Jun 29, 2016 11:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The leading investment banks have many reasons to worry ahead of 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, thats when the U.K. could complete its retreat from the European Union formalities, potentially revealing the full scope of...
FxWirePro: EUR/GBP 1w IVs still the best trading bets and risk reversal favours option straps
Jun 29, 2016 09:28 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Please observe in the above nutshell showing IV shifts on alower side but still above 15% that shows the intensity in hedging activities. And the sensitivity tool evidences the efficiency of the options strategy as to...
FxWirePro: FxWirePro: Rosy time for AUD/NZD strangle shorts for certain yields
Jun 29, 2016 05:56 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
AUD/NZD IVs keeps option writers on upper hand. The implied volatilities of ATM contracts of all expiries have been the one of the least among G10 currency segment, 1W expiries flashes below 8.8%. In AUDNZD FX options...
Coalition likely to win following Brexit
Jun 28, 2016 20:49 pm UTC| Politics Insights & Views
The UKs vote to leave the European Union (Brexit) was known by the afternoon of the 24 June Melbourne time. The ReachTEL and Galaxy polls in the table were both taken entirely before the Brexit result was known. The one...
Berlin Biennale: genius or the luxury bleating of the youthful super-elite?
Jun 28, 2016 20:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
The Berlin Biennale is an event which encompasses the whole city. The venues are pieces of art in themselves: the former headquarters of the East German Council (ESMT) is a confident, brutalist sixties building, now an...
What Germany wants – as diplomacy over Brexit begins
Jun 28, 2016 20:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Greece, the refugee crisis, and now Brexit. The German Foreign Offices first reaction the day after the UKs vote to leave the EU in a referendum came in the form of a tweet: We are off now to an Irish pub to get...
It's time for the 'science of sensibility' to return
Jun 28, 2016 20:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
What is beauty in art? Why can art move us emotionally? How do our minds and bodies respond to art? These and other questions, some linked to what we now call aesthetics, occupied some of the greatest minds of 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