave of immigration after World War II when our rapidly developing industrialised economy addressed its...
Jul 29, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The Antipodes (Australian and New Zealand dollars) rose against their U.S. counterpart on Thursday and gains extended even during early hours of today, after the Federal Reserves decision to leave its monetary policy...
Being transgender is not a mental illness, and the WHO should acknowledge this
Jul 29, 2016 07:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced it may no longer classify being transgender as a disorder in the revised version of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), due for release in 2018. The ICD...
PC report on industry assistance needs to go beyond just reporting costs
Jul 29, 2016 07:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
The recently released Productivity Commission (PC) Trade Assistance Review is a competent and thorough estimate of the costs of industry assistance. But missing, as always, are estimates of their benefits. To be fair, the...
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